front row at the ivana helsinki show.
in Performance, there are pictures here, Thoughts and Feelings
as afro, bliss spa, education, empowerment, fashion, fashion show, fashion television, friend david, front row, girls, ivana helsinki, kind, legs, manicure, moment, peach daiquiri, show, spa, time, UNCROSS, whole time, Wix, Yesterday
Yesterday, I went to Wix to be interviewed by an organization that supports the empowerment and education of women globally, Girls Who Rock. Because I can be rather fuddy-dudded at times, and I do not always read through the fine print, I did not realize the interview was ON CAMERA until I got there.
OH.
Good thing for me, though, I was headed straight to the Ivana Helsinki fashion show and was already dressed for that. In Ivana Helsinki, and looking like this:
The fashion show was so interesting. The last one I attended, I was performing, so I stayed backstage unless I was singing. This time, I was just dressed pretty and sitting in the front row. I was interviewed by Fashion Television and…someone else whose name escapes me at the moment. I had to get up and pose a couple of times before the show and after.
This is the I Really Have to go to the Bathroom, but I am Still Fashionable Pose.
Just kidding, I didn’t really have to go to the bathroom. I just think it kind of looks like I did.
And, you might not know this about a fashion show, but they announce for everyone to PLEASE UNCROSS YOUR LEGS right before it starts. So the whole time I was concentrating very hard on keeping my legs uncrossed, yet closed. It was something I had to think about, cause I am so used to just crossing them.
Also, I am very jealous of the person with the afro in this picture.
It is my dream to have an afro someday.
“That one’s just not meant to be,” my friend David told me gently, after confiding this to him one day.
OUCH.
Whatever, a girl can dream. A life without dreams looks very bleak, indeed, right?
And a friend very kindly gifted me with a manicure at Bliss Spa today. “Every once in a while, you should feel like a girl,” he said. I sat next to a lady who asked for the most pale, opaque pink they had. And then I chose something called peach daiquiri. It is so wonderfully bright that I am half expecting it to glow once I turn off the lights to go to sleep. It makes me so happy, though. I was in quite a conundrum walking back to the subway from the spa. Because it was freezing, I’d put my hands in my pockets. But then I couldn’t see the pretty color on my nails, so I’d take them out. And then I’d get really cold, so I’d stick them back in my pockets. And that’s how it went until I got to the train,
But, really, would you want to hide these nails in a pocket?
all dressed up with a ukulele.
in Funny Stuff, Performance, there are pictures here
as breakfast, breakfast meeting, care, catwalk, courage, dear friends, event, fashion, fashion event, first meeting, heck outta, japanese man, kind, kind lady, makeup, musical sense, someone, tomorrow, uke, ukulele, Voice
I am so tired right now and I have to get up for a breakfast meeting in the morning. And then I have two shows…so, right. This post will be short.
A very kind lady did my makeup for the pre-shows fashion event tonight. “I have googled you,” she told me, upon first meeting. “It does not look like you wear much makeup–are you comfortable with me doing your makeup?”
I assured her that I was.
And she got to work.
And then a very sweet Japanese man did my hair.
It was nice to sit back and let other people take care of me, actually. And this is what they did:
They also put me in a dress. Courage B is the designer. And they let me keep it. And I totally would have, too–had someone not stolen it. Which sucks, but what are you gonna do, right? I didn’t have that dress yesterday, so not having that dress tomorrow won’t be that different, anyway.
Here’ s a picture of me playing (in case you couldn’t figure that out). Oh man. I had to walk the catwalk to get to the stool and microphone to sing. People were so kind and cheering. Plus, I didn’t fall or even trip. Added bonus.
The mic situation was trying, though. They only had one and nothing to plug my uke into, so I had to somehow use one microphone for both my voice and my uke. I hunched over like some sort of creature to get my voice and uke as close together as possible for the mic to pic it up, and then I BELTED THE HECK OUTTA THOSE SONGS.
