An All-New and Improved Blog Update!

I'm so glad you came for a visit! Pour yourself something yummy and let's chat and dish and snark to our heart's content! I have so much to show you today!

You know, sometimes pants look like they’re too tight, occasionally to the point of discomfort. Really, don't these pants look like they have an active vendetta against their owners?

I'm not exactly sure what I was looking for on the Martha Stewart website. But, instead of finding the object of my search, I found this beautiful paper rose with tutorial. If you'd like to give them a try yourself, click here.
I would love to stay here during a holiday in Alsace. And I absolutely insist that my concierge wears that delightfully decorated wicker basket on her head!
Who knew the fight for gay marriage started so long ago?!

Um, okay. I know that my concern is supposed to be with Grandpa No-Shirt back there and whatever he’s got going on in his garbage bag of wonders. But I can’t help but be distracted by the fact that the woman in the pink bikini has breasts that are LITERALLY bigger than her head. It took me ten minutes to even notice that her friend is walking around in her underwear.

I loved my Spirograph when I was a kid! Did you have one? I remember needing many different colors of pens so I could be sure my designs were organized!

I have no clue whatsoever what this is...but I want it!

To sag one's pants is to remain vigilant to any disturbance in the force that keeps them precariously balanced around your person. I wouldn’t slip a Susan B. Anthony dollar into my pocket if I found it on the sidewalk, much less try to tote my Fiji Water around on my ass.
Elton's inspiration, perhaps?

These Art Nouveau brooches from the Paris Exposition of 1900 are collaborations between Art Nouveau designer Eugène Grasset and jeweller brothers Henri & Paul Vever. The butterfly woman is Henri Vever’s own creation.
Well-known jewellers since the 1870s, Henri and Paul Vever broke new ground at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 when they presented a new line of “artistic” jewellery alongside more traditional pieces. They asked the decorator Eugène Grasset to design the new pieces. Grasset, who was the author of the famous vignette on Larousse dictionaries: “Je sème à tous vents”, had trained as a sculptor, designed furniture, posters, stained-glass windows and ceramics and made a name as an illustrator.

My first thought was that Wolfman Jackass here gets his thrills strolling the beach and asking ladies to pose with him and his headdress from hell. But then I noticed that these women happen to be wearing fur bikinis, so they must be somehow involved in this tomfoolery. Fur. BIKINIS. Two words that do not belong together.

Perusing the multi-bazillion dollar mansion listings in Beverly Hills, I ran across this beauty. I love everything about these rooms. But, what took me by surprise was that this is owned by Nicholas Cage. Nicholas Cage of ConAir and Face Off?! Who would've thunk it?!


You knew that when your hipster friend Shireee (she insists on the third e) dragged you to some warehouse in a bad neighborhood for an “art opening slash spoken word performance slash flan tasting,” that it was going to be weird, but not THIS weird.

A magnificent peacock stringed instrument from 19th century India. Made of wood, parchement, metal and feathers. It resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Okay, Okay, I get the point, already. I'll reform!!! I SWEAR!!!

"When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way. From your first cigarette to your last dyin' day!"
A page from Une Semaine De Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage. An inexpensive copy of this work by the legendary collage master is available here.
I just love this modern interpretation of de Bonte's work by Colette Calascione (2003). Unlike the original collage, this piece is oil on wood.

Before leaving, be sure to click the image below and go to the post to enter the giveaway for custom greeting cards! So far, Anne of el Milagro Studio is way ahead with the number of chances she has gathered, because she has had so many people say they were referred by her. But you can still catch up!

Oh, great! Now you've got EVERYBODY doing it.



Now, go make something beautiful!

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Get Those Smiles Back! It's GIVEAWAY CONTEST time!

Seriously, have you ever seen a more depressed bunch of clowns? They look like an ad for Oxycodone. Well, I think they're just feeling down because they don't know about today's

Blog Giveaway Contest!

This contest is being sponsored by Uprinting.com.

The prize is 50 custom printed greeting cards with envelopes!
The greeting cards are 7" x 5" (folded to 3.5" x 5").
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Click on the image of the greeting cards below to see the marvelous design tools you will have available to create your custom greeting cards!

Greeting cards are an excellent way to say “Hi” and “Hello” to your friends. Not only that, you can also use these for businesses. You can also have your greeting cards customized. By customizing it, you can add some personal photos, graphics, logos, pictures and personal messages. The goal of customizing a greeting card is to create a uniquely personal greeting card that reflects the creativity of the sender.

If you have ever wondered whether the cost of quality printing cards with your artwork featured to sell in your etsy shop, this is a terrific way to test the waters!

There are two requirements: You must be 18 to enter. And the contest is only available to residents of the United States.

To enter, please leave a comment ON THIS POST ONLY.

If you are a follower, leave another comment ON THIS POST ONLY. (And if you're not, why not?!)

For every person who mentions that you referred them to the contest ON THIS POST ONLY, you will receive another entry! This gives you an unlimited number of chances to win!

I will announce the winner (via Random Number Generator) on Monday, April 26!

Good luck to everybody! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you all!

So, did I help put a smile back on your face?!

Now, go make something beautiful!

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For the Miniature Theatre Enthusiast ... and ...

From the famous British company Pollock's Toy Museum and Toy Shop

If you click on each image, you'll get a larger and more clear image.

