happiness

inspiration wall #2

here is another shot. over the years, I found sliced leather goods. two are expandable bags from thrift stores and there is a hanging planter from a sidewalk sale. I recently found this cardboard bit sliced up that is used for packing. (it was from some old samples my husband had) that dome is totally cool with a deer in the foreground. maybe you can see the bit of caning from an old table of mine. and the other cardboard white bit that was used to separate small containers. oh, yea, there is some sea something in there, too. I like the textures. there is also a picture of the early humans from a magazine. I think that is hiroshi sugimoto. loved his exhibition at the deyoung. the ocean shots were amazing. an irving penn still life. and the smoking skull is from the van gogh show that was at the LACMA. I am so glad I have a wall to put all my stuff up. get it up and out of the way so I can actually see it.

OBAMA!!!

very excited about our new president.  he has a lot of work ahead of him.  watched the inauguration proceedings.  very glad to see that asshole cheney leave.  I think he was even worse than that spoiled brat, loser bush.  good riddance, greedy war-mongers.

shoes-gucci

I have a thing for shoes. and I bought a lot of them in the 90s, during the dot.com boom here in SF. nieman marcus would always have such a great sale. and then you pick out a whole bunch and they tell you that they can hold them for you, because they are going on sale even more in a few days. sure! I love to save more money. that seems like such a long time ago.

nowadays, having two children and trying to get my jewelry line going, I don't buy new shoes too much. I almost always buy my new pairs of shoes from gimme shoes. I did get those dries van noten shoes from their warehouse sale. I will show you those another time. I already need to get them re-heeled, though, so they are hanging out at my studio. gorgeousness. like a glove.
the only other shoes that I buy are from thrift stores. my favorites are thrift town, the salvation army on geary (which I just recently discovered, since it is so close to my therapist's office) and there is always goodwill.
lately, I have pulled out some shoes from the past. I just try to make them work with the rest of my fashion.
I love these gucci shoes so much. they are so hot! really 90s, though, sort of dominatrix. steel heel. so tough. uber-sexy! enough said.

inspiration wall

here is an image from my studio wall.
see, I already had a ruth asawa postcard up there.

art and inspiration

went to the academy of science today with my friend robert. I like to think of him as my music mentor. we did have loads of fun and saw lots of amazing bands playing live. the first xmas he knew me, he gave me 10 cassette tapes with bands I needed to know. I actually ended up making 4 mixed tapes from those tapes for some halloween party one year. the music was hard and a bit scary. good times. so, today, we checked out the 3D Bugs movie which I tried to bring my kids to after school. why don't they want to do the fun stuff? I didn't force them, after all, I already saw it today. they are like that with the beach too. anyway, we also went to the living roof, saw most of the enormous aquarium, then the planetarium. the albino alligator was missing though. we had enough time to see the african hall and the rainforest too. we did a lot. but that's not all. we went across the way to the deyoung to see the yves saint laurent show after that. there was a lot of fashion. some of it was definitely crazy. but you need to respect it. I mean, the 80's and 90's were a bit crazy when you look back on it. all that beading shit. ugh. that was a trend. maya lin also had some landscapes which were interesting. I had forgotten the ruth asawa pieces near the tower. love them! those are some of my favorites. the shadows and the simplicity are beautiful.

the new year

having lots of fun since new year's eve and beyond. and of course, before that! went to damon and suzy's for the ringing in of the new year. and made rich drive me over to erik's after that. 2am. so, I was a little freaked out when I got my glass of champagne, took a sip and proceeded to spray it all over everyone in my close proximity. I didn't understand. days later, erik pointed out to me that if I drink bubbly stuff and start shaking my head, it will explode. ok. good. I didn't think I was that out of control! sure, I drank a bit of champagne that evening and I didn't drink enough water through the night. I did have fun and len was so sweet and sober to give leigh and myself a ride home at 4.
january 2 was my mom and dad's 50th anniversary! wow. there were some times I didn't think it would last. but they did. and they are quite happy now. probably because my dad can barely hear, so he can just ignore her sometimes. maybe.
worked hard doing hair for two days. and then today I went to the alameda flea market to buy some supplies for my upcoming trunk show. it had been raining for some of the last markets, and I haven't been in, oh, maybe 10 years. it was ok. a lot of untangling of chain. was it really worth it? we'll see. maybe there was some inspiration picked up along the way. there usually is.