VANITY FAIRE

If you do drag and don't know who Vanity is, gurl...who best expand your horizons! Any drag who drags has at least one wig creation from this queen. And if you're a fan of many well-known queens, most likely you've seen this queens work. Vanity Faire had a lifelong affair with wigs and makeup, he has toured the world as a successful makeup artist, a wig stylist, and drag performer. Vanity's artistic passion developed at a very young age, and fresh out of school decided to pursue a career in hairdressing. Not content with the simple life he packed his bags and moved to Sydney's Oxford Street where he felt right at home and Vanity Faire was born and became a full-fledged drag queen, where she stood out from the pack. Can you say Ultra Glam? It wasn't long before legendry queen, Carlotta, of Les Girls snapped her up for her touring drag show. While Vanity still does drag and performs with a busy schedule, in 2006 she and Courtney Act officially launched Wigs by Vanity and to some it would appear their new lace front wigs appeared within the drag community virtually overnight. Some queens will only wear a lace front wig. While they searched worldwide for a source that could produce these wigs at an afforded cost for drag queens, some companies charge up to $1,000 for a lace front....Vanity took it upon herself to learn the art of lace front wig making, and all these years later the joint company has blown up....Vanity's work on wigs are beautiful, big, full, glamorous and with undetectable hairlines and affordable... not to mention made by a drag queen for drag queens! And kids...Vanity is stunning to boot, and a hell of a performer. I'll have to share Vanity creations one day. 

Vanity Faire

HESTER FRUMP

If there is one thing I love, it's a campy, snarky, fashionable character. And as we are aware I watch very little American tv offerings, but one I fell in love with was Wednesday, a take on the life of Wednesday Addams. The first season was incredibly done. Plus, it had Gwendoline Christy. As if it could get any better, Burton went this season and added a Patron Saint of mine, the stunning Joanna Lumley to the cast as Hester Frump! A huge fan since the days of Jam and Jerusalem and, of course, Absolutely Fabulous...the actress can do no wrong. She has given a new life and purpose to a character we knew little of from previous incarnations of the show and movie, and grandma was basically nothing more than a bumbling mumbling side piece that time forgot in a gothic mansion. Lumley at 79, joined the cast at Tim Burton's request and so she lends her talents across this side of the pond playing Hester Frump as the wealthy and fashionable matriarch of the Frump family, and the owner of the largest outcast business in America, Frump Mortuaries. She is snarky, insulting, cold and sharp tongued, and is also the mother of Morticia Addams and Ophelia Frump. And while she has a good strong understanding relationship with her granddaughter Wednesday, she as a ghastly one with her own daughter Morticia. Staring with her disapproval of her marriage to Gomez. Needless to say, she is the first character in some time I have loved on a program. I dare say Absolutely Ghastly!

Her first appearance of the season was excellent! The only way to make me orgasm would be to add Helena Bonham Carter to the cast yet.

MOOD BOARD

 

I have a big old pot ready this morning! Hello ...and hope everyone had a fabulous weekend. I had a pretty good one, mostly busy with an event at the showroom on Saturday for a few hours and spent Sunday in the garden clipping and cleaning away browned and expired flowers and plants for the season...as the Season of Dead approaches. Thank heavens for the roses, salvia and a few other stalwarts giving us some color still. But it's another Monday, and of course we can never postpone Monday...except this week I did, I took off today since I worked Saturday! I nice lie in. I also enjoyed my first fire in the firepit of the season last night. It smelled heavenly. Along with a nice red wine.

The US currently! 

 Happy Monday dears!

USUAL SUSPECTS

 What with busy weekends and being away with travels, it's been a while since we have checked in with some of the usual suspects in the garden at the Casa du Borghese and the adjoining wood.  Still going through bird seed left and right. They must LOVE the special blend I get at True Value. I have also been seeing deer enter the yard in addition to the Red-Tailed Hawk being back and the white squirrel was seen again. Last week I was pottering around the garden when I heard a heck of a ruckus coming from behind me, only to find the hawk on the ground, with one of the squirrels in its clutches. Needless to say, the hawk has been catching a few birds and at least one chipmunk too. He's been seen every day this week, so I named him, Jabberwock. The only thing to come to mind to tell the usual suspects was from Alice in Wonderland- 

"Beware the Jabberwock my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch." 

Bouvier II

Carnage...Jabberwock got a garden mouse.

The first Balitmore Oriole I have ever seen around here.

A pileated Woodpecker. It looked huge!

More carnage....a small rabbit.

And my breakfast today! What weekends are for!