When real things happen to imaginary people

Apparently a lot of you folks say I should sell that particular stripey blazer. Heh. Some of you suggested taking fabric markers and coloring in between alternating black stripes, thus creating wide black stripes. I do like that idea. However, the Stroppy One suggested I do that with my pink fabric markers, which would give me a pink and white striped jacket with black details. I will wear the blazer in its current incarnation when we go run errands tomorrow, and ponder this idea. But feel free to tell the Stroppy One he's brilliant!

I will wear the blazer in its current incarnation when we go run errands tomorrow

(staxxy, no sequins. No. That feels too ... costume-y, for me.)

I no longer have the urge to drill a hole in my skull to release the pressure of the migraine, which is a VAST improvement over yesterday. Also, the mutterings of the low self-esteem monsters have (mostly) dwindled away, thank goodness. So thank you to everyone who gave me kind words and clicky-links of distraction yesterday!

Hey, let's talk about ridiculous furniture coveting! Look at this antique couch on Etsy! (clicky-link!)



I covet that like MAD. kambriel said she would want to lounge around on it while wearing a deep red velvet dress. I said I wanted to lounge around on it wearing a black velvet military-styled jacket and bustle skirt, with pink details.

And while I'm on the topic of ridiculous coveting: I posted a photo of my dream boots on my Tumblr stream today. Boots that I probably couldn't walk in, are discontinued, and impossible to find. But MY GOODNESS, they're pretty.



Yes, I would wear them with the aforementioned black velvet military-styled jacket and bustle skirt with pink details, while sitting on the fabulous black-and-white striped couch. With a glass of absinthe. What? A girl can dream, can't she?

Vampire Ball 2009, showing off the outfit that was made for me by Katie of Dark Industries. Taken by mineke

This week has been ... eh. Not great. And the next few weeks are going to involve me being patient, which is not something I'm at all good at. (If you listen closely, you can hear stroppy_baggage and caliban1227 laughing at that understatement.) So! Today I dressed to amuse myself even more than I normally do. Yes, today is when I give thanks for the software industry's lack of a dress code.

( SFDs! Black and pink, of course. )

In other Shallow Fashion News, Shoutfit is still down. There's a part of me that wonders if it's down deliberately. The assorted things I've found online about the start of Shoutfit suggest that the people behind it were hoping to be absorbed/purchased by one of the big fashion media publishers; the Shoutfit userbase becoming increasingly weighted with Goths, Steampunks, and other fans of non-mainstream and DIY looks probably worried them. But it's only a small part of me that is dabbling with that conspiracy theory; there's no need to line hats with tinfoil yet.