NY Has Been Sassy Vamped!

Or perhaps I should say Desified? One blustery, snowing day last week a parcel arrived much to my surprise. Within it was treasure from the glorious Desireé! A parcel for Gwensday Addams and myself. We got Sassy Vamped!

Gwensday's parcel was wrapped up very girly, with a postcard from Frankenweenie! She giggled at the dichotomy! Inside was a magnificent Sassy Vamps headband in the perfect shade for Gwensday's green hair -- black! She put it on right away! Also included were a pair of very cool (so cool mum may "borrow" them) vintage 80s sunglasses from the AU designer Maggie T.

Pretty vintage fabric, a pink bow and "Weird Girl" postcard which Gwensday LOVED!

Ack sorry, no idea why its sideways! The sunglasses look so cool on her as well!

In my parcel, which was wrapped with what I at first thought was beautiful vintage fabric, was a Sassy Vamps headband in the perfect shade for me -- GREEN! It's just a shade off from my living room walls, so how is that for perfection? Turns out the wrapping was a beautiful tea towel, my first from AU! (And now being used in the kitchen!)

Wrapped up all pretty with a vintage postcard of a vintage bathing beauty, which I love!

The gorgeous tea towel and my Sassy Vamps headband in the perfect shade of green! Its so pretty, I'm keeping ti on display in the living room when not in use! Desireé you know me too well!

Zombie without caffeine! I think I need to wave my hair to wear my "crown" properly, my hair looks too thin this way -- I need some volume!

When bitching to my husband that he gets to be the grand high poobah, wear a special hat, sit on a throne, and what does the first lady get? Squat. Not even a damn tiara. He immediately retaliated with "You got a crown from Australia, now you're Priscilla Queen of the Desert!" So shall it be dubbed from now on!

Thank you so much Desireé for thinking of us, you are the sweetest, sexiest Sassy Vamp around!

Hmm what can you imagine is inside this tureen, festooned by daffodils?

Why homemade potato leek soup of course!

I usually make it thicker, almost stew-like, but for some reason I wanted soupy. And it was delish!  Except the daffodils didn't ward off winter like I'd hoped ):

As a side note, the plain brown wrapping (oh so discreet!) has been ripped up and added to my compost pile. I smiled as I was doing it not only for the compost (and ripping paper is my therapy!) but because now Desireé is now a part of helping our garden grow -- imagine that, all the way from the other side of the world, my compost is that much richer for Desireé's lovely parcel!

For those of you who where asking for photos of me in my new arctic/ blue fox coat, here you go! Hair freshly re-pinked too (but ignore the pre-caffeine face scrunched up face!)

Toasty warm, with pink-ified hair!

Lastly, I don't recall mentioning, but I'm finally glasses free! They've been the bane of my existence since I have to wear them all the time. I forget to take them off, then while reading doze off only to wake with a swollen nose and cuts on my cheekbones. Ew. I finally gave up and tried again, this time with success as they've finally made great strides in multi-focal lenses. The only problem is that I have green eyes, like olive green, with lots of yellow and orange. The slight blue tinge to the contacts cancels out all the green and I look like I have brown eyes! Now it wouldn't have been so bad if I was used to that, but at 53, I like my green eyes. And multi-focal lenses don't come in colours ): I found a solution though after doing a ton of research. You can indeed layer lenses. They need to be thin, not the theatrical kind (see my Halloween posts for that type), and you put them under your prescription lenses. I got one pair, not realising just how delicate they were so they were quickly destroyed. So I ordered again, this time green and hazel (hazel contacts actually make my eyes look more like their normal colour because of the orange and yellow flecks) and they're whisking their way to me as I write this. I can't wait to have green eyes again!

XXX

Jet