A little vanity never hurts ...

Bloggyville dearest,

This week has been like a roller coaster ride gone upside down & all around. I swear to YOU my life has defied gravity. On absolutely every level!

So, word to the wise (or unwise) GO PARTY YOUR BRAINZ OUT ... Because, my life will likely be yourz one day, natch! Listen, don't fool yourself ... It's just a matter of time.

By about 4pm today, I thought I best whip out the old Sony Cyber-shot & vamp up for a couple of pics. Poor old rusty Sony. It's been to long dude. There was just enough battery juice for the pics below & then some. (Um, some about 40 others worth!)

Next I booted up my sweet sweet Photoshop & let the creative juices flow. And BEHOLD ... moi!

I give you: Vanity Fog, Vanity Jewel & Vanity Shot.

All 100% me, with the help of ... Nah, you don't need ta know. Just enjoy the art & indulge a silly Tart!!!

Hey, a special treat below. Don't cheat. Scroll slowly down. Slowly. I'm watching YOU.









Oh dear dear Vanity ... Read this poem by Sylvia Plath.
It suits me perfectly.

Vanity Fair

Through frost-thick weather
This witch sidles, fingers crooked, as if
Caught in a hazardous medium that might
Merely by its continuing
Attach her to heaven.

At eye's envious corner
Crow's-feet copy veining on a stained leaf;
Cold squint steals sky's color; while bruit
Of bells calls holy ones, her tongue
Backtalks at the raven

Claeving furred air
Over her skull's midden; no knife
Rivals her whetted look, divining what conceit
Waylays simple girls, church-going,
And what heart's oven

Craves most to cook batter
Rich in strayings with every amorous oaf,
Ready, for a trinket,
To squander owl-hours on bracken bedding,
Flesh unshriven.

Against virgin prayer
This sorceress sets mirrors enough
To distract beauty's thought;
Lovesick at first fond song,
Each vain girl's driven

To believe beyond heart's flare
No fire is, nor in any book proof
Sun hoists soul up after lids fall shut;
So she wills all to the black king.
The worst sloven

Vies with best queen over
Right to blaze as satan's wife;
Housed in earth, those million brides shriek out.
Some burn short, some long,
Staked in pride's coven.


Delicious smooches,
The Tart
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Psssssssssst. Don't be shy. Click on a pic so I can see you better, my dear!

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A lucky charm

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A cozy place ... Love.


Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
~Charles Eames

A plan springs to life, me thinks. And soon!

Smooches,
The Tart
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Miles to go before ...

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Flying Sam
Originally uploaded by Éole

A road less traveled & so many choices. This week will bring change from the West wind with encouragement from the moon. Am feeling very Mary Poppins. Except that Mary knew where she was going & me, not so much.

Oh, I feel a draft ... It begins!

A sea of change & many smooches,
The Tart
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Hellooooo

My old phone - red
Originally uploaded by Astrid Tvedt [a little bit busy]

Post to come ... Natch!

Luck in multiples of 4

What is luck?

I've seen it in 4, all my life ... When I least expect it. Once upon a time, I looked for it everywhere. Then I gave in to it as just chance. I saw it Friday ... It was big & bold. For all to see. It stopped me in my tracks. What it means I have no idea. But none the less ... It makes me happy, my lucky 4. And that's enough.

Everyone deserves the simple pleasure of a lucky number, don'cha think!?!

And ... A luck kitty cat.


Smooches,
The Tart
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Domestic vintage colour - Yum!

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Yep, I could get really domestic over this! My drapes would be lime green in a lush vintage kinda way ...



For my own look ... Am thinking I would go with a June Cleaver/Bewitched style with a Balenciaga ultra elegant fine-tuning ... Yes & a dash of vintage gorgeous YSL. That man knew colour!!


Domestic goddess smooches,
The Tart

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Isn't this a funky thing!


Get a Voki now!



And that is my voice on the old Garage Band ... MP3 of me now on my iTunes. Hilarious!

Smooches,
The Tart
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A new bloggy banner & guilty pleasure pic!

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Dearest Bloggy-villers,

After a drowsy rain & a sumptuous breve tea latte, chased by a small handful of donut holes ... I felt it was time to welcome in Summer. What with all the Snow White-esque action going on outside my hut, it only seemed appropriate. Birds a twitter & bees, well you know! Bees being bees, etc.

Anywayz: Welcome Summer!

As a gift & an honor, I give you one of my most favorite Photoshopped images ... The Library Park. It only seemed right to also make it my new bloggy banner. Peeps, look up & have a seat on the bench. Kick off your treads. No worries, it's dry. Story time ...

Once upon a time, I was without a place to be 9-5 Monday through Friday. This allowed Moi to bask in the glory of every local park I could find. It was Spring. I hunted these gorgeous spots down with a vengeance. It was a solo activity ... Of which I really enjoyed & much needed. (Hmmm? All but that one private park. A quiet duet. Pure heaven!)

I was a renegade urban park ranger. Whilst the workers of my bubble were doing the toile & trouble ... Making widgets & other shee shee, I was sporting flip flops, white cotton Gap drawstring duds with a T, & an Oilily paisley backpack. What was in the backpack you ask? Camera, sketchpad/pencil, teeny-weeny throw, crackberry (off in park) & iPod, natch!

Yours truly "Park Picnic-ed" all over this city. Day & night - There is one bachelor in this city that will tell you I seduced him with cocktails, at a very trendy establishment one night on our 2nd date, only to commandeer his pristine vintage Mercedes sedan whilst he rode shotgun. I flew like a bat through the night ... Windows down, radio silent & managed visits to 3 gorgeous parks! (He later learned that my cocktails were just straight fizzy San Pellegrinos, not she-must-be-sloshed-like-me-drinky-poos.) To hear a guy happily groan while sliding his bare feet into blades of thick green grass is like ... Ya know, bee type stuff. I believe he may have even taken a small nap at one park, on the picnic table ... Did I take pictures of his toes!?!

All that said, you must know by now that it is all about the parks for me! This new banner happens to be from a photo I took of a local lake park. Van Gogh-ish don't cha think? All that yummy green ...

If you have made it this far & have read my entire post, I have a special treat for you! Please join me in the decadent pleasures of a sugar rush, as I am reveling in & go get one of these. Dip you fingers into the frosting ... How can you not?




Many smooches & happy Summer to ya,
The Tart
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