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REPOST FOR LAZY DAYS----Havisham

Miss Havisham's last performance dress. Look forward to more of this style on our new website. Just 2 more weeks.

BOUDOIR QUEEN TODAY

THE DARK GIFT

INQUIRE WITHIN or take a look at our website www.theboudoirqueen.com

DIVINE DECADENCE

MOST AMAZING THINGS

Fabulous 1920's Boudoir Circus panels metallic lace,beads and rosettes fabulous and UBER RARE! I also love the powder puff and boudoir mirror set. This set will be available on our BQ home decore' section. I'm finally getting excited about this part of my site --thanks to my friend in Astoria. I'm making a pair of fabulous candelabras for her. It was the kick in the butt I needed to get motivated.

RE-POST

My all time favorite Cover- We have decided to re-create this look for an upcoming foto shoot! The includes the song written by a friend "Mercedes Benz"

RECORD LOUCHE

I listened to a lot of crazy rock music at a very early age. I've mentioned in previous blogs that in the 2nd grade I listened to Janice Joplin's PEARL album over and over. Someday I will share the story of how I thru away a bunch of Rock Posters that actually belonged to her on accident. It's a sad tale for another day. These are two of my all time favorite records from my collection. "Buckingham Nicks" is by far my fav long before Fleetwood Mac. I can remember being at some friends house when I was 16 and hearing it for the first time. I love the song Long Distance Winner and Races are Run. I had 3 of these albums they go for big bucks on Ebay if you have one. I'm saving this one for myself. I also love Marianne Faithfuls Greatest Hits- I love the cover. I've always wanted a pair of pants like that. I call these "Keith Richard's Pants" Someday I'll make them.

So Pretty So Sold

Marie Antoinette Robe this sold the first day I put it on my blog- This is a favorite the color exquisite!

Filling orders-shipping Photo's Taken Today-Glimpses of Cool

Queen of the Cuffs- we will be celebrating 10 years of cuff making!!

BQ's Past Blog Re-posts for lazy days

I was going thru my French Magazine collection. My old website,logos and t-shirts came from many of these magazines. BTW these are rare. Most of the one you see up that are not being sold are from my personal collection. I'm really getting a little giddy over the launch of the new site. I can't wait!

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Marion Madness Re-Post

The gorgeous Marion Davies has always stuck out in my mind as one of the prettiest actresses of all time. I have a very rare large photo of her in my studio from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that is coveted by many. I don't think I will ever sell it. I'll post when I get a chance. I was reminded of her on my L.A. trip the Museum was featuring the Hearst Collection at LACMA. I've post a related article below. The museum is within walking distance from my son's home. It's great he gets the chance to go to the museum as much as he wants. I wish I could. The book "The Times We Had" I bought several years ago at Hearst Castle. If you have not had the chance to take the tour you should try and do it at some point. It's awe inspiring and a beautiful drive.

Snobbery and wealth, like love and marriage, don't always go together. The same holds for knowledge and money, as in "He's got more dollars than sense."

At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the complex relationships among taste, affluence and wisdom take fascinating shape in an exhibition of about 150 treasures that once belonged to William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) and are now scattered all over the U.S. and Europe. Beautifully installed in specially built galleries, and accompanied by a refreshingly readable catalog, "Hearst the Collector" upends all sorts of clichés.

It begins with a big one: Hearst's reputation as a power-mongering sensationalist who lacked the critical discernment of old-school collectors.

The myth, propagated by Orson Welles' unflattering depiction of Hearst in "Citizen Kane," is that the publishing magnate and movie producer, who was twice elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was a vulgar indulger with a voracious appetite for expensive things that he purchased to pack his extravagant mansions in San Simeon, Santa Monica, New York, Wales, Long Island and Northern California.

It is true that Hearst bought Greek vases, Roman silver, illuminated manuscripts, medieval armor, reliquary statues, glazed ceramics, Renaissance tapestries, marble statues, ornate furniture, Navajo blankets and oil paintings in such volume that the U.S. Customs Service often did not have the staff to open his crates and evaluate their contents. It simply taxed them by weight, which was measured by the ton.

But just because somebody has a lot of loot does not mean that it's second-rate or that the individual is inattentive to details, unappreciative of nuance, clueless about uniqueness and unaware of how the objects interact with one another. Quality and quantity come into conflict only on a budget.

And on a budget Hearst definitely wasn't.

Nearly everything in this manageably scaled exhibition is exquisite. And the way it has been laid out, in neat, nearly perfect symmetry by Mary L. Levkoff, LACMA's curator of European painting and sculpture, reveals Hearst's vision, intelligence and originality.

The centerpiece is a mother-of-pearl box made in India and fitted in Paris with emeralds, agates and garnets, all set in fantastically crafted silver gilt mounts. This luxe container once belonged to King Francis I of France and is now in the Louvre, having been sold by Hearst, along with about half his collection, when his businesses faced bankruptcy in the 1930s.

Four hall-like galleries radiate from the jeweled box, forming a cross. The long, vertical ones feature four gorgeous, mural-scale tapestries woven in the Netherlands in the first decades of the 16th century. The shorter, horizontal ones contain two marble sculptures, the stately "Hope Hygieia" from 2nd century Rome and the sensuous "Venus Italica," carved by Antonio Canova between 1804 and 1814, as well as four suits of armor: one Gothic and meant for business, two streamlined for tournaments and a magnificently etched Italian one, decorated with gold and worn ceremonially.

