dirndl skirt's doings:
dirndl skirt
- Location
- Beacon, New York, USA
- Birthday
- May 25
- Title
- Top Cat (sometimes)
- Company
- Sharon Watts ...Creative
- Bio
- I'm an illustrator in my day job, but I keep leaking with other things that need to get out. I compiled a book "Miss You, Pat: Collected Memories of NY's Bravest of the Brave, Captain Patrick J. Brown" which enables me to die knowing I did one good thing. But I have more up my sleeve!
MY RECENT POSTS
- Peg O' My Heart
May 24, 2012 01:27PM - The Dichotomy of Me
May 01, 2012 04:31PM - My Vinyl Mania
April 23, 2012 12:35PM - For Trayvon, for Justice ~
Hoodie pic
March 22, 2012 01:38PM - Meandering and Meeting-Up
March 16, 2012 11:03AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “You are soaring, you
know that, right? Just keep
going. "Cal.
No."
His…”
9:37AM - “Bell ~ an appreciation
for my title--great! I
wondered if it
was too wacky.
Glad…”
May 25, 2012 10:11PM - “Again, thank you
everybody for your warm
wishes. I am off to
visit
Violet (I post…”
May 25, 2012 11:53AM - “Matt...you know me so
well! Is there such a reaction
as a
delighted
semi-cringe?…”
May 25, 2012 08:31AM - “Wow~ fabulous endeavor
and tribute to your
relationship with
your bridge.
Thank y…”
May 25, 2012 12:25AM
Dirndl skirt's Links
- Author Portrait Series
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Carson McCullers
- Sebastian Junger
- Professional Info
- Sharon Watts Creative
- Dirndl Skirt Gatherings
- Miss You, Pat: Collected Memories of NY's Bravest of the Brave, Captain Patrick J. Brown
Peg O' My Heart
My grandfather on my father’s side, “Pappaw” Watts, was a foreman at PP&L (Pennsylvania Power and Light) and Renaissance man: a self-taught musician, poet, photographer, and beekeeper. He also was a Depression-era
… Read full post »The Dichotomy of Me
My avatar here is only one side of me. It is the part that says “Hey! Look at me!” and represents my illustration style. Kind of girly and fun, whimsical and retro-chic. It’s on my website and business card, and I guess you… Read full post »
My Vinyl Mania
MarianneSP and I have something in common: a fondness for thrift shop record oddities. Sometimes it was the bad taste of the cover that would send me diving for my Pac-Man change purse. This was primarily in the 1980s when I was embracing kitsch with a
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Meandering and Meeting-Up
My first visit to NYC was in 1970; I was in the eleventh grade and on a school trip. We stayed at the New Yorker on 34th and 8th, across the street from the newly erected Madison Square Garden, with the adjacent block still a large
… Read full post »Contents May Shift
Sometimes a thing will just snag my vision like a fish hook, tearing open the thin safety seal of my everyday existence.
A good cry, they call it, when you’re all done gushing tears like an unleashed fire
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“She’s a bit shy,” Chris informs me. That’s OK, I am too.
Violet is eighty-five, and recently uprooted from a small English village to live with her son and his wife, both exhaustive
… Read full post »I'm In Love Again
Material Girl
I was born into the spirit of Christmas gift excess. The proof sits in family archives passed down to me, the oldest and the childless. It is in the meticulously organized photo albums, well… Read full post »
Caution Tape in the Ramble of Central Park - Photo Essay
Summertime
for fernsy--my second post "evah," same day as the first
Anne Lamott I Am Not - a Saturday repost
Anne Lamott I am not. But I feel a sort of sisterhood-snag as I read her writing, a knit and purl of similar sensibilities. Not a media junkie, I have limited awareness of who’s out there--who’s hot, hip, happening, reviewed, revered
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Theoretically, I discovered that my father was human when he died. I was four, and Death was a vague notion, if that. In 1957, not even a pet had died.
One day he was smiling and lifting me off the… Read full post »
Writing: A- in Cursive, D in Creative
Approaching
Ground Zero from the north. I hadn't seen the actual site in
several years. 
Yep. Nice day.
Hopping the Pond ~ Fashion Art & Music @1984
In 1984, girls just wanted to have fun. And I just wanted to draw, dress up, and watch MTV. Lately I’ve been waxing nostalgic for that era that seems like just a few years ago, surely not the quarter century that it actually is. A
… Read full post »Spring Cleaning and Making a Will
Every year I throw open the windows at the first hint of a warm breeze that promises to take the chill out of my brick-insulated 1900 house, and embrace the rites of Spring Cleaning as firmly as my grip on the vacuum nozzle. I suck up winter’s dust bunnies and… Read full post »
These are a few of my new favorite things (OC à la Alysa)
1/ Buying a record player and getting to play all my old vinyl! First record played was “Speaking in Tongues” - Talking Heads. Today I woke up with the Go-Gos. Pump it up! (Plus I found out I have a very rare R.E.M. single on Hib-Tone records… Read full post »
I was fourteen, lounging on my mother’s bed as she put away the ironing, when the news of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death came over the clock radio on her nightstand. No words were exchanged, just as none had been over JFK, nor would there be in just
… Read full post »Who's Kicking Who?
A simple twist of words and fate got me where I am today.
Lately my brain’s chemical balance has been teetering on a tightrope as frayed as my last nerve. I am used to the feeling, because for a long, long time I have
… Read full post »For Dianaani ~ Faces in my kitchen
December 9 - NYT
December 10 - NY Post… Read full post »
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