Erin Bee @erinbee@gorgon.city

Built like one of those big legged cartoon ladies 💯

Fisher Bripes

Fisher Price Pour Over Coffee Set

French jet (black glass) collar, circa 1880. I want to find some beads like this and make myself a repro.

I wish the liquor store near me would carry smaller size bottles of most liqueurs, because as much as I love an Aviation cocktail (gin, maraschino liqueur, creme de Violette), there is no way I am ever ever going to go through 700 ml of creme de Violette in the rest of my life, and miss me with "It's $30, and a cocktail at a bar is $15-$17 so after 3 drinks..." because I still have to store a bottle that's too tall for my booze cupboard.

The right angle, the right amount of light, and just enough leftover rain to turn the ground pink and gold for a moment.

A pretty magical haul of brooches from the thrift stores this week.

The world most certainly did not need the term "Disney + and thrust."

I've got mixed feelings about silk – wearing animal products sounds awful to a lot of people (shades of Cruella De Ville?) even ones who eat meat. Silk goes that extra step above wool in that an animal dies, and there isn't the sort of "but we eat that animal too!" handwaving people do with leather. But silk has a lower environmental impact than a lot of other fabrics. But which side matters more when purchasing used anyway? (This skirt is light and comfortable, btw.)

When the slang hits the end of the road at the thrift store

I just walked past a guy wearing shorts, flip flops, and a parka – never change, Vancouver autumn.

I make an exception for Christmas stuff in November when it comes to all the peppermint flavoured things coming out and I just had to go for this over the top more sugar than tea tea. The one petty beef I have is that all of the snowflake motif stuff ends at Christmas, which is hardly into winter at all and it doesn't even snow here usually until January, and then there's nothing to decorate for until Valentine's Day (meh). Keep the lights and snowflakes a little longer!

I don't knit, but I adore large hand-knitted (or hand-knit looking) things. And red never used to be my colour but it's like as I'm ageing the way my looks are changing and the way I see myself have made it become more appealing.

The Value Village off the highway still has their "Halloween Is Here!" banner hanging on the back of the building. Happy October 42nd, everybody.

Got a tiny tattoo while I was on vacation, because it felt good to have the time available to make and follow through on a spontaneous choice. Felt drawn to a poppy because it had been a long time since I'd had a dream while sleeping (and longer since I could remember one on waking), and in the last few weeks I've been sleeping well enough that the ability has come back.