The history begins in 1856 in Hoxton, an area of London bordered by the wealth of the City and the poverty of the East End. This is where Benjamin Pollock was born. At this time the toy theatre trade was flourishing in Covent Garden's Theatreland. By the time Benjamin Pollock had married Eliza Redington and inherited her father's Theatrical Print Warehouse, the toy theatre trade had been overshadowed by new fangled novelties such as magic lanterns, gramophones and the wireless.

However Mr Pollock, in his dark and dusty shop in Hoxton, carried on supplying theatrical sheets costing a penny plain and twopence coloured. His customers were local children aspiring to the stage or city gents nostalgic for their childhood as well as actors of the larger stage such as Charlie Chaplin. Pollock, although not the most innovative producer of Juvenile Drama, was the most amiable and diligent.
When Robert Louis Stevenson went to visit Webb, a rival of Pollock, he found him disagreeable and after an argument went down the road to Pollock's shop and was so delighted with him he immortalised him in an essay 'If you love art, folly or the bright eyes of children, speed to Pollock's'.
After his death in 1937 the business was kept going by various parties but was revitalised in the 1960s when Marguerite Fawdry tried to purchase some character slides for her son's toy theatre. She ended up buying the whole stock of slides and printing plates and subsequently opened her museum in London's Fitzrovia which still exists. It was to delight further generations of children as well as the actors, art students, collectors of toys and those who just like to be reminded of the inventive novelties of childhood.

Peter Baldwin was one of the many people who visited the museum and could not keep away. In 1980 Mrs Fawdry opened a second small shop on the first floor of the newly renovated Covent Garden market. Peter Baldwin became manager and took over the business in 1988 with his brother Christopher. And so the Baldwin brothers continued the tradition in its native home. Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop continues to appeal to the wide range of young and old that it has always done. So please do come and visit our shop if you are ever in London, where we have as well as our theatres, lots more traditional toys for pocket money spenders to those wishing to spend their money on more expensive frivolities which will bring much happiness!

This history was taken from the "about us" link on the Pollack Toy Theatre Shop website.

I have only been fortunate enough to visit the museum and shop once - about twelve years ago. But, I do hope to return someday. I have such fond memories of enchanted hours looking - and touching! - these marvelous enchantments!

I hope you'll make a point of visiting Pollock's if you are in London!

Sometimes, the clothes say it all...

Hmmm. Think this was the first "Make Love Not War" poster? ...

Enchanted Revelries has a new blog sponsor! A hearty welcome to We will be having a special giveaway contest next week for some fabulous custom printing through U Printing!

I've been so busy this week, I've started talking to myself. I know that I've been a bad blogger ... only one post all week! Sorry. I simply MUST get all the final details done for my little exhibit next Sunday. It's absurd. It's a one day only exhibit for our Cherry Blossom Festival here - but I am spending as much time getting the work and the displays ready as if it were a two month exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum. Argh! If they were showing better movies on Turner this week, I wouldn't be resorting to talking to myself! At least I occasionally make a clever remark back to myself.
Now, go make something beautiful!

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Wordless Wednesday

Now, go make something beautiful.

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We had a lovely Easter and hope you did, too. Don't I look pleased and sly for finding the best Easter basket at the hunt?

I thought these paper dogwoods were just lovely! I don't really know what I'd do with them...but perhaps I could make miniature versions and use them in mini-theatres. If you'd like to have Martha (yes-that's-Martha-as-in-Stewart) show you how to make them, click on the image and the tutorial will show you the way!

Which was the most widely held mistaken idea? That midi-skirts were stylish and attractive or that Rock Hudson was straight?

Okay, I know this is mean - but I have this overwhelming urge to throw a dart at her and win a stuffed puppy dog like at one of those state fair booths. I can't help it.

I am so glad I found this album. I had no idea where to find the best waltzes to accompany my ice skating routines ... or just to sit around and listen to on a chilly Spring evening.

If those horrid gift packs of bad toiletries at Walmart were as lovely as this Melba Weekend Package, I would have all my gift dilemmas solved for an entire year. I would give this to everybody! I bet not one would re-gift it!

To be fair, they were labeled panties and not underwear, so I can see how somebody might not be able to figure out the step by step process.

... I knew I should learn how to knit ...

Is this photograph awesome and astounding or what?! I have never seen such clarity - and magic! - in a nature photo. It is titled "Drops of Spring" and is from Stevetookit's Photostream. I found it at In the Light of the Moon.

Let's face it - unless you have 100 people following you while trying to escape from Cruella de Ville, this is better left in the closet.

I have always loved award-winning chickens - they're always so exotic and magical looking. But I've never seen them actually crowned before! I think it's a grand idea!

photos via Peter Lippman

Isn't this the most gorgeous staircase - and photo?! Titled House of Curves, photographed by Michael Garbutt. You can see more of his work by clicking here.

You have angered the queen of the small island nation of Clashistan. Any fool knows better than to park his motorcycle alongside her throne. Really.

"Not only is my monkey fur fantabulous, I will bet you ten dollars and a champagne cocktail that I can walk down an entire flight of stairs while balancing an encyclopedia on my head."

And one final Easter treat until next year ...

Well, I was certainly in a less-than-serious mood today. I promise my next post will have more beautiful things to look at ... might even be (for a limited time only) a judgment-free zone. Naaaaah. Who am I kidding? Gotta get my snark on! Thanks for spending some time with me - I hope you found something to amuse and entertain!

Now go make something beautiful!

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