'Postcard From 1952' New music video by Explosions in the Sky starring...Us

It's finally done. We've been waiting to see the finished version and to share with our friends this beautiful tiny film. The band: Explosions in the Sky (a wonderful Texas band). Directors Annie Gunn and Peter Simonite.

This project is close to my heart because Annie is an old friend of mine (who actually was the photographer at my wedding), Peter is her mega talented and kind sweetheart, our fake family Ryan (Wolfie) Hall and Kathleen the Fashion Queen are the kissing couple, Evan (my husband, Tacks the Boy Disaster) has a short cameo on the piano, Rachael Morgan did the 1950s makeup (she married my old high school chum AND did my hair in my wedding, and Ruby's first haircut) her handsome son Memphis plays the boy in the coonskin cap and of course, Ruby and I are the bubble girl and mom. (Jesse missed his chance at stardom when we had to leave set for naptime)

Aside from being surrounded by my favorite people, I am completely honored to be part of something so well done and gorgeous. The song is epic, the lighting dreamy, the period costumes and set impeccable. I cried the first time I saw it and I hope you thoroughly enjoy the the next 7:06 minutes of your life.

Wolfie on kissing his hot girlfriend: "IT WAS SO HARD BUT I THINK I DID AWESOME"

Here is a short article about it. 
(the video, not kissing)

Still from video of Ruby about to catch a bubble

original inspiration for Ruby's character

inspiration for Wolfie and Kathleen

Through the Looking Glass Vintage

You know how boys like to divide pretty girls into two categories, The Girl Next Door a.k.a. "MaryAnn" or The Glamorous Model/Starlet a.k.a. "Ginger"? Well, they do. I hang out with a lot of boys. BOYS! BE JEALOUS. This is my girl next door:

It's Kathleen, the Fashion Queen and she's taking over Austin with her beautiful projects. She and partner in crime Maggie have just launched an online vintage store, Through the Looking Glass Vintage with fresh handpicked treasures every week and styled to perfection by the clothes mavens themselves.

So, if you have ever wished that you had a gorgeous fashion model with impeccable taste and a master's degree in psychology to personally pick your clothes, take a picture of how to accessorize them, then send them to you in the mail...well, you're welcome.

As if this weren't enough, she's the manager of one of the hippest coffee houses in town and continues to baffle the more testosterone-fueled musicians in the scene by the overnight rise to popularity of their all girl band Feathers, playing drum heavy, dreamy dance songs and rivaling Bowie in stage dress. Of course.

Sorry guys, she's taken.




*anyone recognize that fetching bone necklace? Bazow!

Coffee and comraderie

Thank God for friends and coffee. They keep me sane, speaking in full sentences and smiling.