Log Lady * Who Wore it Best?
Catherine E. Coulson as the “Log Lady” Everett Collection (wsj.com)
Erika Hines as the “Log Lady”
Mia So EnDEERing
And this was our holiday card.
Mia So Elfin Cute
Merry Kitschmas!
Yoda Mia So
“When you look at the dark side, careful you must be… for the dark side looks back.” ~Yoda
Mia So Bread Head
All my friends are bread.
Mia So Punk'N Pie
“YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME?!”
Mia So Gourdgeous
Cutest Pumpkin in the patch
Mia So One in a Minion
Mia So Amelia
We are paying homage to American superstar aviator, Amelia Earhart.
When I look at this adorable photo, the song Bouncing Off Clouds by Tori Amos pops inside my head. In fact, sometimes I don’t like to title Mia So Frenchie photos with an on the nose name. Half the fun for me is coming up with a clever name. Mia So Aviator and Mia So Bouncing Off the Clouds were strong contender titles. Ultimately I settled with Mia So Amelia.
“After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying.”
I styled Mia’s airplane similar to Amelia Earharts’s Lockheed Vega 5B. And I found a simple DIY cardboard airplane tutorial, here.
Mia So Beetlejuice! BeetleJuice!! BEETLEJUICE!!!
Beetlejuice!BeetleJuice!!
BEETLEJUICE!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Mia So Dr. Frenchiestein
What else is one to do at 4 o’clock in the morning, make a silly spooky video, of course. Enjoy! While doing a quick dress rehearsal with the wig for Mia’s Halloween photo-shoot last weekend, I thought this would be brilliant for a mad scientist. So I immediately got to work with planning and brainstorming. I thought about the 1974 cult classic film, Young Frankenstein, and began to frame the theme around that. A very special shout out err uh, Howl Out to Stella and Milo for loaning us their Bark Shop Frankenstein Monster toy doll. We squeezed this one in last minute just for you, so you’re welcome. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s Halloween photo premiere, “It’s Showtime! “
Mia So Creepin' Up With the Ghouls
GET THE LOOK!
One Almost Nakey Frenchie *I left on her pink spiked collar.
Mia So Monroe
“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
Mia So Smurfy
Smurfette is one of the characters from the 1958 Belgian comic strip, (French: Les Schtroumpfs) The Smurfs created by cartoonist, Peyo and later, Hanna-Barbera’s 1981 cartoon show, Smurf’s Adventures. Smurfette was created by the evil wizard Gargamel, the Smurf’s long-standing enemy, in order to spy on them and sow jealously throughout their village. But much to his chagrin, the overwhelming love and goodness of the Smurfy way of life made her want to be a real Smurf and live in harmony with them. So Papa Smurf cast a spell which transformed her into a real Smurf. And the rest is history.
Full disclosure, we dabbled a wee bit with photoshop to alter the color of Mia’s face to fully capture that Smurfy look. Oddball conspiracy theories aside, Stop trying to destroy my already fragile childhood! I was a huge fan of The Smurfs growing up. When I was 18 years old I would set my alarm to wake up at 4 in the morning just to watch an hour of re-aired Smurfs episodes and then go back to sleep for a few hours before I needed to get up and get ready for work. My auntie and uncle, who I was living with at the time thought it was completely bonkers. Looking back, I have to admit it was quite a Smurfy commitment and it gives me a little chuckle thinking about it. I can now understand them being perplexed then.
La la la-la la la la-la la …
Mia So Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!
Mia So This Many Weeks Old
Mia @ 6 weeks old.
Mia @ 631 weeks old.
As we’re gearing up for Mia’s Gotcha Day! 12 year anniversary happening in exactly two weeks, I thought it would be cute to attempt a recreation of one of her baby photos similar to what we did last year for her Gotcha Day!. And what perfect timing than to re-enact her 6-week old photo. We were fortunate that our breeder and friend allowed us to visit Mia every few weeks leading up to us getting to take her home. I believe it helped establish a strong bond between us well before she left her littermates and fur mamma. It made the transition all the more pleasant for us all. If you don’t know the story of how Mia and I met and became a couple, you can read about it here. Clearly we didn’t exactly nail it, but I love her back legs in both photos. She just wasn’t feeling exactly chill enough to relax on my not so comfortable leg and look at Kari while she snapped the photo. Well, we tried.
Mia So Frida
Today we’re honouring Frida Kahlo. Born July 6, 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico, Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. She died July 13, 1954, at the devastatingly young age of 47. Here are a few facts and quotes. But please visit the website, fridakahlo.org for more info and to view her pieces.
Two famous movies have been made on her life:
Numerous articles, books and documentaries have been made about Kahlo's life and art, including the bestseller Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo (1983) by Hayden Herrera. The movie 'Frida, Naturaleza viva' was released in 1983 and was a huge success. In 2002 another biographical film 'Frida', in which Salma Hayek plays her role, grossed over $US 50 million and won two Academy Awards.
She is known as the master of Self-Portraits
In her career, Frida Kahlo created 143 paintings out of which 55 are self-portraits. Kahlo said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." Her self portraits often include interpretations of physical and psychological wounds. Frida Kahlo's self-portraits are considered among the finest ever created. Her most famous self-portrait is perhaps Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.
She became famous a couple of decades after her death
Kahlo died 20 days after her 47th birthday on July 26, 1954. A few days before her death, she wrote in her diary: "I hope the exit is joyful - and I hope never to return - Frida". Kahlo was moderately successful during her lifetime and it was only several years after her death that her work became widely acclaimed. During her lifetime she was mainly known in Mexico as Rivera's wife, now she is popular worldwide and Rivera is known as her husband.
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.” ~ Frida Kahlo
Sources: Facts and Quotes: FridaKahlo.org / Fan Art: Clipart: clipartstation.com/frida-kahlo-clipart/Mia So Minnie
Mia So 2020 Moodboard
COVID-19 ruined year 2020. I mean, am I right?.