urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit waxfruit kaytet@gmail.com waxfruit 2005-02-27T19:29:58Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:66910 2005-02-27T19:24:43Z 2005-02-27T19:25:19Z mr. waxfruit and i decided to stay close to home this weekend and be a cliche williamsburg couple.<br />friday night we went out to metropolitan and met up with a couple of friends. if all of life could be like a gay bar i would be a happy woman. <br />saturday i did some sewing and then we wandered around town to look for shirts. mr. waxfruit has been expanding his wardrobe lately to include adorably tight cowboy shirts with pearly snaps and i could not be happier. <br /><br />last night we were going to go to this fun warehouse party by the water with justin, my old roommate. we got all dressed and color coordinated our outfits and justin was on his way. as we were walking over i was getting all giddy, telling adam all about map points and outlaw parties and my long-lost youth.<br />of course we arrive and of course it is at capacity because it was actually a garage and not a warehouse! grrr. i hate new york sometimes. everything is always at capacity unless you get there at nine and who the hell gets anywhere at nine? there are just too many people here and they all want to go out to the same fun place. oooh a warehouse party! how 1992! it will be a hoot! i need to develop less popular tastes.<br /><br />anyway, it's sunday and i am going to go to the newly opened k trim!!!! it's on grand now between driggs and roebling and it is so amazing! i freakin' love trims. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:63885 2005-01-12T22:51:25Z 2005-01-12T22:51:25Z i hope you had a fantastic day! it sounds like you party was super-fun too!<br />i have an (extremely late) gift for you. i promise i will send it (someday) soon. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:63650 2005-01-10T23:01:45Z 2005-02-27T19:29:58Z what great weekend full of fun things!<br />friday night i was a little sad and bloated (see my last post) but i managed to pull myself together and went out to see my friend's band, the isles, play at trash. mr waxfruit was working at this thing at the NY Times so i was on my own. it was fun. i saw some friends, had some free PBRs and then went home and snuggled with the mr.<br />saturday morning was a whirlwind of events. i woke up at 5:45 to escort at an abortion clinic in sunset park. my escorting partner was this guy marty, a life time resident of brooklyn, who told me all about cool neighborhoods that i didn't even know about. a chinatown in brooklyn? hello!!! the escorting part was fairly uneventful, i guess the rain and the cold discourages the religious right from getting all crazy-like.<br />at ten my shift was over and i took the subway over to my friend lori's house. she was taking pictures for blueduvet's website and i was to be one of the models. it was fun being a model! blueduvet's things are so pretty and feminine and lori is a great photographer. after that, i took the train back home with lorelei and her mom. i love meeting people's moms! <br />when i got home, mr. waxfruit and i had nachos, did some lounging and then his friend gabe came over to silk-screen. then we did some more lounging, ate some dinner and i made a card and a pin for my friend rachel, who just got a really great acting job and is quitting her crappy anthro job. <br />around eleven, we finally motivated and went to rachel's going away party at the beauty bar. it was fun and mr. waxfruit really bonded with rachel's boyfriend, who is a kick-ass magician and did fun card tricks for us. <br />on the way home, adam and i hit the dumpster for some bagels. it felt like old times and the bagels were awesome.<br />sunday was all about relaxing, doing laundry, cuddling and not spending more than four dollars each. good thing we found those bagels. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:62507 2005-01-03T00:21:08Z 2005-01-03T00:21:08Z -cake stands and domes<br />-salt and pepper shakers<br />-aprons<br />-decorative cake and jello molds<br />-antique letters and numbers<br />-medical models and posters<br />-some original art (perhaps a robert goulet?)<br />-old bathing suits<br />-small still lifes of fruit and bread and stuff.<br />-paint by numbers things.<br />-hatboxes and train cases to use for storage<br />-missmatched dinner plates<br /><br />please refer to this list on all major holidays or just when you want to make me happy. hahaha, just kidding. i would like to refer to this list over the course of the year for my own buying "needs" though. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:62405 2005-01-01T02:31:59Z 2005-01-01T02:31:59Z well, 2004 was pretty eventful. i fell in love, helped coordinate ladyfest, got way crafty...i even sold a few things.<br />so my plans for 2005:<br /><br />-start my website. i want to have it up by february or march and i want to quit my job by april or may (don't worry-i have savings). which brings me to the next resolution...