Show Me Your Form!!!!

OK...finally got all my mini dress forms together and displayed on my wall over my vanity. So enjoy the photos...

This is the form that started it all for me...I found this one at Target years ago and fell in love with dress forms right then and there. So lovely and feminine!!!

This pink number reminds me of the dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in the film "Gentleman Prefer Blonds" when she sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" I found it at Gordman's a few weeks ago...

My other "Marilyn" form...or the one I call"va va va voom"...it's stunning in person. I found this one at Hobby Lobby about a month ago and just thought it was the coolest...

I guess you can call these pretties "saloon" dresses or "can can" dresses. Which ever you prefer, they are very feminine and pretty. The one on the right looks almost like a wedding dress.

More of my form collection with a small trinket box in the center with a dress form on top...

More of the collection...with a mirror form and a form hanging from a hanger...

Another view...

It's this photo box just too cute?!

Movie Monday is BACK!!!! Featuring A Date with Judy

Sorry for the long delay...it's been a very busy two weeks since my last Movie Monday entry...so here it goes...

Movie poster: A Date with Judy

I have to admit that I love old Hollywood films...they are some of the most fun to watch...and even some of the most heartbreaking. However, A Date with Judy is one of the more lighthearted ones I've ever watched. I think I caught the movie on either channel 5 or 9, they were independent stations in Los Angeles when I was a kid growing up in the 1980's out there. I was charmed by Jane Powell as Judy and how beautiful Elizabeth Taylor looked as they played high school rivals, with Judy being the girl next door.

A Date with Judy started out as a popular radio show that was aimed at a teenage audience. The studio executives at MGM wanted to bring it to film because of the growing popularity of the radio show, and showcasing the beauty of former child star Elizabeth Taylor in full Technicolor. Jane Powell was chosen to play Judy because of her strong soprano and given that MGM distributed the film is was only natural to put in music, featuring Carmen Miranda and Xavier Cugat during scenes at the high school prom.

Jane Powell sings her heart out as Judy

A teenage Elizabeth Taylor as Carol Pringle and Judy's rival

The plot of the film centers around a prom and former best friends, Judy (Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) and their beaus. Judy's boyfriend Oogie Pringle decides not to take her to the dance and she by chance meets Stephen Andrews (Robert Stack), and who comes between Judy and Oogie.

Spring Cleaning Pulitzers and Musings

Photo: Beautiful Mess...trying to organize my cds!!!!

Sorry that I've been absent of late!!! With work, the Jennerbug and other writing projects this blog has, sadly taken a back seat!!!!! I really prefer blogging via my laptop rather than on my Blackberry...that is when the laptop version downloads properly and I don't have to wait a million years.

Anyways, I closed my storage unit and got a bunch of stuff out, so I've been putting on the tunes, and whistling while I work organizing books, cds and nic nacks.

Doing so has me stressed out. I made a sizable dent on Sunday, but still have to put some things away. I really don't know where yet. I do want to go to Gordman's and see what they have in the way of hanging shelves, although my fave store Target does have hanging shelves, they really didn't catch my eye. Too boring or plain. I thought of displaying my miniature dress forms on the wall above my vanity would look nice. We'll see!!!

Movie Mondays will start up again next Monday...I have one already mapped out, and wanted to work on it last night, but my article for the Examiner was first priority. So I'm going to save "A Date with Judy" next week.

Also, my short story, "The Audition" will hopefully be done in time to be posted on my website Saturday. The character development is a bit flat, and that is something I need to work on. There is only so many hours in the day and it drives me batty that I cannot get things done in a timely fashion.

Congrats to the Des Moines Register for winning the Pulitzer for their photo taken by Mary Chind of waters overtaking a couple who's boat went over a dam and the rescue effort in progress made the Pulitzer committee take notice. This is the paper's 16th Pulitzer, and I know how every journalist and writer strives for this prestigious award! Best Fiction went to Iowa Writer's Workshop alum Paul Harding for his novel "Tinkers."