...for now I'll just dream I was sitting here with these guys...
Thursday, April 12, 2012
dream of the 90s...
...because I just can't stop watching every movie that Ethan Hawke made in the 90s. Those movies are seriously the greatest! Come on...you know you love Reality Bites. How could you not? Oh and Christian Slater...Pump Up The Volume holds a special place in my soul, for sure. Also my playlists are so full of Pulp, Blur and Belle & Sebastian that hardly any new music can infiltrate it! Okay, what year is it? 2012? I'll join you guys soon...
Monday, April 9, 2012
April Giveaway! *CLOSED*
Guess what guys?! I'll be posting a fun giveaway for you all to enter once a month!This month, the winner will receive a Spring heart garland handmade by me with vintage fabric. I just love these heart garlands! Over windows, doorways, book shelves, as a bundle hung on a door knob.... There are more of them for sale in the PiccadillyLilly shops, too.
The lucky winner will also receive this metal flower necklace and the cutest little buttons ever! These items are from Fuego. Fuego has become one of my very favorite shops since moving to Washington. Aside from being full of tons of pretty curiosities, it also employs some of the sweetest ladies around!
*There are 2 ways to enter*
1. Become a follower of this blog (via Google or email- both can be found in the sidebar) and leave a comment telling me you've done so.
-AND/OR-
2. Since not everyone has GoogleFriendConnect. Follow me on Instagram and leave another comment telling me you've done so.Username: piccadillylilly
*If you are able and willing to follow me on both, then that's 2 comments and 2 entries for you!*
I'll post the winner of this giveaway at the end of the month, along with a new giveaway for May! The giveaways are just going to get better so please be nice and don't follow then unfollow later...it makes the centaurs in the forest very sad.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Writing too much...
Have I told you yet that I, in true catastrophe waitress form, broke my most beloved heart shaped ceramic baking dish?
I can't tell you how many vegan chocolate cakes that heart and mine created together. (Here it is in all it's glory) Ah...so today I went in search of a new one because a square shaped one just won't do.
In my quest, I "just happened" to find myself across the street from Jo Ann Fabrics.
Lately I have made a point to stop by and take a look around. I don't always buy fabric, but I do love walking through all the pretty colors and patterns for inspiration. Also, for the last few months I've made a special visit to this Singer beauty I posted many weeks back.
I say "hello" to it, I thread the needle, the sweet ladies let me demo the stitches, it (apparently) stars in my phone photos; but am I ever going to spend the MSRP of $599.99 on it? Oh heck no!! Why would I? I mean sure, my machine looks like a joke in comparison to this glorious machine, but it gets the job done.
Oh, but today... today I walked by and a very tiny sign was taped onto the top of the machine. Not a big, flashy sale sign just a white piece of paper with a new price typed on it. A new price that would only last for so long. A new price that meant I could possibly hope again! Almost half off and then some because the box of the only one in stock had been opened, but the machine untouched.
Today I took a leap of faith. No. Not a leap. I freaking pole vaulted. I went completely old school and put it on lay away. Youheard read me.
I would never put something on lay away and I would never advise anyone else to do it either. If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. Sorry, if it's that or food? Food wins, but there are rare things that you have to claim before they pass you by and to me, this was it. I never saw this Singer as just another object, another sewing machine. It has been that which I've lusted over, but realized it will never be. Like an afternoon with Jim Carrey. That machine was always the embodiment of my big dream. My passions, materialized. It's my hope for a future in which I get to live doing what I've always wanted and what makes me happy. So slowly, but definitely surely, I'll get to create masterpieces with the magic that flows through that needle.
Long story short...my slow (I mean snail-like) pace of an income better get a move on! Before leaving the store I had sold one of my floret rings to another customer, my hair bow to the cashier and if I had another purse with me I may have parted with my Jason Wu for Target daisy print handbag to the sweet woman who had become enamored with it. Basically if you want to buy something off my back, I'll sell it to you.