<br />-quit my job. i have been threatening to do this forever and this year i actually will.<br />-move into a love-nest with adam only! decorate and make it ours.<br />-cook more. bring my lunch more, make coffee for myself in the morning instead of buying it.<br />-be more fabulous. 2004 made me a bit crunchy and earthmother-y. well, i think i need to get more fabulous again. you know, dress up, wear prettier undies, more red lipstick.<br />-read lots and lots. wean myself back off tv.<br />-get a tattoo and get my septum pierced. purely superficial but it is my plan.<br />-learn chinese with adam.<br />-learn to use a serger.<br />-get more organized.<br /><br />ok, i think that's enough. i feel like, fashion maven that i am, i always like to think that i am going to reinvent myself for the new year. this year is going to be all about fabulousness but on my own terms. yes i can wear saucy outfits and not shave my armpits!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:61742 2004-12-30T23:25:15Z 2004-12-30T23:25:15Z i still haven't gotten my secret snowflake.<br />i am sad.<br />i can't remember whether it was going to my work address or my home address. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:61327 2004-12-29T01:42:06Z 2004-12-29T01:42:06Z and anyone else interested:<br /><br />here is the link for those greeting card baggies i found. <br /><a href="http://www.craftercity.com">http://www.craftercity.com</a><br /><br />it's kind of a weird site but they seem to have what we are looking for.<br /><br />it was great seeing you today! i had lots of fun. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:61022 2004-12-28T05:31:57Z 2004-12-28T05:31:57Z mondays off kick ass.<br />i love days when i have the pleasure of seeing four lj friends (well five if you consider my mr. waxfruit) in one day.<br />i woke up around nine, had a nice long shower and then met wright and resurgam at the moma around eleven. it was freezing and totally crowded with crazy tourists but we did get to appreciate some art and have nice conversation (which is the real reason i hang out with those two anyway!).<br />then we walked west and had yummy thai food and talked some more. it was sad seeing resurgam off to the train at penn station. i wish she lived closer. <br />anyway, i went home to billy styles and bought a really nice faux fur coat that's super-warm and has great buttons. it was 30 bucks. i'm glad i resisted the temptation of more expensive coats last week. it was worth being cold! i went home with my booty, had a bagel with some homemade resurgam jam and sewed a whole bunch of stuff.<br />then around 9:30 i went out again to meet wax_lips for some burlesque at galapagos in williamsburg. our friend was debuting her burlesque identity. unfortunately she lost her keys and never made it. then ny sea showed uo and we just talked and had fun and watched scotty the blue bunny and he was so cute and tall and snarky.<br />i just love my lady friends! there is nothing in the world more gratifying than ladies you can say absolutely anything to. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:60628 2004-12-22T22:46:12Z 2004-12-22T22:46:12Z i am officially burnt out on holiday shopping. i guess working in retail makes you hate the very act of shopping. it becomes a chore. the last thing i want to do is leave my store and buy things at another store. eff that. and so, i did a lot of my shopping at anthro and made a bunch of stuff too. <br />i made another bunny (like the one i made for you windup) for my secret santa at work. he saw me making the first one and really wanted one for himself. i am currently in the process of finishing up my present for mr. waxfruit. i cannot yet reveal what i made for him but i think he's going to love it!<br />tomorrow night my dad, stepmother and brother are coming into town for dinner and tree watching. we are also going to get drinks at the rainbow room just for kicks. i am excited! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:60174 2004-12-20T03:34:07Z 2004-12-20T03:34:07Z happy birthday to the dearest and lovliest elf chick! and happy graduation too! i hope you had lots of cake! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:59399 2004-12-14T23:32:35Z 2004-12-14T23:32:35Z feral childe is having an opening on thursday night right around the corner from where i work and you should go with me!<br />they are a group of designers who had work in the ladyfest fashion show (karolina-you wore their crazy furry cape) and they are totally cool.<br /><br />FERAL CHILDE in SHERWOOD FOREST<br />December 16 through January 15<br />Opening Party Thurs 12/16, 6-8pm<br />Space Untitled/Culture Outlet<br />133 Greene Street betw Houston & Prince<br /><br />Hot off the press! Just when we thought we could rest easy from our<br />whirlwind adventures in California,<br />we're doing SHERWOOD FOREST at Space Untitled/Culture Outlet in<br />Soho,133 Greene Street. The opening party is this Thursday, 12/16, from<br />6-8pm. The installation will be on view through mid-January. We have<br />limited supplies of our furry, shiny, pretty things, so come Thursday<br />for best pickings of our Fall/Winter clothing and accessories!