Danny Washington from Greenbank Galleries on Smithdown Road will be selling beautiful reprints of rare vintage and antique postcards featuring Liverpool. Prints will on sale with mounts and a selection will be professionally framed.

Smithdown Road Liverpool, Postcard

The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool Lime Street

  You can visit Greenbank Galleries at 339 Smithdown Road, Liverpool

This trend is all things feminine: Romantic florals, sheer fabrics and cosmetic colors.

 Today is my Friday, I will be on Holiday until December 1st.

I hope you have an amazing Thanksgiving!

We’ve got things on etsy! After being off of there for a long time, we are finally back! Up to about 11 items now, plus 20 + or so on artfire. Lots more to come on both too!

Just a bit of what’s to come, here’s new necklaces, and a few journals!

YES… YES EU 話します Ελληνικά

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One big problem with a traditional square business card is you can only do so much with the shape that’s been given you. Messing with the size doesn’t work – who wants a business card the size of a DVD cover? Well, there’s a solution allowing you to stay in the rectangular style without having to die-cut the card and get too crazy – Go Vertical!

Erick Uresti from Target Design Group

With a simple switch of the orientation of the text, this card becomes extremely modern while maintaining a clean and simple appeal. Take special notice of the front of the card – the circular design and red watermark in the center are a very nice touch. Of all the many business cards we have seen, this is one of our favorite designs – a great example of style and function meshing together.

Remember, PrintFirm offers the most competitive business card prices on the web. We also offer a complete selection of pre-designed business cards and linen stock business cards or you may choose to use our exclusive business card designer.

Let’s start the week with some inspiration! Bethan’s just stumbled across Sadie Olive, a lovely blog written by Sara Duckett, a Californian photographer. Her love of vintage lace, antiques and all things pretty means every post is a visual treat.

This makes me want to rush home and tie pink velvet ribbons around my vintage cutlery too! At the moment, we store it all in French Cassoulet tins – practical, but not half as pretty!

What a lovely start to to the week! I love the vintage scales above, and the beautiful styling in these shots. On closer inspection, it turns out Sadie Olive is not just a blog – it’s a whole empire! Sara runs three shops – she sells antiques, postcards and prints of her photographs, does graphic design and sells collectibles…is there anything she doesn’t do?! She’s also on her third blog. I’m exhausted just thinking about it. – Ellie

From textured blouses to red hot trenches, this is a fantastic fall color!

So in september I went to this store  the Rage, in the kensington market (www.ragetoronto.ca)

and a month later they gave me a bunch of fabric to do my prints on.
A month after that I actually did print the fabric, and now tomorrow I’m bringing them the prints and hopefully bringing back a wad of cash.
I’m so professional.

But, I’m excited, and am pretty happy about some of the prints, which are now too packaged to take pictures of and post on the internet.

And I forgot to mention that I made one final Impossible Speed order for 2009 and it’ll hopefully be coming in before december.
Anyways,
That’s what I did today, and thats what I’m going to do tomorrow.

Thanksgiving is coming up! Get ready for your turkeys and whatever-else-you-people-eat on this SUPER COOL HOLIDAY. Okay, okay, that’s enough.

Aaanyways it got me thinkin’ about the whole story of pilgrims and indians sharing before the manslaughter and I thought ‘Hey! didn’t we see a few things reminiscent of this just now?’ Or more like lots of the collections I’ve managed to flip through seem to lean to either end of the spectrum: most of them have voted for their own spin on the classic, earth toned, religious and sometimes militarized pilgrim variation with laces and tulles and coats. For example:

Alexis Mabille’s Fall Couture 2009. I liked this collection, made me think of porcelain dolls in the non-creepy way. Simple, light colors with added contrast and lotsa frilly girly beautiful lace. Kinda looked like they were wearing doilies, and we all know doilies = UBER SEXYNESS

ohyeah. SEXY BABY.

All in all, the collection was good, but not great. It got a bit plain at times (this ain’t the first time we see ribbons and pastels) and something about it reminded me of Alexander McQueen’s RTW Fall ‘08

See? Lotsa lace, very feminine, only more hardcore and LOTS more poof.

As for those who went indian this season, we’ve got mucho prints, tribal themes here and there, and obviously tons of focus on the awesome accesories. Kenzo RTW Spring ‘10 has some amazing prints; a shining example for the rest.

As for accesories, well, there’s A LOT of stuff to show this season, going from Bottega Veneta’s awesome woven-like bags and wedges and Giambattista Valli’s tribal clutches to the resin, turquoise and bead necklaces of Phillippe Ferrandis and Sophia Kokosalaki’s ethnic gold creations.  There’s also a few things I’d like to highlight about my lovely little country, especially a thing called Cali Exposhow, held every year in a city called (you guessed it!) Cali.

Usually I don’t really like hate most of what I see in my national fashion shows, due to their lack of thinking-out-of-the-box-ness, less-than-amazing styling, bad materials and the overall tacky look when the ideas are actually good.

However! I pride myself on the accesories, because they can be edgy (not common, but I’ve seen ‘em), ethnic, classy, and just about anything. My favorite part is how they get to be so outlandishly colorful without being like OMFG AGATHA RUIZ DE LA PRADA YOU BLINDED ME (but I don’t mean it like that because she’s actually AWESOME).

Bags and shoes by Pilar Valdez. Colorful, ethnic-like, wearable, yet not over the top tacky!

Now that I’m done with my ranting, how about you guys? Does your personal style lean towards the Pilgrim or the Indian? Do your picks of the season fall into any of these categories?

Catch you all soon, duckies!

xoxo, Andre

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Self-portrait.

Also posted on: Flickr, deviantART, AltDiva and LiveJournal
Buy prints from: Fotki and deviantART

seventeen, i was
seventeen, when i met you
seventeen times you
broke my heart

seventeen dreams each
night, then i wake up always
and forever, still
seventeen

In case anyone has had a common sense bypass, the blood and gore effects in this are created with MAKE-UP and are NOT REAL. Obviously. If you want to make your own gory face, the materials used here are:

Texture on and around lips: Make-up International Liquid Latex
Nosebleed and blood on mouth and cheek: Kryolan Fresh Scratch Blood Effect
Skin tone and shading: Ben Nye Death Wheel
Blood in eye: Kryolan Eye Blood

Wanderers Cricket Ground situated in Johannesburg is the cricket stadium with the biggest capacity in South Africa and host of numerous international cricket games.

Size: 21,6cm x 26,11cm

Price: 180 US Dollars

Mossel Bay on the South East coast of South Africa is known as one of the cities/towns in the world with the most moderate climate.

Size: 32,9 x 48,3cm

Price: 260 US Dollars

The Moses Mabhida Soccer stadium in Durban will host one of the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup

Size: 18,5cm x 38cm

Price: 200 US Dollars

Flower taken with a 105 mm Macro lens with selective focusing.

Size: 20,3cm x30,4cm

Price: 180 US Dollars

Camps Bay in Cape Town is known for its beautiful sunsets. I took this image one morning early during June 2008.

Size: 29,7cm x 42cm

Price: 220 US Dollars

Cape Town is rated as one of the top 5 cities in the world. This image taken from the lower end of Table Mountain towards Bloubergstrand.

Size: 30cm x 90cm

Price: 350 US Dollars