Four narrow galleries run off the horizontal axis. All contain impressive arrays of vessels: 25 2,000-year-old terra-cotta vases from Greece and southern Italy; dazzling examples of tin-glazed earthenware dishes from 15th century Spain; crystal-clear Bohemian glassware from the 16th century; and gilt silver bowls, chalices and steins from 17th century Germany, England and Switzerland.

A side door leads to three more galleries. The first, filled with natural light, includes three paintings of sumptuous nudes lolling in Edenic landscapes by François Boucher. All once adorned Hearst's Santa Monica mansion, where his paramour, actress Marion Davies, lived while Hearst produced 40 movies in which she starred.

The second gallery contains a placid tapestry and four dour portraits of stately, introspective ladies. The oils on canvas, by Jacques-Louis David, Joshua Reynolds and Anthony van Dyck, contrast dramatically with a single painting by Boucher, "Venus Disarming Cupid," that sticks out like a sore thumb. All hung in the Long Island home of Hearst's estranged wife, the estate that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

As a collector, Hearst played by his own rules. Buying in bulk, he sought out objects in which sturdy utilitarianism, exquisite craftsmanship and sensible beauty merged.

His collection conveys great enthusiasm for the ways people from different times and places lived. It also expresses an insatiable curiosity about the diverse ways they celebrated the high points of life.

In a sense, Hearst's collection is a one-man version of an encyclopedic museum such as LACMA. Over the last six years of his life, he donated about 900 objects to the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, helping form the foundation that eventually became today's museum.

At a time when overspecialization seems to be taking over every aspect of life, and the world seems to be increasingly made up of customized niches, it's heartening to encounter a generalist such as Hearst, whose appetite for the best and the most speaks of a deep love of human resourcefulness and individual inventiveness.

The rich may not be like us. But the super-rich are something else altogether.

On The Fringe

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WECOME TO THE WORLD OF BOUDOIR QUEEN

A Few B' Dolls

MY FAVORITE ROOM

*Note the Boudoir Doll Head Pillows

MY YUMMY NEW BED JACKET

Never The Bride

ESTATE FINDS

Leaving now to pick up fabu-louche estate goodness. Tah Tah

Take a Bite

I'm going thru my Italian Vogues so many fabulous editorials.

MY NEW ALL GIRL BAND

ZIEGFELD DOLLIES

PeachY KeeN at BouDoiR Queen

My summer day wear consists of all 20's and 30's lingerie,unsold BQ clothing,Victorian whites and beaded finery and feather necklaces.My dream is to own one of my own bustle dresses! The Marie Antoinette mirror was given to me as a gift on my bithday from Patty Griffin.

From the Web

MY OLD WEBSITE MATERIAL

I was going thru my French Magazine collection. My old website,logos and t-shirts came from many of these magazines. BTW these are rare. Most of the one you see up that are not being sold are from my personal collection. I'm really getting a little giddy over the launch of the new site. I can't wait!

Barbier

Spring Cleaning

As many of you know from previous blogs we are looking for a house in L.A. We are keeping the Austin house because Mark has a studio in it and we can go back and forth. That being said I have decided to spruce up the house a little. It needs a lot of work especially on the outside painting ect..... I have decided to paint and wallpaper the master bedroom. I always post photos of my little green closet room but my bedroom needs work. Owning a house is always a work in progress I'm sure you will all agree. Yesterday I went to my shop around 8:00 and cleaned out the whole front room. It took hours. I'm opening it to the public in the Fall. Thanks for the comments on the blog. Maybe I'll keep it along with the website who knows.

AT HOME WITH BOUDOIR QUEEN

So I basically live in a recording studio. Our house is fairly small. The green room is my closet. If you look closely you might see a few things that will be used in this weeks photo shoot. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm excited about my new website but it takes forever to get all the art together.

FIZZYLIKE

Fabulous Rosalinde' Boudoir Doll

Boudoir Dolly Decadence (Top Collectors)

GREAT BOUDOIR COLLECTIONS are few and far between. My friend Jenny AKA Fizzylike has what I consider to be a great boudoir collection. She has bought many dolls from me and her collection has grown over the years. Her collection is 2die4 and she has made my list of top B'doll collectors. I'll post more of her decadent dollies later. If you have a doll you would like me to post a picture of send it to me ; ) .

Me 2002

Here is a pic of me with a rare Large Face Boudoir Doll........I wish the person trying to be me would stop torturing Boudoir Doll Lovers with Butt-Ugly re-paint crochet headband wearing doll's. Here's some eye-candy for ya.

POIRET DOLL

DOLLY DRAMA

Boudoir Queen Collections past and present

THE QUEEN OF ALL BOUDOIR DOLL's

The best b'doll evah! If there is one thing I can't stand it's those tacky bed dolls that were made at the very end.Now this is a boudoir dream Doll!

ELECTRIC LADYLAND

inside Boudoirland

VISIONS OF OSSIE CLARK

I'm so into this Morocco style garb right know. I just bought tons of deco rugs and put them every which way in my house. Love it and you might see a little of this influence in our December line. I bought the sickest fabrics today from my friends Euro shipment.....god I'm in textile heaven right now! This picture is what I'm doing at the moment.....fun huh?

MUG SHOTS