Love this mural of Erotica on the Library of Congress ceiling.
The serene look when you know you’re working on some quality smut
My partron muse
i’m still so pleased the muse erotica is like a 20-30 something woman in a kicking back with a nice lap blanket and a tablet and an ambiguously gay haircut instead of some thin sexy siren with her boobs and butt out. this artist absolutely knew their shit. this artist was 100% correct.
The artist was George Randolph Barse
and i just found the photographer was Carol M Highsmith, and you can buy this as a print RIGHT HERE
Aww yiss.
Well, now I know what I need to hang in my office.
Yep, this is a real problem. From a design stand point it saves fabric and time since you don’t have to add any darts or pockets, and they go with the premise that a flat square shape should fit everyone without having to make much changes to the pattern (except to make it bigger or smaller). This whole one-size-fits-all mentality in fashion is so flawed, and actually impractical, it really annoys me how teachers let it slide in college and how the apparel industry continues to spew it year after year.
As someone who has breasts (DDD-H depending on what manufacturer I’m talking to) and loves pockets, let me wholeheartedly recommend eshakti.com. I started buying dresses from them in November and I love them. They will customize necklines, hemlines, etc., for a $9.95 flat fee, they will customize to your measurements if you don’t fit a standard size, and I’ve really enjoyed all my dresses from them. Most of their dresses come in sizes from XS to 6XL Feel free to message or send me an ask if you have specific questions!
I’ve bought a lot of dresses from eshakti and I definitely concur. Their poplin dresses are super wrinkly and I travel a lot, so I mostly only buy the cotton/spandex ones, but they’ve had a lot more of those in recent years.
I bought several once they added shoulder-to-waist measurements to their custom sizing. I have a long torso and the waistline on off-the-rack dresses is almost always a few inches too high. Now I have several comfortable, cute, flattering knit dresses with pockets!!
In the past, a few people have asked me where they can find ancient jewelry for sale. While auction houses such as Christie’s, Bonhams, and Sotheby’s certainly offer ancient jewelry in their lots, not everyone can afford to buy genuine artifacts, myself included! I’ve thus done quite a bit of online sleuthing, searching for high-quality reproductions, and I thought I’d share what I’ve found with you all. Happy shopping!
Artist Ely Gordeeva loved spending time in the sea, swimming and reading fairy tales on the shore. She often imagined herself as a magical mermaid, because she deeply wished the stung mythological creatures existed. Since she spends her time on the island of Bali in Indonesia, she is vastly inspired by the tropical weather and its ambient.
She began designing swimming wear with surreal and magical illustrations, which reflect on her childhood fantasy of becoming a mermaid.
Each suit contains a storytelling quality, which embraces the magic of the sea. Find her swimwear collection in her Etsy shop, Sea Tales Swimwear.
West End Collectables makes a stunning set of Our Solar System represented in 11 vibrant marbles including accurate Earth, Moon and Mars globes. The remaining 8 marbles an artistic representation of the planets, the set is semi-scaled and not an accurate representation but an attractive curiosity nonetheless. Find them in their Etsy shop.
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