Why? because I have more than most and I've started something that I plan on successfully finishing. Dreams deserve that, don't they? They are dreams that I know will not come easily or quickly, but I am bold enough.
...and if you read through all of that. Then you are rewarded with this sweet photo of Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as his child bride. It's one of my favorite scenes from that movie. Their faces in that moment look so familiar.
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| so broken hearted |
In my quest, I "just happened" to find myself across the street from Jo Ann Fabrics.
Lately I have made a point to stop by and take a look around. I don't always buy fabric, but I do love walking through all the pretty colors and patterns for inspiration. Also, for the last few months I've made a special visit to this Singer beauty I posted many weeks back.
I say "hello" to it, I thread the needle, the sweet ladies let me demo the stitches, it (apparently) stars in my phone photos; but am I ever going to spend the MSRP of $599.99 on it? Oh heck no!! Why would I? I mean sure, my machine looks like a joke in comparison to this glorious machine, but it gets the job done.
Oh, but today... today I walked by and a very tiny sign was taped onto the top of the machine. Not a big, flashy sale sign just a white piece of paper with a new price typed on it. A new price that would only last for so long. A new price that meant I could possibly hope again! Almost half off and then some because the box of the only one in stock had been opened, but the machine untouched.
Today I took a leap of faith. No. Not a leap. I freaking pole vaulted. I went completely old school and put it on lay away. You
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| practice stitching |
I would never put something on lay away and I would never advise anyone else to do it either. If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. Sorry, if it's that or food? Food wins, but there are rare things that you have to claim before they pass you by and to me, this was it. I never saw this Singer as just another object, another sewing machine. It has been that which I've lusted over, but realized it will never be. Like an afternoon with Jim Carrey. That machine was always the embodiment of my big dream. My passions, materialized. It's my hope for a future in which I get to live doing what I've always wanted and what makes me happy. So slowly, but definitely surely, I'll get to create masterpieces with the magic that flows through that needle.
Long story short...my slow (I mean snail-like) pace of an income better get a move on! Before leaving the store I had sold one of my floret rings to another customer, my hair bow to the cashier and if I had another purse with me I may have parted with my Jason Wu for Target daisy print handbag to the sweet woman who had become enamored with it. Basically if you want to buy something off my back, I'll sell it to you.
Why? because I have more than most and I've started something that I plan on successfully finishing. Dreams deserve that, don't they? They are dreams that I know will not come easily or quickly, but I am bold enough.
...and if you read through all of that. Then you are rewarded with this sweet photo of Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as his child bride. It's one of my favorite scenes from that movie. Their faces in that moment look so familiar.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
An egg hunt dream...
...basically, if dress wishes came true, I would wear all of these to an egg hunt.
1. eShakti Eternal Sunshine Dress
2. Dorothy Perkins Pleated Tie Neck
3. Dorothy Perkins Alice & You Mint Spot 50s Dress
4. Dorothy Perkins Rise Crochet Collar Dress
5. eShakti Floral Dress
1. eShakti Eternal Sunshine Dress
2. Dorothy Perkins Pleated Tie Neck
3. Dorothy Perkins Alice & You Mint Spot 50s Dress
4. Dorothy Perkins Rise Crochet Collar Dress
5. eShakti Floral Dress
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Subconsciously dressed for the arrival of bunnies...
...or maybe just willing the Spring sun to come around and say hello. We had a total of 1 nice, sunny day last week. That's it. Just ONE. Today, like most other days, it was dark and mostly raining. I am extremely deficient in Vitamin D. Also, I've noticed that my California tan has completely vanished and a more Pacific Northwest translucency has taken its place (as seen in my last post). I did stay out for as long as I could on that one nice day and noticed some color (and energy) coming back. So here's to wishing the sun really will show up on Saturday as the weather man has predicted. As for the outfit, it's not really my favorite, or particularly special in any way other than the fact that it's very pastel and roughly cost me about $6 total (including sweater). I guess it's really just good for calling on bunnies and making me miss the unbelievably under-priced thrift stores I've left behind.
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