Here’s me and my wonderful, completely lovely friend Jes.
One of the best parts of the night was that two of my dear friends came with me.
And here is me and beautiful Bets.
Oh! Also, I had an awesome rehearsal in Brooklyn today with some AMAZING musicians I am collaborating with for the Sleep No More show on Monday. I feel so lucky to play my ukulele with these guys. Their groove and vibe is just plain dreamy. In a musical sense of the word. Plus they have a HUGE STUFFED LION in their apartment, just chilling. And they call him Aslan. Um, what’s not to love about that situation?
I met a kind Italian man who spoke to me for a while tonight. Considering the music was thumpin’ and his accent was pronounced, I did a lot of smiling and nodded without totally understanding what it was, exactly, I was smiling and nodding about, unfortunately. But, there were two things that stand out from that conversation:
1). I kept thinking that maybe my Italian grandfather (who passed away before I arrived on the scene, but worked in 30 Rock as the senior VP of RCA) sounded a bit like this guy, and the thought warmed my heart.
and
2). At one point I noticed liquid pouring down the side of his pants. I was really afraid that I was witnessing him peeing during our conversation…Until, with some relief, I realized that he was just holding his bottle of beer upside down. Thank goodness that’s what it was.
life and cleaning.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, there are pictures here, Thoughts and Feelings
as battering ram, Cause, fashion, fashion show, hamstrings, honest to goodness, kind, knight in shining armor, life priorities, mess, middle, moment, organization, proud cause, purple belt, rain boots, reading, reason, show, Tim Gunn
Does this kind of thing ever happen to you? You’re cleaning your room. Or, honest to goodness, really trying to. But then you find a dress your friend gave you that you’d completely forgotten about and it’s yellow (yellow!), so you decide to pair it with a purple belt and your rain boots and then [...]
thrifty fashion.
in photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as Army, budget, drawers, everything, fashion, fashion show, garden of eden, half, necessity, pair, salvation army thrift, salvation army thrift store, smell, store, thrift stores, today, treasure hunt, vintage stores, wednesdays, yellow stickers
Basically, ever since the Garden of Eden was closed down, clothes have become a necessity for us. Which means that, unless you are weaving your own own chambray sweaters and such (I, myself, have only woven, like, five. So far, anyway.), then you probably have to shop sometimes. So, I would like to remind you [...]
auditions, auditions.
in Performance, Thoughts and Feelings
as accompanist, audition, book readers, city, coffee drinkers, crazy thing, drink coffee, driving to the train, face, falling, fashion, kindred spirit, Line, person, rimmed glasses, sort, today, universal connection, Voice, yellow pants
I got up early this morning. I went to two auditions in the city. Would you like to know what I do to get ready for an audition? Well, today I wore these yellow pants. That was step one. You really can’t audition without pants. Unless you’re wearing a dress. That works, too, I suppose. [...]
films and cardigans and hats.
in Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as bad case, cardigan sweater, cardigans, champ, coming my way, envy, fashion, film project, hat, kind, lamp shade, oscillate, overabundance, scarves, single ladies, soft yarn, sweater, tonight, way, winter fashion, Yesterday
Tonight I helped friends of mine with a film project they are working on. I do not know the first thing about these kinds of endeavors (but I can tell you all about the forty-third thing about these kinds of endeavors, however. They generally have a lot to do with cleaning up and a little [...]
fashion.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as blog, brother jason, buds, Christian Bale, clothing, crazy outfits, day, fashion, foot, foot apparel, labor day, newsies, oliver, oliver twist, reflection, skin, skin tone, sneakers, tee, way
Okay, so yesterday I was getting ready for church. I pulled out a turquoise dress to wear over a cream colored little tee with faded branches and cherry buds throughout. I also wore my oliver twist boots that have replaced my favorite sneakers (until I find them, for find them, I will) as my most [...]
