How to survive winter '70s style with a kitty

"Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" (reference to '70s TV series The Brady Bunch). These pants could have walked right out of that show. Or The Partridge Family, another TV series from the same era in which "a widowed mother and her five children make a hit record." Sounds plausible to me. These baggies remind me of the Partridge's concert tour bus, painted patchwork-quilt style. No bus for me, but I have a lunchbag handbag with trailers on it. 

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The blue top with the thumb holes and the handbag are from eco thrift boutique My Sister's Closet (MSC), which raises money for Battered Women's Shelter Services in the Vancouver area. 

I surmise by the discreet highly-reflective Lululemon logo on the back that this top is designed for an athletic activity, perhaps football, a bar game where you have to grip a penny between opposing thumbs and lob it over goal posts made by the other player's hands. Thumbs must be agile but also warm to be a pro. I didn't know that Lululemon was focusing on this sport.

I could say I'm on my way to the "arena" for "training" in readiness for the induction of bar football into the Olympics, but that would be untrue - I was on my way to the cafe.

I altered those psychedelic vintage '70s baggies by de-cuffing them - they were too short. Cuffs are very Brady Bunch; high waters* are not. One of them had to go. You can see them with cuffs in the first post I did on them HERE. *Pants are called high waters when they are "too short" and won't get wet in a flood.

And I wore my ice-blue faux fur jacket, so deliciously blue and surprisingly warm.

And below, a sketch of Turnip Head and Kitty and Saint B. It snowed heavily in Vancouver this week.

Caption: "Rescue whiskey was bad enough - But rescue martinis with a hair dryer. Have I no dignity?"

Snow blankets, a hair dryer with a generator, robins making nests, martinis, rescue dogs, and windshield-wiper sunglasses make this scene complete. I did this journal sketch at the cafe, as usual, coloured it with pencil crayons, scanned it, and then made a few tiny edits digitally as the undo button for my analog life. A bigger scanner would definitely be needed for bigger undo-s.

In the sketch I'm wearing my red Onepiece onesie made in Norway, zipped up to my nose, leather teal gloves, and some mod-ish ankle boots that zip up the back, all from MSC. On top, I'm wearing my mustard-coloured shaggy coat, which you can't see under the snow.

There's still snow. It's pretty, but I'm hoping for some big-time sublimation (when a substance transforms directly from a solid to a gas, conveniently by-passing that annoying slushy middle stage).

I'll link up with Patti at Not Dead Yet Style for her Visible Monday, and Catherine at Not Dressed as Lamb for her #iwillwearwhatilike.

Big kitty hugs to all!