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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Ah yes, the three vampire genders: Dracula Blood, Dracula Soft, and Dracula Mega

Pink clouds around a waxing crescent moon, phone cameras need to step up their game.

A crossword costume from a guide to creating fancy dress ensembles, France, 1920s. Crossword puzzles were a major fad at the time, so this is less nerdy in context than it looks. (The hot gamer girl of 100 years ago?)

The great thing about Canadian clothing brands is they can truthfully add Paris and London to the label for that bit of extra ✨ haute glamour ✨ Ontario? What's that?

My Christmas cactus is in full bloom on Halloween, we stan a floral goth icon.

Got my creepy fascinator ready for trick or treating. Bonus black and white for those "waiting on set to shoot the spider attack scene" vibes.

I don't have a proper costume this year (though I do have a giant spider hat to wear trick or treating later) but I just realized that by holding a phone for these photos, that basically makes this a "Spiderwebs" by No Doubt costume. (Which is 25 next year, and "Leave a message and I'll call you back" has become even more sarcastic in that time.)

I had to stop and take a closer look at these pansies, because the blue seemed almost unreal. #florespondence

The Telematic House, 1983. Ugo La Pietra, Gianfranco Bettetini, Aldo Grasso; Milan Fair. Exploring electronic memory in the domestic space. (More: https://ugolapietra.com/en/the-1980s/the-telematic-house/)