adventures in prettiness
January 22, 2010
I have gone on several artsy/ crafty adventures this week. For instance, I made some pretty paper flowers:
I made them by improvising on this pattern. Special thanks to Sara, Kay, and Portlyn for sharing coffee, sweets, and conversation with me during the project!
And I knitted and felted an arm-band:
And I have been taking some photographs (warning: I am an extreeeemely novice photographer!) of places around Tulsa. Mostly places that I think are under-valued for one reason or another. This is the “costume” store by my house (click on the image to enlarge):
Pssst…allow me to let you in on a little secret: It’s really a stripper store! I didn’t even know there were whole stores devoted to stripper clothes, did you?!?!?! And the best thing about this one is that it’s a little mom-n-pop store run by a couple in their 70s. The old man drives a Prius, and the old woman makes custom-order outfits for her clientele. Isn’t that cute?
In other news, I am going to try to update the look of the blog this weekend if I can get technology to cooperate with me…wish me luck as I channel my Donna Haraway!
Have a pretty weekend,
Spring
January 22, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I wandered into that “costume” shop when I lived near there…. The couple that runs the place is very cool, and the non-stripper clothes (meaning normal, everyday clothes) that they do have are fabulous!
January 22, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Gina- I was too overwhelmed at the novel scenery to really pay attention to anything normal they were selling! Also, it’s funny to picture you in a stripper store
January 22, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Go cyborg Spring!!! Ok, you know you gonna haffa make me some of those paper flowers lady!
February 8, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I’m guessing you didn’t grow up in Tulsa.
Massad’s used to be down the street at 15th and Lewis, on the corner where Walgreen’s is now. It was next door to the Apollo Delman, a theater with a REAL BALCONY and all kinds of old-theater loveliness. I don’t know if it’s always been a stripper store; it used to have lingerie in the windows, and it was one of those places that you dared your friends to go into in high school (lingerie wasn’t as casually ubiquitous then as it is now–no Victoria’s Secret or Frederick’s in the mall, so it was kind of a daring thing to do).
As I recall, Massad’s is actually one of the oldest businesses in town. The current owners are probably at least the second generation, and maybe the third (although I doubt that the first generation sold stripper clothes. For one thing, Velcro hadn’t been invented yet).
February 9, 2010 at 7:58 am
mausfrau- that is fascinating history…thanks for sharing!