<br /><br />Also invited to the opening are well-socialized, non-peeing woofs of<br />all shapes and sizes. Doggie flash mob!<br /><br />let me know if you would like to go. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:59244 2004-12-14T04:50:37Z 2004-12-14T04:50:37Z i finished making my secret snowflake package and will be sending it out tomorrow. i am very happy with it.<br />that is all i am going to say.<br /><br />i have been sewing and watching old episodes of "curb your enthusiasm" all night whilst mr. waxfruit has been making scary political industrial music that makes me actually fear for my safety. sorry dear, you know i love you.<br /><br />tomorrow begins the first of three (!!!) store walkthroughs this week. walkthroughs feature me and a few of the other store managers sucking up to the upper echelons of the company. i also have to dress nicely. for those of you who think this should not be a problem for me, think again. dressing nicely means clothes that don't have holes in them, skirts that aren't too short, shoes that don't have scuffed heels held together with duct tape. as an example, today the district manager told me that my outifit was cute and perfectly appropriate for a walkthrough. that is until i raised my arm and revealed a big hole in the armpit and a thick tuft of armpit hair. blah. whenever i am faced with the challenge of dressing nicely it always comes in the way of dressing fashionably and i hate that.<br /><br />c'mon mr. waxfruit. time for bed. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:58908 2004-12-14T00:45:31Z 2004-12-14T00:45:31Z well i bought the domain name for my future website. it's cutefactory.com.<br />i will sell clothing, accessories and cards. adam will sell screenprinted awesomeness. we will make pillows and animals together.<br /><br />and so, kayte will need to stop procrastinating, perhaps quit her job and finally pursue her small dream in life: to make things for a living. <br /><br />the goal is to get a small little site set up by mid january so if anyone knows of someone who sould make a supremely cute and kayte-like site i'm all over it. i can supply art and stuff but i am no good at web design. i can pay with real live money, just not too much. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:58692 2004-12-13T02:35:33Z 2004-12-13T02:35:33Z hey jangrl! happy birthday!! i hope you had a great day.<br /><br />i just got back from the bizarre bazaar in boston and it was tons of fun! i would definitely like to sell my stuff there next year. the vendors were all super-nice, had great, well-priced things *and* i got to say hi to tara of plainmabel. i hadn't seen her since all the glitterati first met in bryant park. what a long time ago. it was really really crowded which meant it was hard to navigate but i bet it was great for sales!<br /><br />anyway, lorelei and i took the bus up on friday night and stayed with a friend of hers. we pretty much just crashed when we got to cambridge but on saturday we walked around a bunch and went to a cool glass flowers exhibit at the museum of natural history. lorelei and i talked about how much we like charts of flowers and birds and insects especially and how much mr. waxfruit and i want medical models and charts of things when we get our dream house.<br /><br />we walked around a bit more and then went to the bazaar. i bought a tote bag that says "biclycles are for lovers", and a bunch of cards, three of which are depictions of anatomically correct hearts, with which i am completely obsessed right now. <br /><br />after that we went out for cambodian food which was good but really over-priced and not really worth it. oh well.<br /><br />sunday morning we went to trader joes and our t.j's starved new york selves bought tons of snacks for the bus trip back. <br /><br />we got back to new york a whole lot earlier than expected and i called mr. waxfruit to tell him i was on my way and he said that pat and eunice were over just hanging out. what a cool surprise! they hung out for a while and then mr. waxfruit and i spent the rest of the night cuddling and doing stuff. sigh. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:58573 2004-12-10T01:18:03Z 2004-12-10T01:18:03Z i just had to get involved didn't i?<br /><a href="http://supernaturale.com/glitter/viewtopic.php?t=8471&start=90">http://supernaturale.com/glitter/viewtopic.php?t=8471&start=90</a><br /><br />i couldn't keep my big mouth shut.<br />eh, whatever. i am so tired of fucking glitter. i just wish tsia would pull the plug and start a new secret site. that is horrible but i just don't care anymore. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:57958 2004-12-04T19:53:53Z 2004-12-04T19:53:53Z last night was one of the most fun nights i've had out in a loong time.<br /><br />after work i met lilacchickens and we had yummy vietnamese food. then we went over to the make workshop sale and bought some stuff.