Decor @ MindSay

Fifi-Michelle wears a pink ribbon band hat with a purple sheer silk scarf decked with sequins and beads.

Nora sports a recycled silk sari head scarf with straw matt visor.  She sits between two other as-yet-unnamed other mannequin heads.  To her right is a head with Moroccan bellydance headdress and to her left is another head with a blue beaded headdress.

Fifi-Michelle on the shelf with the other unnamed "heads": on the left one wears a recycled silk hat, the other on the right wears a brightly colored Tam.

Close-up of the "dreamer" head (eyes closed). 

Then we have a close-up of the "green eye shadow" head wearing the Tam.

And, just in case you didn't get to check them out earlier, there are other unnamed heads at Dala's store:
The one wearing the gold-beaded headdress and green chin scarf looks rather medieval, doesn't she?
The next head is wearing the same gold coin bellydance headdress that I wear in my current profile photo.
The last photo shows off a lovely white metal headdress with mirrors.  That head was "rescued" recently -- she was about to get thrown into the garbage because she was falling apart and her features had faded.  I couldn't let that happen.  So I took a bit of white-out and remade her face.  She now winks out of her sleep and two hearts on her left cheek hide where once was an accidental scratch in her styrofoam! How some of the mannequins looked before their make-overs. They now all have at least one eye open!

Feel free to help me name the others.  Hope you have a happy day.

Lola and Cinnamon (thanks for the names, everyone!) are now all dressed up and standing pretty in the store window.

What I did today: gave a spark of life to the totally lifeless.  Made faces out of blank styrofoam heads.  Each one has their own personality.  Quite a difference considering how generic they once were.

Doing this really got me out of a bad funk today.  I'm now ready to go back to my drawing board!

Anyone want to give some names to these heads?

foreverknight  should really love the "Lydia" looking one (with the black bangs and choker necklace)!

many latkes later we sat with the cohen's in the den getting to know them, talking about places we had lived and families and work and values and it's delicious when you click with people like this right away. Jim met the husband playing tennis- he is a psychiatrist and so we invited the man and his wife to celebrate chanukah with us. and it could not have been better.

 

and they responded today with a christmas afternoon invitation- three kids a dog brothers granndmothers. and a pool table in the kitchen .  It's an honor to know that the immediate affection we felt for them is reciprocated.  

 

I went to my first ASG meeting where the slate of officers was unamimously elected ( i think they have to beg to get people on the board)   anf the meeting took place in this fabric wharehouse that was 1l5 acres of everything textile. so what if it felt like I wa straveling to the farterest ends of east portland ( I was) and I tend to stay in the hilly little funky west side where we live- but what a bonanza. and every month they have a 40% sale so I have real incentive to watch my sewing budget so I can buy amazing fabric cheaply.

 

I have warped some wild colored threads for a purple shawl and maybe tomorrow I will dress the loom and get going. teh red table runner i was going to weave turned into an amazing sweater instead and I purchased some deep red damask to make a table ruinner andplacemenats for the newly painted dining room.

 

I really love making my own table linens and before long I may start making my own sheets - I have been doing pillow cases, duvet covers and bolsters forever--- but it might be fun to o it all myself. why buy a sheet for over $50 when one can buy very wide fabric in a yummy percale and maybe add trims and monogramming?

 

Yes home sewing and art sewing is my favorite as things do not have to fit- but I do have that kilt I disassembled last year because it ws a size 4 - did i ever have hips that narrow?- and i am reworking  the fabric into a darted wrap around skirt- like the flannel one I just finished but this is a real tartan plaid.

 

at any rate I am back on the horse and doing well and  my latkes were not like bricks but not the best on earth either. The roast chicken stuffed with fennel however was amazingly moist. Thank you Fisher & Paykel. I just shove the probe in the leg, connect it to the socket inside the oven ,  turn the probe temperature to 185 and it tells me when the bird is done.  worls for any roast. Perfection is just a prick away.