Found Drawings

One of the dreamiest things I can think of finding tucked in between the deteriorating pages of an old book is a little drawing. There's something really special about finding an old doodle by some kid or little sketches drawn inside some girl's elementary school notebook. So far I've only found one doodle hidden inside an old book I've found, and it is already framed and hanging on my wall! But, I was browsing through the photostream of the always incredible Swapatorium2 and discovered a whole set of found drawings and doodles. I can't even imagine stumbling upon half of these! They make my heart beat a little faster!


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All photos from Swapatorium2 ! More can be found in the set here

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Old Horror Films!

When I got the TCM "Now Playing" guide in the mail for October I knew right away what I'd be doing for Halloween. Old horror films are the greatest and it seemed like the perfect excuse to watch a ridiculous amount of them in a row--I even got Kat in on it! I've been recording all of the old scary movies on TCM this month that sounded good (basically all of them) and tomorrow Kat and I are going to have a marathon!

First off, it wouldn't be a good horror film marathon without a Peter Lorre film! This one's from 1935 and is about a mad doctor who "grafts the hands of a murderer on to a concert pianist's wrists." Murders in the Zoo is from 1933 and is about a crazed zoologist that "uses animals to dispose of his wife's suitors." (Oh dear, and look at that lady's outfit! She looks perfect in every which way!)


The House on the Haunted Hill wasn't actually on TCM, I don't think, but it's one of my most favorites so I had to include it anyway! And then I'm really excited about The Unknown because it's directed by Tod Browning, who did Freaks. It's about this escaped killer who fakes being a side-show's armless wonder. If it's anything like Freaks, I'm sure it'll be really good!

The Mystery of the Wax Museum, from 1933, sounds especially creepy: "a disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues." Plus, it has Glenda Farrell in it! Then I guess I kind of cheated, because I watched The Old Dark House tonight as a sort of pre-marathon warm up and let me tell you, it was so good! It's from 1932 and these people get stuck in a storm so they ask to stay inside this strange house where the people there are crazy and one of them is locked in a room because he wants to set the house on fire. It's good, I promise!

Alright, I can't wait! I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween!

Most of the information about the films was taken from the TCM "Now Playing" guide.
All photos found via Google Images.

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Fallin' Leaves

Plaid '70s shirt- vintage, from Liebemarlene Vintage on Ebay
Jumper- vintage, from Sally Jane Vintage on Etsy
Headband and tights- Urban Outfitters
Purse- vintage, thrifted Coach
Oxford flats- Jeffrey Campbell


There's this road that I take nearly everyday that goes past the reservoir then goes practically inside of the forest (it sounds a whole lot more obscure than it actually is). This past week was especially wonderful because as I drove through I was literally enveloped by all of the different colored trees and leaves. I've been waiting for a while for them to finally change, because when they do--boy oh boy! It really is the loveliest! There have been hints of color here and there, but it has only been in the past week or so that the trees have completely changed color. The sad part is, the leaves are already beginning to fall! Just a few days after that one drive last week I took the same route and the area seemed to have lost some of its color and effect. So, I wanted to get some pictures with the beautiful trees around here before the leaves really begin to fall!


All photos by Kat! Thank you!!

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Frankie: The Photo Album!

I've been super excited about the Frankie Photo Album ever since I found out about it. The book is really wonderful and has the loveliest photographs...but what I've been most excited about is that one of the photos in the book is taken by my best friend Katherine, of me! I'm especially proud of her--she really deserves it! All of her photography is gorgeous and inspiring. It's also really nice that it is from something we did together...which probably sounds corny, but true!

You can check out Katherine's other incredible photos on her flickr here!

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Blogger Meet-Up With Rhiannon of Liebemarlene Vintage!

Photo by Drew, and jazzed up by Kat!

When Rhiannon contacted me about meeting up in New York last Sunday since she was going to be there for a wedding and I live nearby I was super excited. Not to sound corny, but I sort of didn't feel like it was going to happen; that whole "too good to be true syndrome." Well, it did happen, and I still almost feel like it didn't for that same reason! It's funny, I thought I was going to be all sorts of awkward and nervous when I met her but the whole time it felt like we'd hung out a million times before and were old pals. Drew was awesome, too! He was really nice, and funny and didn't make me feel awkward one bit!

We walked (in the colldd and I was dumb and only wore a cardigan!) to a vintage store that I'd been to a few times before when I've gone into the city and we both sort of half-ran over to the '20s, '30s, and '40s section. Of course, everything was ridiculously overpriced, but the dresses were still fun to see! Rhiannon spotted this adorable little pink floral '20s dress, and and few other dresses that reminded us of something out of a Busby Berkely musical, and I spotted a couple perfect little feed sack dresses that made me sad the price tags weren't just mean jokes. Since we couldn't buy anything we decided to secretly try on some dresses and take illegal pictures while Drew sort of unintentionally distracted the mean faced employee who just decided to sit down and chat with him. Rhiannon also found this incredible Biba-esque '60s dress that looked as sweet as can be on her--too bad it was $250 on sale!! After we broke enough store rules we ran outta there and went on a hunt for food.


I had planned to take them to this cute little cafe, but of course it was closed when we got there. So, we ended up getting soup, chips, sandwiches, and hot food at a Whole Foods and snuck inside a nearby Jamba Juice to eat at one of their tables. We got to chat lots while we were there about blogging--of course--and catch up on all sorts of other things. Then we went to Borders, which is sort of a favorite place among all of us, and Drew found the newest Lula for me with his super-magical-Lula Magazine-finding-powers!

I hadn't really checked the time while we were together because I figured if I pretended we still had plenty of time to hang out that we would, but of course that wasn't the case! We ran to catch my bus, which I didn't make, so instead we took a whole bunch of silly photos while we waited for the next one. Once it was time to actually go it really was the worst and I wish I had missed my bus again! And the one after that, too.

Photo by Drew, and jazzed up by Kat!

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Some Kind of Old Fashioned Oddity

A little bit ago I mentioned I might maybe post some of my collages and mixed media work. Welll, I brought up the guts to do it! Mixed media collaging is really my most favorite thing to do and medium to work with. I love finding and searching for all of the old and strange images I use in my artwork. I'm always on the hunt for old books and photos at antique stores and thrift stores. I especially love finding little things like receipts, labels, antique lace, tags, and funny illustrations. This particular series is of a book that I made called "Some Kind of Old Fashioned Oddity." It's one of my favorite little creations!

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Lake George

I know I've been the worst of bloggers lately, but the past couple of weeks have been the busiest! It should get a bit better by next week, hopefully, so I should be posting a bit more often then I have been! I just caught up with all of the comments and I have a whole bunch of outfit posts, but the weather's been so awful (it snowed yesterday!) that I haven't been able to really take any nice photos. But, I did promise I'd post these photos from my trip to Lake George this past summer with my best friend, Katherine!


The photos of us where it's all misty and there are a bunch of trees are on top of this hugggee hill that we had to drive a long ways up to. It's called "The Top O' the World" which I thought was pretty funny...it really is gorgeous up there, though! Ooh, and the House of Frankenstein!! Katherine and I gathered up enough courage to go inside and we were practically hugging each other the whole time--it was pitch black and there were these different areas you went though with different interactive displays and what-not and a black hole! We bought this duel package to go down the street to "Dr. Morbid's" (haha yes.) where people jump out at you and scream at you and-well-let's just say my nerves were shot by the end of it!


At some really junky (in a bad way) tourist trap of a gift shop with things like plastic snakes and funny plush hats shaped like birds and milk cartons. Oh dear.

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