Dark & Dusty Things...

Hello Lovelies~

I hope you are all doing well! Things here are so busy and good I'm about to burst. To start, I went to my local library's annual used book sale and I scored some great books. With all the big box book stores going out of business and people either not reading anymore, or reading on a Kindle or other device, it's refreshing to go into a hushed, musty old library and dig through real books. The book I'm most excited about is the copy of This Perfect Day by Ira Levin I found. I have never seen this title by him, but I loved Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby, so I'm sure this will also be wonderful. I also found some old James Bond VHS tapes that I bought as well. (I have an old player, and I hate to see them get trashed.) Plus, You Only Live Twice was in there, one of my favorites!

And have you ever seen one of these, Lovelies? I thought it was a perfume bottle. It's much more interesting than that. I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Blood Milk, and she had one too. Apparently, during the Victorian Era, people in mourning carried Lacrymatory bottles, a glass vessel that was used for collecting tears shed during the grieving period. This typically lasted one year and some bottles were fitted with a special stopper that would allow for the tears to evaporate over time. Others, preserved the tears to later be spilled over the grave of the dearly departed once the mourning period had ended. So amazing and macabre and I have one! Take a look:

And going from one interest of mine to another, I found a great photographer on Etsy who specializes in creating miniature tableaus using mixed perspective. (You know I'm a sucker for miniature people.) His shop, Un Petit Monde, is very sweet. Take a look!

I'm going to wrap up with another great shot that I thought you would appreciate as much as I did. I think from the costume, this is Batgirl? Does such a thing exist? And if so, was she part of the original TV show? Regardless, the bright colors and the campy style of the photo are right down my alley, and look very similar to my work, in fact. Who is your favorite TV superhero?

And where did she find shoes to match that ensemble???

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...

Happy Haulidays!

Hello Lovelies~

A brief post to give you the good and the bad news. Bad news: I didn't win the Chronicle Book Giveaway I posted about last week. Boo.

The good news is, for readers of this blog, Chronicle is taking 35% off your order + free shipping through December 16, 2010! Use the promo code HAULIDAYS at checkout! So go forth and buy books my friends, Stapelia is looking out for your as usual. :)

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...

Books, Buttons & Random Musings...

Hello Lovelies!

So it's been busy as usual over here in the mill. I have been featured in a couple of beautiful treasuries and one of my circus photos was listed on Indie Spotting! Aren't these treasuries nice?

My7Kids Treasury

UrbanLotusBoutique Treasury

I have also created some fun little buttons for Twitter and Facebook that I'm using on the my blog because nothing fit my personality out there. Feel free to use these buttons on your own sites if they work for you, my treat!

If you're a book dork like I am, you get excited when the local library has its annual book sale. My library usually has a pretty good selection of fiction and medical books (because no one else wants medical books; I use the images for collage/drawing) and this year I was not disappointed. You can see my stash below... all for $9.50 thank you very much! I think my best 2 finds were an original printing of Stepford Wives (I also have an original Rosemary's Baby by the same author) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea because really, can you have too many printings of this book? I think not.

Oh! And have I discovered a wonderful seller on Etsy my Dearies. Babayagada has some amazing original illustrations straight from Israel. They're all beautiful and whimsical and the colors are great too. The one below is entitled Old Master. Check out this shop!

Let's wrap with a movie review, shall we? If you haven't seen the movie Popcorn, you're really missing out and I'm (somewhat) serious this time. I went in expecting total camp and I got a lot of camp, some creepy and some neat vintage movie props that I wanted to buy and put in my house. The basic plot revolves around a group of young folk who revitalize an old theater to have a movie marathon for some reason. Of course during the marathon, people get wacked and someone starts shooting a horror movie in real life. But there are some twists that make this a respectable flick and it stars Dee Wallace (star of Cujo, The Frighteners, and ET to name a few). She can't act but she's sort of hot and she's in everything so I've learned to live with her. Check it out!

I have a friend visiting next week so I won't be posting for awhile. Be good in my absence!

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...