December 2009
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Comments?
Do you like this new format? I am trying to find a way to make it easier to comment. I think I’ve done it. You should be able to click on the word “comments” in purple and be able to leave a comment. It also appears that if I write a question, I can check a box that says “Let people answer this” and a box appears that allows for comments. Please try it and tell me if...
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December 29th's Inspiration
Recent security snafus have ensured that air travel to the US is more of a pain than usual (if that is possible, I hear you mumbling.) Yet, this week I was inspired by line-ups. I saw the figure of a woman waiting to board a plane. The dress provided the inspiration for other elements of the story: the vaguely flamenco-inspired dress suggested a Spanish lover; there was something theatrical in my...
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Short, black, flirty dress
OMG Fiona, you look fantastic in the dress! I loved the blog too!
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December 29th: Indiscretion
Indiscretion
Airport. Hordes of people congregating around two open check-in kiosks. Zoom camera to lone woman. She’s bundled against the cold, wearing a long black down coat, striped scarf, black gloves, a woollen toque with ear flaps, black Ugg-style boots. She takes off the hat first, nonchalantly. She’s not really paying attention to anything going on around her.
It would be...
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Ever had it happen ...
where you get some fragment of an idea caught in your head? I was playing around with the exposure and colour saturation of this photo, and this vague outline of a character leapt into my head. A teenager. Curious, since I don’t typically write about teens …
I figured it was because the dress was lent to me by a teenager, so I didn’t think too much about it. (Yes, Fiona can...
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Tangential Thursday
Tangential
You can blame my parents. I always do.
It was my dad that gave me the nickname. My head was always in the clouds, he used to say, as if that would explain it.
- Hey, Kevin, you coming back to earth?
It was a joke between them, my parents, probably the only two people on the planet who would think in terms of the rudimentary equation
Off in own world = Spacey = Kevin
You had to...
What inspired me this week
I wanted to take advantage of the casualness of the photo. I liked that my wedding ring was visible, so we have a married heterosexual couple, Karin and John, as the named characters. I liked that you can tell I was laughing by what you can see of the facial expression, so I tried to be amusing (Was I?). The dress itself — short, black, and flirty — did kind of beg for something...
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I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
There was a pile of paper on Karin’s table. A gas bill for forty odd dollars. A statement that her variable rate mortgage had gone down again. A receipt from Old Navy – as if she had time to go online to complete the survey that would get her fifteen percent off. Karin always wondered if the teenage cashiers actually checked. Then she wondered what form of karmic punishment had her shopping in a...
Love Food Hate Waste? →
Here is an awesome site from the UK that I stumbled across this morning when looking for ways to use up a stale loaf of French bread. Many good ideas!
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By way of explanation...
Here is the first post for “Try It On Tuesday” — that’s when I take a dress, try it on, have a photo taken, then write something inspired by the dress that gets posted on Tuesday. It is a writing exercise that I designed for myself. I’m always working on some aspect of my writing; lately it has been dialogue that’s been giving me fits. How do I make my...
Try It On Tuesday 1: "Sandals on a tile floor"
Sandals on a tile floor
“I … I… I am just so completely inadequate.” We’re sitting at the kitchen table, Leah and I, in the time that exists for next-door neighbours to chat while other things are going on in the late summer’s evening.
“No, you’re not,” I jump in, but she hastily answers back that I am just being a good friend. “I know you, I know you are not inadequate, so… where is this...
Excited!
I have twenty dresses already for the first series of the “Try It On Tuesday” Project!
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Deal? Deal.
I’m a writer — and sometimes I need to get and stay inspired. It’s kind of lonely sometimes, otherwise. So, I decided to write this blog. The blog is called “Of Plotlines and Hemlines,” and it’s about getting inspired and staying inspired, basically. There are three things that tend to help with my creativity: sewing and fashion, cooking/ baking, and reading. It...