<br /><br />i bought an awesome tshirt made by my former "a-line skirt class" teacher. i wore the skirt that i made in the class cos i'm a big dork. oh and i also wore a tshirt that i made this week and showed it to cal (the teacher and part owner of make) and she was like "kayte that it beautiful! you should have sold stuff at the sale. we at least have to do a tshirt trade!" then she called diana (the other owner) over and they took a picture of me and my shirt. i was totally excited. i really need to get on the ball about all this stuff. i am tired of being half-assed in my life.<br /><br />lilacchickens took off and then blueduvet, her boy and lacey (our ladyfest pal) and i went and had some food and drinks. well they had food, i had drinks. then my lovely deadsweater (also known as mr. waxfruit) biked over.<br />we all walked down to mulberry street to this crazy karaoke bar for katrina's (another ladyfest lady) birthday.<br /><br />we got there first and it was a little scary. it was mostly older people doing frank sinatra songs and a really drunk rowdy table of drunk frat-ish dudes. i wondered how they would be handling the large rowdy group of (mostly) lesbians that would be showing up in minutes.<br /><br />well, the night ended up being totally fun and silly. our group totally took over and katrina had tons of fun. oh and it turns out that mr. waxfruit does an uncanny impression of johnny cash. who knew? i am a little more nervous about singing on my own and just did some back up vocals to blueduvet covering "these boots are made for walking" and whole bunch of dancing. <br /><br />oh and blueduvet, on the train on the way home kim and i saw ariel shrag and she smiled at me! since ladyfest i've seen her on the train a few times. maybe she thinks i'm stalking her. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:57655 2004-12-04T19:36:55Z 2004-12-04T19:36:55Z <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tr><td><img src="http://images.quizfarm.com/1101687736alternate.JPG"></td><td> You scored as <b>alternative</b>. 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it sounds like a toy i must have but is it worth it? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:55848 2004-11-21T17:57:22Z 2004-11-21T17:57:22Z so i was going to ask my dad for web hosting and a domain name registration for christmas this year and i was wondering which package i should go with. i don't know anything about web design and would probably have to find someone to do it for me for cheap or trade. <br />alineskirt, i imagine you know a bit about this... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:55682 2004-11-20T23:01:03Z 2004-11-20T23:01:03Z i have been supremely lazy lately, spending a lot of time on the couch or sleeping. it's around 6 pm and i haven't left the house yet. i am still wearing sweatpants.<br />i finished reading "without a net" and sent two really late thank you cards to my aunts but other than that, i have done absolutely nothing. <br />work has been sucking all the energy out of me and adam and i are having far too many discussions about our future. i just son't know what it it that i would like to do. i would like to move but i have lots of really great friends in new york. adam is less enthusiastic about living here much longer. i am having a hrad timje weighing the pros and cons of moving to the west coast. i am afraid that i will be lonely and sad and those are two things i am not so good with.<br />adam and i were sitting at the kitchen table today dreaming of new tattoos and piercings we would like to get. i told him that i want to get my septum pierced when i quit my job. then i decided that i would do it before i quit, just to really annoy them. that made me happy. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:waxfruit:55349 2004-11-16T02:46:01Z 2004-11-16T02:46:01Z ooh i am so excited that i actually remembered to sign up for this. thanks pot-t-mouth!<br /><br />so my likes (much longer than my dislikes):<br />-appliqued or embroidered table linens<br />-sequin appliques<br />-old paper stuff, like bills, prescriptions, travel journals, letters, etc.<br />-books on ettiquette<br />-felt accessories, unless they are flowers cos i have too many of those.<br />-weird and funny stuffed animals or creatures<br />-japanese or korean stationary<br />-zines<br />-small art or handmade cards<br />-mix cds<br />-paint by numbers<br />-old grade school related things, like flashcards, times tables, text books, pencils, etc. <br /><br />dislikes/don't want:<br />-meat<br />-traditional or "tasteful" jewelry-i tend to wear one really big crazy thing at a time<br />-scents that are really flowery<br />-frames-they make no sense to me<br />-xmas ornaments-i love them but have no place to put them. <br />-ugg boots-don't even think about sending me ugg boots or anything that one would wear with ugg boots<br />-candles-i have lots already<br />-yarn-i don't knit or crochet<br /><br />ok, so i mostly will like things you send me. i am easy to please.