Filed under: Messy Recipes & Nutrition | Tags: brain freeze, snow, snow cream, snow recipe, strawberry
Snow is cold. Snow makes going out difficult. But, snow is very pretty to look at, & when it’s not yellow, you can also eat it!
Strawberry Snow Cream Recipe
- 1 pint chopped strawberries
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 tbsp vanilla or nut extract
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- a pile of fresh snow (not yellow)
In a giant bowl, mash chopped strawberries, sugar, & nut extract to a smushy pulp.
Mix in sweetened condensed milk, then begin adding snow. I like to collect the first layer that sits atop my car – it’s usually the cleanest.
Mix until the soupy mixture turns to something like ice cream. I’m telling you it will take much snow!
Gobble sparingly to avoid brain freeze!
Filed under: Wardrobery: Fashion & Costume | Tags: cat ears, Empress Mess, hat, knit hat, messydress, winter hat
Wintertime Is Hat Time !, originally uploaded by Messy Empress.Filed under: Wardrobery: Fashion & Costume | Tags: 8x10, Contemporary Photography : Past Is Present, Empress Mess, Mackall House, Messydres, Neo-Victorian, photography, The Iguanodon Portraits, Victorian, Will Atkins, William Atkins
Filed under: Wardrobery: Fashion & Costume | Tags: Barnes & Noble, Barnes & Noble night, Bren Mar Park elementary, fundraiser, monsters, Where The Wild Things Are
AHH Real Monsters !, originally uploaded by Messy Empress.
I had a big, fuzzy time hanging with monsters at the Barns & Noble Where The Wild Things Are fundraiser!
The event was lovingly arranged by my friend & creative kindred Shoshanna Cichy! Percentages of sales that night & through Dec 10th went to benefit Bren Mar Park Elementary.
My assignment : to be & to make others be monsters! I got to put all the volunteers in fur suits & horns, & the little monsters attending got glittery face paintings!
The best thing though? Technicolour dream whiskers, kid-crafted just for me ! I’ll see if I can’t get a fad going!
^_^
Filed under: Wardrobery: Fashion & Costume | Tags: Empress Mess, faux meats, feast, Kollin Bliss, meat, meat bikini, messydress, pin-up, steak, Uber Delix, Velocity
Velocity rocked the hell outta my meat bikini & turkey platter headpiece!
Photography / Chef ~
Kollin Bliss
Model / MU ~
Velocity
More of this set here!
Fact : I’ve worn both of these pieces in public! Would you wear faux meats around?
Filed under: Wardrobery: Fashion & Costume, Whimsy & Fantasy | Tags: Du Yang, Du Yang Fashion, knits, winter clothes, Yang Du
I have decided that all I want to wear this winter is Du Yang!
I want this sweater ..
.. and these hats ..
.. and this, whatever it is ..
.. and this giraffe suit ( although I’d have to wear a coat on top but that’s ok because I can still show it off indoors)!
Please buy me all of these for xmas, k? THX!!
^__^
Filed under: Wardrobery: Fashion & Costume | Tags: Empress Mess, Kencredible, Kenn Penn, Liilii Lipstick, Lipstick Ninja, messydress
Turns that ..
..into this!
Photography / Electrical Storm ~ Kencredible
Model / MU ~ Liilii Lipstick
Sketch / Clear Sculptures / Hotpants Provider ~ Messydress!
Filed under: Wardrobery: Fashion & Costume | Tags: cereal, cereal box, Cocoa Puffs, dollskin, Empress Mess, free shirt, iron on, iron on transfer, messydress, Mr. Men, Mr. Messy, prize
Imagine my jealousy when I saw this shirt on some random toddler! How come kids always get the best clothes, it’s so unfair! Well, the coveted shirt is now mine, thanks to General Mills! Take that, toddlers!
We’re talking transfers, cats! Different cereals have different characters – Mr. Messy comes with the Cocoa Puffs.
It came out really good, I think! I used a 100% cotton shirt in that shade they call dollskin, despite the instruction to use an “all white poly/cotton blend” only. My shirt worked just fine, & made for a faded vintage effect.
The box provides a second transfer as well .. a smelly sock! These photos didn’t show the sock though, so you’ll have to go nab a box yourself to check it out!
The warning is hilarious right? I suppose someone, someplace, is sitting home right now with a bowl of Coco Puffs & a burnt boob!
Filed under: Living Art, Whimsy & Fantasy | Tags: Mayor McCheese, McDonald's playground, metal climbers, metal playground equipment, old playground equipment, playground, playground furniture, vintage climbers, vintage McDonald's, vintage playground
I love old playground equipment! In my free & ignorant childhood, I mistakenly took these fantastic structures for granted! I mean, they look like stuff!
Like dinosaurs ..
..and tugboats!
Did I mention dinosaurs?!
I never thought there would come a day when I’d have to trade these wrought & welded behemoths in for cold, slippery, safe plastic structures. I miss the feel of thick, globbed-on paint & warm iron bars on my bare palms & knees!
I miss old McDonald’s equipment the most!
Those crap plastic climbers, you can’t get to the top without falling! You’re not supposed to climb on top .. what’s the fun in that?
As soon as I get a yard, I’m starting a collection! Or maybe re-creating some myself .. anyone out there a decent welder? Serious inquiries accepted!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alice is a dissapointment, club kids suck, fuck you, soapy pukeshake, uninspiration, you'd look better on fire
Since I’ve been so uninspired lately, I’ve decided to perpetuate the sad fact with the following list of responsible uninspiring online topics :
- What you’re wearing, & where you got it. Not only have you provided evidence of your outstanding ability to put on clothes, but your flickr stream proves once & for all that you are A) not colourblind, B) know your way around Target, & C) totally under the impression that you’re doing something artistic. Looking awesome is a public service, like driving inside the lines. It’s not effing architecture.
- Woah, you’re psyched to see Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, arncha?! Doesn’t Johnny Depp totally not look like his Willy Wonka character? Besides, who could mind all those really bad special effects when the makeup looks so avant garde? So this is what tripping must be like!
- Oh snap! Lady Gaga is making waves with her stage costumes & political agenda, what on earth is stopping you? Nothing apparently! You’re a talented singer/songwriter, you just never had the guts to drop an Itune before you saw “Poker Face” in Gagavision! Now there’s a whole club kid community to support your prancing about in a bra with 3D glasses on! You look cool, & you’re doing something epic! Kudos, superstar!
- Fuck that pumpkin milkshake from McDonalds, tastes like soapy puke! Sorry, no sarcasm in that one.
(**excerpt added later : excuse the nastiness factor of this post; I chalk it up to having spent five days inside with swine flu)
