home for christmas
I was with a friend at Goodwill when he held up this furry green coat as a joke, paired with an appalling Christmas-embellished mom-vest. I pretended to laugh at first, but I knew instantly that it must be mine. Call it Paris meets Sesame Street, call it Mr. Grinch meets Hollywood, call it AWESOME for $6.49! The sad truth: I haven’t had the nerve to wear it out of the house yet.
The sparkly thing in my hair is one of my mom’s spiral Christmas ornaments, which she fashioned out of that star wire everyone had in their arts + crafts kit when they were little. The background is the closet door of my childhood/teenage bedroom, which deserves a post of its own. It’s covered in angsty lyrics circa age 12, Sharpie doodles from the various characters that hung out with me as a teenager, and evidence of having the best parents ever who didn’t care what I did as long as I didn’t talk back or come home pregnant.
steampunk sally
Best Sunday ever: Woke up on a friend’s futon, ate dumpster-dived bread for breakfast and then caught a ride to my house to pose for Sara Baldwin’s steampunk, fashion-meets-science photo project! I stood on my bed donning a Double Zero dress, my own thigh-highs (cut from Target tights) and garter (Victoria’s Secret), and attempted my best turn-of-the-century, sexy-cyborg stance. (For some reason I was imagining Helena Bonham Carter a la Sweeney Todd the whole time. HOT MESS.)
It’s easily my favorite photo ever taken of me. Sara is amazing– she’s my manager at Cactus Flower, a double major in Journalism and Photography, writes for Nuvo, and shoots weddings, bands, and parties on the side. When I asked her how she gets so much done she said, “Every day I just wake up and think, how much can I get done today?” I think about this every time I find myself lollygagging around, and snap right out of it (sometimes).
See more of Sara’s photos on her flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sararrr/, and inside her head on her Tumblr: http://thebasementjam.tumblr.com/.