Here is my first published knitting design. I am so excited and hopefully will have time to do more in the future. It's on stands now in the best knitting magazine there is, Vogue Knitting Spring/Summer 08. I think I might actually wear this one, usually the things I knit end up in a storage bin.
Today I had a meeting with the Crochet girls at work and we were talking shop when I noticed this weird pair of tap shoes hidden under one of the girls desk. Of course I asked her if she was a tap dancer. "No," she said "I tried but couldn't get the hang of it". Then all of a sudden the other girl was like "I used to take lessons". She put those ugly things on and went to town on the plastic mat that her office chair normally rolls around on. It was hilarious. She even tried to booty dance with them on and I thought she gonna slip and bust. We laughed our asses off. They looked a little like this. She even posted them on Craig's List but nobody wanted the lonely pair.
So of course it made me think of my friend, Jamie, from Tilly and the Wall. Here is a clip from their recent show at the Knitting Factory in New York. There were so many young teens in the audience singing along and taking pictures. Jamie did a kick ass tap solo in the middle of the set.
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Seeing my friends play made me feel so nostalgic especially when they played Nights of the Living Dead. I had so much fun in high school with my friends, going to the docks, midnight garage sales, 40 ounces. It's great to see them enjoying their lives and doing what they love.
Tamara de Lempicka 1889(Warsaw, Poland) - 1980 (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
I want a biography like this woman and I want to paint like this woman. She has always been one of my favorite's. Known as "soft cubism", her portraits have an overpowering sense of seduction and desire. Her style is clean , precise and sensual. She live during my favorite time period and traveled all over the world. She was a bohemian artist in the Roaring 20's in Paris and then lived in L.A. during the 30's and worked with movie stars, famous painters, and writers. She has a great story and I encourage you to read more about her. I couldn't blog about it because it would go on forever. I had a hard enough time as it is getting this down. Damn it.
I got Spunky in 1987. As you can tell I was very young and she was just a little kitten about 2 weeks old. I lived with her my entire life except for a few months here and there. It's is a long time to spend with anything. I brought her up to New York with me in a rental truck and it was a long ride. She was a trooper. I think she was happy here in our little apartment. Tonight I miss her very much. The house seems empty and cold. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do, but she had a spoiled life. RIP 2/28/08
