So.
I rant the random number generator twice and got….

For the Deco Dress: Candice

and For the Meridian Dress: Azure

making
Candice and Azure the winners!
Congratulations you two!!
I’ll be putting you in touch with the folks at INES.

Thank you thank you to everyone for entering, hopefully I’ll have some more giveaways for you all soon!

So, that Printed Cobalt dress I wore in the 3rd Fat Rant:

It’s from INES, a clothing line run by some friends of mine who have decided to hooook us UP, Internet. Let me tell you.

They’re giving me 2 pieces to raffle off to YOU, dear readers. All you’ve got to do is comment below, and on Dec. 4th I’ll use one of those handy random number generators like Gabi does to pick a winner!

The pieces up for grabs are the Deco Print Wrap Dress seen above and the Meridian Print Dress.

AND, they’ve hooked me up with a 40% off sales code for you too:
ineslovesjoynash

Spread it far and wide! , personally- I’m really into this Peacock print top: .

I’ll let you know what it’s like when it comes in…

Happy Turkey Day, Internet!
I hope yours was as much fun as mine was.
I drove my smartcar across the desert with this guy:

and then ate and looked at babies until I fell asleep.
Josh Nash would like the ladies of the internet to know that he is Single and Looking.
I awoke to messages that my dear friend Michael (the Fruit of Fruit & Fly) had MISSED the entire city of San Diego on his way to his cousin’s house, and was instead in Tijuana being searched by border patrol.
I haven’t heard from him since, but hopefully he’s no longer in Mexico, and is in a well-deserved food coma.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!

So I bought this awful dress a few weeks ago.

Total mess.
Shoulder pads, a hidden button placket and a bunch of other misery. I liked the bottom half of it though, and decided to make it into just a skirt.

First I chopped it in half.

Then I bought a little spool of ribbon from the craft store.

It wasn’t as wide as I wanted it to be, so I cut it in half and sewed the sides together with my ancient little sewing machine.

Then I sewed it to the top of the bottom of the dress.

I put in a snap and a hook and eye, tied the ends of the ribbons together and tried it on with some sweaters.

The end!

If you’re in LA this Saturday, Oct 3rd, 2009, I will be making my Geffen Playhouse debut in “OOOoogy Green and Other Fables” as part of the Geffen’s Saturday Scene series for children!
OOOoogy Green is the story of a catepillar who nobody likes. He’s afraid to be different, but with the help of puppets, music and some fables, his friends teach him that what makes him different is what makes him special! I play a butterfly.

The original production of this show at the Celebration Theatre received a Critic’s Pick in Backstage Magazine.
The show starts at 11 am and is appropriate for kids ages 3 and up. One Performance Only!!

Oct. 3, 2009
Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tickets are $15.
Call: 310-208-5454.

If you are not a child, or interested in children’s theatre, but would still like to catch me on stage, I’m also starring in Ray Bradbury’s “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena.

Five Latinos from East LA each chip in $20 to buy one $100 vanilla-ice-cream-white summer suit. Each has big plans for what he’ll accomplish once he looks the way he will in that suit, but trouble brews when it’s the neighborhood ne’er-do-well’s turn to wear their prized possession. I play a floozy.

LA Times review

7 more weekends of shows!
Opens on Sat Sept 26th
Closes on Nov 14th
Fri/Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm

Fremont Centre Theatre
1000 Fremont Avenue
South Pasadena, CA 91030

Ticket Prices:
$10 Preview
$20 General Admission
$15 Seniors
$10 Student

Reservations
(323) 960-4451

Since Anthropologie won’t make clothing in my size, I’ve gotten a little arty farty.

Last winter I brought a suitcase of stuff to sell at Re/Dress and got $270 in store credit, so I was a little less picky than I usually am when it comes to choosing clothing on which to spend my money.
I found this unbelivably comfortable, really flattering, linen/cotton knit dress in this horrifying coral/olive/cream varigated pattern and figured I’d get a little creative.
My shopping accomplice thought $50 was way too much to spend on an experiment, but in my estimation, it was free money! If it was a disaster, all I would be out was some free money.

So, first I bought a box of RIT dye and tried to get my mom to let me use her washing machine to dye it. She had a heart attack when I suggested such a thing and sent me into her kitchen with a giant pot.

The pot turned out fine and I had a fancy raspberry dress! I wore it a couple times in that state, but since it was knit, it started to get a little droopy and since it was knit, I was scared to just chop off and hem the droops. Instead, with the assistance of my duct-tape dress form, I pinched up a bunch of pieces and safety-pinned them as if my dress was a fancy wedding cake.

Then, I sewed a bunch of buttons to each other, one on either side of the fabric lumps so that the dress stress was more on the buttons and less on the knit.

I think it turned out pretty decently. I don’t know what’s gonna happen when I try to wash it.. I’ll probably wait a reaally long time, and then get it dry cleaned.

Dress: Re/Dress, dyed and weddingcaked by me!
Shoes: Ross
Bag/Earrings: Goodwill

Then I got this dress from Jen’s Fashion Plus, but I didn’t really like the roll-highlighting action it had going on. So I tied part of it in a knot and stuck a safety pin deep down inside so it wouldn’t come out, and then wrapped those side straps around front and up over my bra straps like some of that convertible-wrap dress nonsense, and that was it. I now have a fancy dress and no place to wear it to.

Anyone know any gainfully employed heterosexual bears in Southern California who might like to take me on a date?
I hear this one’s taken.

Thanks.

x-posted here n there.

Amazing things I’ve seen this week:

Newsweek breaking free from the herd:
Why America Hates Fat People

Fat and Healthy: Why It’s Possible

Send Newsweek pictures of yourself being fat and active.

The Sartorialist wants to take pictures of fat people too, but he says we won’t let him.

But best of all, the World Beard and Moustache Championships.

Thanks Margarita!!!

I know I’ve been MIA here for a while now, but I have a really good excuse.

I’ve been hard at work on a production of Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig at the Repertory East Playhouse in Santa Clarita. I’m playing Helen alongside a really really great cast.. I’ll post a teaser trailer here as soon as it’s up.

We open July 10th and run for 3 weeks on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, until closing on Saturday, July 25th. Tickets are $18. -available at http://www.repeastplayhouse.org or by calling 661.288.000

I’ve been literally fantasizing about playing this part since I first read about Ashlie Atkinson in 2004. If you’re anywhere in the LA area- please please come and check us out!