Nostalgic deliciousness, served daily!

If you're into those vintage posters Matt discussed in an earlier post, have we got the link for you!  Behold: Millie Motts, a blog where you can find images from 1940s-60s print ads, magazines, books, and photographs -- yummy!

I dont know about you guys, but I feel like this material has great decorating and crafting potential. So be afraid, smooth flat surfaces, we may just have another Mod Podge situation on our hands!

Tie-A-Thon: Week 3, 4, and 5

Tie-A-Thon is going smoothly, despite my inability to keep up with a demanding 1 blog per week. Hence today's entry.

So week # 3:

All of the above ties were thrifted except for the Whale tie, which is just too awesome to not buy new. The one on the end is my favorite because of it's ridiculous retro-ness. Its military green which - lets be honest - is my color.

And then Week 4:

Looking at this week's worth of ties makes me wish that I had the foresight to plan themes. I mean this is almost a complete brown week! With so many brown ties, its a good thing that brown is my color. The ties on the outside were thrifted, and the ones in the middle were purchased new. The outside ties are two of my absolute favorites. The duck one is knitted and is one of those ties that knot very easily. The one on the right features either two cowboys or two British gentlemen on a fox hunt. I have thus nicknamed it my Brokeback tie for obvious reasons.

And now Week 5:

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I know. But if I dont post this now, it'll take me a couple of weeks to do it. SO here are the ties that I'm wearing this week.

These ties were all thrifted. The first two are knitted ties, which is something that I'd like to find-buy-wear more of. And the last one is, well, a holiday appropriate little number I've been holding onto for a couple of months. My favorite of these three is the first one, because it ties like a dream and because pink is totally my color.

Me-likey: Mod Cloth

Quick! Someone invite me to a holiday party so I can buy one of these outfits.

All very reasonably priced at Mod Cloth, one of my new favorites!

Tie-A-Thon: Week 2

Another week, another quintuplet of ties!

I know what you're thinking, is that really a quintuplet of ties? Were those ties all really born in a single birth? My answer, friend, is a resounding yes.

The relentless building block video puzzle!

Impress your boss with these stunningly professional tetris ties ...

Hand painted using acrylics with textile medium.

I’ve dabbled with painting ties in the past, but it is always hard to come up with images that fit well on such an elongated canvas – the tetris design is perfect for this shape! I am going to sell these on etsy once Matt and I get our storefront set up.

And just in case it wasn't already in your head...

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Tie-A-Thon: Week 1

One week down, numberless weeks to go! Here are the ties worn this week:

The Brown tie and the Bird tie were thrifted, I bought the black one new (before I knew any better), and I forget where and how I got the gold boring one. I probably wear the brown one the most, because I wear brown the most. That being said, the bird tie is my favorite because it is ridiculous. I only wore 4 ties this week because I was out sick one day.

Notice the craftsmanship - the finely knitted browns, the happy yellow symetry, and the life-like fear in the pheasant's eyes as the peregrine falcon swoops in for its mid-afternoon morsel.

Week One down ... how many more to go?

Frightening.

My annual rant:

Now I know that Halloween is a time-honored opportunity for the ladies to dress more, um, provocatively than they normally would. There are classics like the sexy nurse and the french maid and what have you. But it seems like lately there is a slut-ified version of everything. I remember holding back gags as the girls on my college cheerleading team recited their plans, which included such ideas as (and I may be paraphrasing): "slut with butterfly wings," "whore with devil horns," "hooker with cat ears," and the list went on. I would then go home and joke to Matt that I was going to dress-up as something like a "sexy hobo" or a "trampy giraffe." I thought I was being ironic, but it turns out that you really can make anything slutty:

To my dismay, alarm, and amusement, these are all commercially available on the internets. A sexy Sherlock? Really? And the "mental patient" one is just downright offensive. Although this nonsense does make me feel like I am taking crazy pills!

Tie-A-Thon: An Introduction

When I was in High School, I only had one necktie. It was a skinny little black tie, and I (correctly) thought that it was cool. I only occasionally found myself in a situation where I had to wear it, but when I did, I (correctly) thought that I looked "hip." Later, in my 3rd year of college, I found myself working a job that required that I always be wearing a tie. For the two years that I had that job, I owned 3 ties (Pineapple, solid red, and a solid gray.)

And now, after working my current job for almost three years, I have so many ties that I really have no idea how many I actually have. Restated - and this is for Sarah and her potty mouth - I have a poop-load of ties. Over the last three years, ties have come to the occupy the role previously held by t-shirts. I used to love finding and wearing cool t-shirts. Well, no more. Don't let "them" fool you, once you get a real job you spend more time in a dress shirt and tie than you do in a comfortable t-shirt. Hence my current situation: up to my neck in ties.

Anyways, my coworkers have noticed that I have an, uh, assortment of ties, and have logically challenged me to wear a different tie, everyday, consecutively. If nothing else, I figure this will be a good way to find out how many ties I have, and to rediscover ones that have been buried.

I am arbitrarily establishing the basic rules as being:
1. Once a tie is worn, it must remain unworn until this farce is over.
2. Incidentally acquired ties (either thrifted or gifts) can be worn. What I mean by "incidentally" is that, if I am out thrift shopping, and if I see a tie that I would normally purchase, I am going to get it, and I am then going to wear it during this streak. What I will not do, is run out and buy ties simply to prolong this streak.
3. Ties worn will be left at work, to prevent confusion, mistakes, and cheating. My coworkers do not trust me.
4. I will wear ties everyday that I work, including Saturdays and "casual" Fridays, because "casual" Fridays are a buncha crap anyways.
5. I will try to blog weekly about the ties worn.
6. It ain't over until I run out of ties.

I urge readers to guess what day and month they think this epic-tie-wearing-extravaganza will end. To the winner I will give my least favorite tie.