The above photograph was one of a number to feature in a piece in the Daily Mail, in which the reporter posed this question: Aren’t you too old to STILL be stripping off in public, Katie Price?
Katy Price is 30. She was modelling her new lingerie range.
So, is this (unnamed) reporter suggesting that women over [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Is Katie Price Too Old?
Posted in Celebrities, Fashion, Shopping, tagged Jordan's Lingerie Range, Katy Price, Katy Price too Old on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Save Me from Art Nouveau!
Posted in Art, tagged Art Nouveau on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a random thought, but I think I’m beginning to like the Art Nouveau style. Stop yawning, I know you don’t care. And I know there’s a recession on, and wars and natural catastrophes but sometimes I Iike to give my little mind a break from all that and today I’m thinking about art. Art [...]
Abandoned and Worried
Posted in , tagged Abandoned places, Centralia on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to my fascination with abandoned places/things I’ve just given myself something else to worry about. I was checking out the ‘abandonments’ page on Web Urbanist (great site) when I came across a piece about the abandoned town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Way back in the 1960’s an underground fire somehow started and has been burning [...]
Freaking Laugh!
Posted in , tagged Funny sites, Greetings cards on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life, eh? You’ve got to laugh.. No, seriously, you’ve GOT TO LAUGH. People who laugh a lot are happier, healthier, better-looking and skinnier than sour-faced people. A good deal of serious research went into reaching that conclusion (I looked around the room). I might be wrong about the skinnier part, though.. Yes, strike out the skinny. Skinny people [...]
Credit Crunch Chic
Posted in Beauty, Economic Crisis, Economy, Recession, tagged credit crunch beauty, India Knight book, Lily Lolo on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that everyone has pretty much stopped denying that we’ve in a recession, I suppose we should brace ourselves for the deluge of books on how-to-survive-on-bugger-all . Still, India Knight’s Thrift Book — extract in the Times – looks as if it might be worth a read. She reminded me about the aspirin face pack [...]
You Want an Ice cream?
Posted in Vintage ads, tagged vintage advertising posters on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love old advertising posters — the images, the typefaces. I really think I could become a bit of a… collector — me, a minimalist! This one I like — but don’t you think that the image of the ice cream cone is a bit disappointing and unappealing? Does it really make you think you’d just have to [...]