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i've been watching this community for quit some time now, but never really have taken the time to post something so here my first post! ^^ i've been doing quit some t shirt(and more, i also sew thing myself) surgery now, and wanted to show this one, i only used a scissor for it so it's quit easy to make when you don't have a sewing machine.
here's the before pic (2005) as you see its way to loose around my waist. i think i haven't worn it ever again after this photo, until i found out i could make something out of it (and i stopped wearing pink, now this is the only thing pink that i have left haha):
 ( clickety click for the result! ^^ )
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Where'd the memories go? =( I used to come on here a looong time ago and recently got the web back. I was just wondering what happened to the memories. I used to refer to them a lot and was wondering if they got redirected somewhere?
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in between starting and finishing this, I sewed an entire quilt by hand. you'd think this would get done. now I have a sewing machine! mum got me one for christmas. So this may be the last thing I ever hand-sew!
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January 4th 9.10pm] |



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| THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING--movie review |
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January 4th 10.23am] |
Salutation chers amis:
"Morality is that which we adopt over those to whom we feel superior in life." -- Maîtresse Renata
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
The DVD package also contained 4 very nice color reproductions of the movie lobby cards--pictured below. I wanted the movie because of my "infatuation," if you will, of what happened back in 1906 and the murder which some of you read about and were kind enough to comment upon in my LJ. I watched it yesterday and would like to now review it for you who may be still interested in the event also.
It starred: Ray Milland (Dial M For Murder) as Stanford White Joan Collins (Dynasty) as Evelyn Nesbit Farley Granger (Rope) as Harry Kendall Thaw Luther Adler as defense attorney Delphin Delmas Cornelia Otis Skinner as Mrs. Thaw (Harry's mother) Glenda Farrell as Mrs. Nesbit (Evelyn's mother) John Hoyt as prosecuting attorney William Travers Jerome
For approximately one hour and fifty-five minutes Hollywood attempts, with Evelyn Nesbit herself as special advisor to the movie production, to tell the story of what I posted in my LJ a few days ago in 11 segments. So I won't repeat myself here.

Harry K. Thaw is on his knee in one of NYC's finest department stores, Lord & Taylor, proposing marriage to Evelyn. Behind Granger is the sales lady and to her left, in the olive colored dress, is Evelyn's mother--Mrs. Nesbit.
I will say this about the movie though: Ray Milland is RAY MILLAND and I found it hard to see him in the role as Stanny White. I felt him far too kind and polite to be the real "Stanny" White even though in her autobiography Evelyn talks kindly of him. I thought Farley Granger did a better portrayal as Harry K. Thaw although he too lacked what it was that Harry possessed--madness. Yet the film did bring out this fact albeit it was very polished and whitewashed from what the documents speak.
As for Joan Collins, a very YOUNG Joan, playing Evelyn--well, she came across pretty good. With a touch of scheming in her character that very possibly could have been in the real Evelyn. Very little emphasis, however, is given to the red velvet swing in Stanny's upper story "love nest." Only one very MILD and short lived scene is devoted to that subject and then it breaks away to another scene sometime later.

"Mad Harry" Thaw stands in front of Stanny White with golden gun in hand a few seconds before he fires 3 shots that kill Stanford White.
Probably the best scene of the movie, and certainly the most accurate based upon my research thus far, was the murder scene where Harry walked up to Stanny and shot him dead in front of all those people. I could not find one small iota of detail that was missing in it. It was performed with all the cold-blooded deviltry of how it was described in the newspapers and other sources I have checked so far in my interest. And, watching it, one can certainly feel what it must have been like to have been present that evening of June 25, 1906 when "Mad Harry" Thaw gunned down Stanny White atop the Madison Square Garden.

(L. - R.) Mrs. Thaw (Harry's mother), Evelyn, Harry's sister Margaret played by Karolee Kelly and defense attorney Delphin Delmas. They are attempting to bribe Evelyn to testify for Harry.
The trial scene was done as though it were but one single trial and not two. But it lacked the drama of the real trial and was not even close to the drama found on a Perry Mason episode. Thus it was rather weak to say the least.

Mrs. Thaw (L.), Harry's mother, is begging Evelyn (R.) to please testify for her "dear boy."
Also weak were the two mothers--Mrs. Thaw and Mrs. Nesbit. Glenda Farrell, who played Evelyn's mother, could have been portraying her as she was but I felt Cornelia Otis Skinner, who played "Mad Harry" Thaw's mother, was too bland to be the conniving rich woman who was really Harry's mother.
With all that said I am happy I bought the movie and am pleased to add it to my movie library. I will probably watch it again some day when I am far away from the interest of "just the facts!" Perhaps I'll enjoy it even more.
"Où les Fins de Vie et l'Obscurité Commencent!"
"Je SUIS un individu autonome."
"Je suis né seul. J'ai vécu seul. Maintenant je meurs seul."
Maîtresse Renata
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| How To Steal A Million |
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January 4th 11.02am] |
Bones: 1-43 Goop in the Girl // BS photos Young Victoria: 44-76 Inglorious Basterds: 77-99 Rufus Sewell: 100-114 How To Steal A Million: 115-135
Sherlock Homes: 136-192 Glee: 193-252 Vitamin D, Wheels, Once Upon A Mattress & Sectionals
Preview:
The rest can be found here. @ come_daylight
More to come, so keep an eye out! :)
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[Monday
January 4th 8.29pm] |

para-para-para parañaque!!!!!!!
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[Monday
January 4th 8.25pm] |

third world love <3
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[Monday
January 4th 8.23pm] |

LET'S FACE OFF!!!!!!
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