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AFTER MY OWN HEART

Well, I loooove the jewelry at OathNYC

It follows the humorous, retro, sort of meaningless-unless-you-lived-through-a-certain-timeframe-or-belong-to-a-certain-social-layer asthetic that I am so obsessed by.

While I couldn't find a great picture of the F%ck Tab necklace, you can see a link to it HERE and also in the latest issue of Time Out New York, which mentions that it's for sale at Catbird NYC . In case you didn't know, people used to take the tabs off their cans of Coke and hang them from their shoelaces. These were called "F%ck Tabs" and they symbolized something do do with how much sex you were having, or whether you had had sex in the past month or something....or something.

Anyway!

In place of a perfect, blog-worthy image of the aforementioned, I DID find this pic of a beautiful solid gold bobbypin necklace which I like almost as much...and also, probably my other favorite, a pendant that's a solid gold spray-paint nozzle, on those sites. F%cking Awesome.

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Well, it's Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. Time to eat, be with family and friends, and for me, to take stock of where I am in life compared to where I was the year before.

This really has been an amazing year for me. Creatively and personally. There were many things I questioned about myself, and many questions I had about myself that got answered. There are new ideas in the works, and older ideas that were seen through. So, I wanted to take a minute to let everyone who has read spiralbound_ and other fellow blog authors who have linked to it and helped me increase readership know that you have been a big inspiration to my growth as a creative...boosting my enthusiasm and also keeping me going, thinking, noticing things around me, (even if those things are things like calculator costumes and overpriced 80s toys on ebay.)

So, thank you-- I really appreciate your audience, your comments, and your correspondence, and I hope you celebrate your own Thanksgiving...no matter where you are!

Susan

Yeah, Kinda like that.

I like these. I like them even more now than I did as a kid.

Downstairs, in my laundry area, is a lonely, framed poster of a Nagel print called 'The Look'. I have been staring at it lately and it prompted me to look up more work by this bygone artist. Anyway, I'm posting these because a) I think they are visually striking and b) This is a decent illustration of what my color prediction from yesterday's post is all about....very dark. Very crisp, very matte, very deep and very pale all at once; with a little bit of deco flair in color and execution and c) They simply spoke to me.

2007 Spring Color Forecast

The phrase I am choosing to define my 2007 color pallette prediction is Powder and Darkness

Ok, not that I will be wearing these, but I wanted to make a note of my color prediction for fashion in 2007. What I think is that we will be seeing colors that take inspiration 1920's and 1940's glamour (clean, matte powder colored hues, with touches of dark spearmints, and plum purples) and the rich, striking, darker, neutrals of the high 80's...dark ebonys, patent blacks, and a hint of glossy burgundys or bright reds. Matte fabrics like silks will be big to carry these tones, as these light colors need great vehicles to appear as vibrant as they can. The goth-y trend, heavy on the blacks and Victorian influence, will give way to a more White-powdered look, more lightweight but equally intense.

My prediction is: blue will be OUT. Completely. So don't even think about it. I mean it.

Make-up will be VERY light eye treatment (maybe with powder-flesh-toned hues) and a defined eyelash and a strong lip-- lined, with a rich lipstick and a pop of gloss.

This is my prediction....put it on my permanent record.