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I moved - and now have a roommate. Working retail during the holiday season means I have no life until January inventory. With that coming next weekend, it means I can get a semblance of a routine back down again. And maybe this creativity dry spell can get moistened. Moistened. Moist: how I hate that word.

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I keep finding photos taken of me at pride over the weekend.

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I was in Orlando Saturday, in my first-ever pride event, volunteering with my job. It was a huge amount of fun and there was so, so much eyecandy to be had/seen there. This was photographed as I walked past in the parade.

And yes, I did carry a carriage parasol the whole day.

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Favorite painting by a favorite artist.

Paul Cadmus:  Gilding the Acrobats (1935) via Terminartors

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Something I made today, which may be the most ridiculous thing I've made for myself: A leather cuff bracelet covered in scallop-pinked black silk taffeta and bead-embroidered with French Jet and red coral. The hook-and-eye closure is hidden by a faux bow, which took a bit to figure out, and until then the silk was just all hanging down being very Adam Ant-esque, when I was going more for a leather-daddy-meets-Godey's-Ladies'-Book kind of look. So now it's more what I was going for, now that it's all figured out.

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So recently, I've been doing some sketches for a potential project for a local store that is owned by a couple who I dearly love - this one was one of my favorites. Their store is a midcentury modern store, and we share a love of Catherineholm enamelware, so naturally all the sketches are like, all involving Catherineholm stuff and motives.

So this is like  a solar system thing. I normally don't go for "cute," but I liked this.

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Crappy photos of what has to be my best thrift shop find ever: a René Lalique "Chicorée No 1" bowl, ca 1921. Found at a Goodwill store for $1.99 - it's chipped, but it's still Lalique. The cashier ringing it up asked "Did you see the chips on this?" (there are two, sadly, but again, whatever. It's still Lalique!) and my response was, "Yes, but I also saw the mark in the middle."

It just makes me really happy - I'd have never imagined I'd own a piece of Lalique glass - especially an antique one.

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A favorite farmhouse of mine in rural north-central Ohio, if I remember correctly - Such gorgeous drip moldings around the windows and cresting too. I love it - and want it all.

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Want. So, so bad.

The finest #boater I’ve ever bought. New vintage inspired design from Sarah Havens in New Bedford MA. #perfectproportions #hatlove

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Reposting this somewhat old sketch. It's a favorite of mine, but it relates to a project I've had going for a very long time that's kind of revived itself as of late, and I had to refer back to this, and it made me think how much I liked this one.

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So I have this lovely lamp for my apartment now.

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Walker Evans, United States Hotel, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1931

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I have a Very Important Houseguest arriving about three hours. He will be staying for a week - and I've gotten the apartment looking it's best it's ever looked - so much so that I wanted to document it for posterity.

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Bone-handled carriage parasol with silk brocade cover, and sewn-on fringe, ca 1855-1860.

So happy to see this project done and back in the hands of its very happy owner. I was very very much pleased to see how this one turned out, after the many challenges it presented over the course of its restoration from a bare frame with rib tip problems and a dud rib, to a fully-functional, relined and recovered piece.

And one nice thing about having this done is that I can do non-parasol related things like drawing again - guiltlessly. Heh,

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Henry Samary, Louis Anquetin, 1880.

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Protect and Survive, 1880s version.

Just missing drawing again.