Happy New Year…Happy New Escort!
Well, I threw out a chair, a vase, some pot pourri, and 4 cushions. I moved a sideboard 8 inches and tidied the shoe cupboard.
Why Miss Mopp, it’s..it’s so.. wonderfully spacious in here! Haha.
As you’ll know, if you have ever been here, it’s not spacious at all. But I can’t help myself, being a terminal hoarder.
I was a major recycler before it was ever fashionable and ethical, you know. Oh Yes.
Because years ago, it was known more often, by the shameful name of ‘bin raking’. Haha.
My mother is still mortified, because since my teens, I have been a complete and utter ’bin-raker’.
‘Look what I’ve found! I’m going to make something out of this..’
That was, and still is a sentence often exclaimed by me. Accompanied by the waving of arms and lots of smiling and looking into the distance…they do happen, these ‘projects’, they do, you know. Might take 1 week-25 years though.
‘Don’t you dare walk beside me, I don’t want to be seen with you and that ‘thing’! I don’t know where you get this embarrassing obsession from, it’s not from my side!’ That would be my mum’s horror filled shreik, with me dragging some lump of mud encrusted tat behind me, and shouting ‘MUUUM, WAAAIT ON MEEEE’ , to embarrass her on purpose.
Fabulous stuff of note, though - a 70′s tiled coffee table, so super retro cool now, they go for £600-£800 these days.
Mines was in a skip about 15 yrs ago. Yes, they’re all jealous now! *Sweeps hair back with gay abandon*
I will sell this when I’m really old, it will be like selling real Roman artifacts. I bet the British Museum will be begging for my antique…
What.Are.You.Laughing. At? You”ll eat your words! Mark my words. (not eaten, not even licked, right?)
Last year, I found a rancid and wet Edwardian period chair in a bin. It needed sanding and new upholstery. But now, it’s been sprayed gold and has been lovingly re-upholstered with a plush emerald green velvet bouncy seat. Mmm… courtesy of my love and patience for tat and rubbish! That won’t be worth much, I’ve fangled with it.
Did you notice that I said ‘threw out a chair’. This means I can use my arm! (scroll back a few posts for explanation)
I had to attack the chair with a hammer for an hour, as I had formerly encrusted it with diamante stones, and I wasn’t leaving them behind. NO. They cost me a pretty packet!
They will reappear and be recycled on the toilet seat or somewhere…perhaps on the bit you sit on? Ooh.. bum massage, anyone? Ok… maybe not.
That seat would take some scrubbing with the toothbrush and bleach, I suppose. ( I do have a special toothbrush for scrubbing nooks and crannies, everyone should have one? Not my personal nooks and crannies, I might add..no, I have a wire brush and Dettol for that, haha.)
Kim and Aggie would love me! I love the prog where they make dirty houses look great. Such job satisfaction. I FEEL their plight and then their JOY.
It’s all part of the plan..
The Plan you ask? What Plan is this, pray tell?
Well, I have been out of sorts and unavailable a lot, what with the dental stuff, the shoulder stuff, blurry face stuff-sites need lots of techy refurb stuff, member passwords for another site-full pic view stuff, blah blah etc. And it will all take a good bit of faffing behind the scenes to sort it out…these things are not rectified in a day.
I really need to have some free time, but not to get away from you dear boys! Oh noo…to add more talents!
I really want to become an semi good photographer this year, to have my incredible sewing apparatus make me money, and to be a gym going regular. These things have fallen by the wayside, and it’s stuff I really want to do.
It’s all part of Dollymopp’s future…connected loves all in one package. To be finnanced for 2 is already wonderful, but I have more to add yet.
I will NEVER give up Dollymopping, the other stuff is not to replace, but additions.
I know I won’t be paid for photography for a while, I wouldn’t even ask, but future plans and client interest are in the pipeline already. I’m just dying to have free time to take pics of sexy hot ladies!
The gym is for you boys! Well, that’s part of Dollymopp maintenance. Very important when you’re my age! Mature independent escort and all that.
Sewing…sounds twee and homespun eh? I have made incredible outfits in the past, and some of my work was bought by celebs and worn on TV. I only did it by commission then (early 90′s Scotland) and I really let it slip when I moved to London.
I did eventually go to St Martins, that famous fash college though. I have an amazing machine now, and I want to trip the light fantastic with it, for myself too. Ladies? See a frock you want but it costs ££££s? …I can help. I was replicating stuff in my bedroom as a teen, with no fash design training at all, then. I bought second hand shop couture stuff and took it apart, to see how it was made. I was selling my work in shops at 14 yrs old. So believe me, I’m good! Occassional commissions say 3-4 a year, would be fun to do.
Another thing…ages ago, I thought of adding a new page of my artwork to buy. I suppose that I would just have to show you it first. I sold out my Grad Show, so maybe you would like my stuff too. Mixed media/found objects/collated objects/textiles - on canvas mostly, my main inspiration was/is…guess what? But it changes with mood and hormones, haha. It is stuff you can hang on a wall. I know I’m on more bedroom walls, than any other room though..haha. Fees…well that’s negotiable, but I haven’t sold any artwork for less than £200.
The reason that I say it here, is…how very apt would it be for people from ‘This World’ to have my personal stuff!? So right for posterity! Might be worth lots of money one day…
So! If I can get to do some of these things too, 2010 is going to be just great.
I think I’m just about good enough to call now…make plans for mid Jan and thereafter!




January 3rd, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I still have my great-grandfather’s receipts from the 1880′s. Hey, they may have an audit, and I want to be ready!
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Wow! What an amazing blog, and such a talented lady … do you do shoulder pads, not any old shoulder pads but big, yellow, one eagle shaped, oh and attachable/detachable? We must discuss
and very glad to hear your shoulder is starting to get back to normal. Happy new year!!!
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:43 pm
You say “I think I’m just about good enough to call now…make plans for mid Jan and thereafter!”
that is just brilliant! Well done, I’ll call soon.
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Good god, got exhausted just reading all your ambitions.
Clone yourself. It’s the only solution.