Recent content by NoirDame

Don't know if anyone has said, but for era placement those are Great Depression pictures taken by Dorothea Lange as part of a division of the WPA. I taught a class on it this past semester. Her work is VERY powerful and her most famous image is called Migrant Mother. I am interested by the...

Yes, heaven forbid we should want something that doesn't look like chiclets on the fingertips!

I can't fault you for that at all. I have another hobby (asian ball-jointed dolls). Well, after five years of looking and dreaming, I finally had enough money to buy one (the dolls are actually considered to be works of art and therefore they range in price from 300$ to into the thousands). I...

I recently got a beautiful 1930s Art Deco Waterfall vanity with large round mirror. I love it. I keep on top: 1940s college pictures of my grandparents with inscriptions on them all of my Chanel perfume (on the mirrored center shelf/tray) My jewelbox A smaller inlaid box from Egypt with...

#2 Saw it opening day! It was awesome!

You absolutely could do this if you had a mold to make a new shape. As a makeup artist, I need to condense my kit. I would cut the lipstick bullets into a divided pill box and nuke it in the microwave for about 10 secs (I don't think I have to say this, but don't put metal in the microwave)...

You know, when my hair got longer, my klippies weren't working, either. I went to bobby pins. When I get a trim, I'll go back to the pronged klippies.

I use rats made the 'old-fashioned' way out of hair from my hairbrushes. She can also tease the hair to give it some structural support and go without a rat, using some of the techniques the ladies have mentioned. She would look lovely with rolls. Try experimenting with positioning the hair...

I definitely advocate buying older pieces. They cost less and are made better. Just because you have to hunt around and not buy new doesn't mean your place won't have a coherent look. It's up to you to group the right pieces together and be a discerning shopper. Sometimes, it can be finding...

I must be the only natural blonde who doesn't want to be! With my pale skin, it's like everything fades away into nondiscript blah. I look best as a redhead.

My Response... ...while I'd hate to be dismissive of this, I am. My entire leg hurts when I do not wear shoes...so I fail to see how that is 'good' and to be preferred. I notice a major difference between wearing shoes and not wearing shoes while cooking dinner. Guess which one makes me...

I dug The Raven out of my movie library and watched it the day the story broke to commerate her.

My grandmother went to school with Clyde Barrow. She told us a story about him 'hugging' his younger brother until the baby turned blue. It could be a schoolhouse rumor, but gran certainly believed it. She said he was a very nasty kid.

I really can't stand Big Chuck and Little John. Their gags with the canned chuckling....ugh. Not to mention their annoying local commercials. I adore Elvira. Absolutely adore her. I dressed up "like" her in 2nd grade for Halloween and had a poster of her on my bedroom wall until my sister...

Wow. There really is absolutely no point at looking at those pictures. You can't see anything through the watermarks.