Sewin' 4 Lyfe!!! - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm turned on by old things, particularly old garments think 1780s-1820s and 1910s-1964. I want to build and live in a yurt.Rock me like a wagon wheel...

My Interests

(hand) sewing...dancing...copying vintage clothing...dancing...intimacy...sex...costume history...art and its history...knitting...embroidery...weaving...chai...indian and japanese food...sweatshop labor...yurts...wheelwrights

I'd like to meet:

people who are really good at something. people who make beautiful things with their hands, using tools without motors.

Music:

harum scarum... johnny cash... witch hunt... beat the devil... patsy cline... bitch... dresden dolls... dead prez... man man... ani difranco... tom waits... the gossip... M.I.A... the ravonettes... the tossers... etta james... janet klein and her parlor boys

Movies:

Pride and Prejudice (BBC/A&E)...North & South... Gosford Park...The Birdcage...Short Bus

Books:

Let My People Go Surfing... Amphigorey... Eloise... The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute FASHION A History From the 18th Century to the 20th Century...Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years...Creating Minds

Heroes:

19th-century women activists...Johnny Cash

My Blog

this has something real in it

(but that doesn't mean it will be anymore coherent) all of the sudden this blog seems interesting to me...esp. when I am supposed to be studying for a african american lit midterm...this has been a cr...
Posted by Sewin' 4 Lyfe!!! on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:40:00 PST

I looked at a 1913 dress today!

and holy shit, my sheets are clean.
Posted by Sewin' 4 Lyfe!!! on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:16:00 PST

Love your job. I do.

Find something you love to do and get someone to pay you to do it.
Posted by Sewin' 4 Lyfe!!! on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:48:00 PST