Sironia Movie: Waco, Texas

The end of April to the end of May I was working as Assistant Wardrobe to Costume Designer Corban Poorboy on the feature film "Sironia" which was shot in Waco, Texas and Los Angeles, California. "Sironia" stars musician/actor Wes Cunningham and is set to hit the festival circuit in August.

Team Sironia is as follows:

Corban Poorboy: Costume Desinger/ Wardrobe Wizardress

Lori Fox: Wardrobe Assistant/ Wonder Wardrober

Kristin Hardin: Wardrobe PA/ Wardrobe Wand Waver

Happy Valentine's Day

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Tee Shirt:

I have a tee shirt like this. One day my mom was standing close to me and said, "Lori, your shirt is so cute with those little girls and their dog." I said, "You like it?" I asked her multiple times to get an emphatic YES! out of her. I then went across the room, turned around and said "How do you like it now?" Giving an evil laugh as she shrieked in horror. Heh heh heh. I love this shirt. 

House:

I love going to Billy and Sarah's house. There is always good food, conversation, and a spontaneous song or dance waiting to erupt. 

Dinner Time:

My most favorite dinner I ever ate. Banana's, Choco Ice Cream, and Rainbow Sprinkles in a 1964 Mikasa yellow flower bowl. What could be better?

Farewell Conan.

Spoon got to play on Conan during the last week of the show. Eric got us in so Ariel and I lived the high life in the green room for a few hours. They had a pop-corn machine, buckets of candy, "Sprinkles" cupcakes, coffee, tea, soda, EVERYTHING!! AND MASSAGE CHAIRS! I never wanted to leave that place. 

Conan was awesome to see live. He's my favorite late night show guy. Spoon played a flawless show. My only complaint was our guest Tom Hanks got switched out for Quentin Tarantino. L.A.M.E. But an extra cup-cake made up for that. Ha!

Afterwards we got to talk to most of the crew (they were all so friendly like a big family!) and hear what a great guy Conan really is. They all couldn't say enough good things about him and his character. What a rare breed. He will be missed. 

Birthday 2: Echo Park

I had a video scavenger hunt birthday party that made me feel like I was 13 again. We broke up into three teams and scoured the city for victims to join with us in hugs, human pyramids, and songs. One of our team members had to jump in a motel pool. Everyone did it. The videos afterwards were hilarious. I have the most awesome friends. I feel very blessed. 

Art and War

24 year old Ukrainian Kseniya Simonova says:

"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."

Food Inc

I watched this movie three times over the holidays. Most people, when I ask if they have seen it, say "I don't want to watch that because I'll have to stop eating meat." NOT TRUE. This movie was really powerful in the way that it shows what is currently going on with our food industry and why there is so much sickness involved. It didn't feel like one of those one sided Michael Moore films that leave you feeling depressed and hopeless. Food Inc ends on a hopeful

note that we as consumers can make a difference and a change in this broken system. After all, isn't that what America is about? I'm excited to start off my year with some perspective on what I am eating. The plans of action at the end included buying foods that are in season (I will post a chart for this), buying from local farmer markets, buy organic, buy grain fed, free range meat.

I could go on and on about this film but I won't. PLEASE GO SEE IT!

Birthday 1: Dallas

Dinner and the aftermath.

 32 never tasted so good. 

I'm glad I have friends to help taste moments like these. 

Raven + Lily Cards

I love volunteering with www.ravenandlily.com We get together and eat cookies and drink and make stuff. It's one of my favorite things. 

Tuesday

It's Tuesday, a pretty mundane day, other than the fact that I came across this butterfly on my lunch break. The spots in it's feathery brown wings were like drops of aluminum. So beautiful, that nature. Today has been redeemed. 

RIP Dusty

One of my dear friends passed away on Saturday after battling cancer for the past 5 years. We were friends since I was in high school, lost touch for about 10 years then reconnected a little over a year ago.  It was like no time had passed. During that time I had the chance to visit him in NYC where he was living.  (Who in their right mind moves to NYC when they are sick?!) That just shows what a fighter he was. I spent a week with him at NIH in DC for his chemo treatments, and to celebrate his one year immune system transplant. We met up a few times in L.A. and Dallas too. We always texted and emailed, and I kept up our old tradition of letter writing; Something I have recently gotten out of the habit of doing, but was glad to pick it up again. I let him know early on I was thankful for his presence in my life again. The past five years had brought me a different kind of hardship in the form of depression and burn out. Seeing him was like seeing the opposite of myself; He was dying on the outside but alive on the inside while I felt I was alive on the outside but dying on the inside. I needed this so desperately, this terrible, beautiful visual to remind me that life is worth living. Till the end he fought hard. The last time I heard from him was two weeks ago. I knew from update emails he wasn't doing well, so his text shocked me. I was at work and instantly burst into tears. He just said, "Are you still in Cali? I miss you." I honestly never thought I would hear from him again, but even so I had been texting and calling him every few days just to let him know I was thinking and praying for him. I rushed outside to call him. I left him a message saying, "I am so proud of you Justin. What I love about you is that you are such a strong, fighting spirit, and the beautiful thing is that that is what will live forever. You are such an inspiration to me and a dear friend. I am so thankful for you in my life. I love and miss you. Good-bye." And now bravely yet reluctantly he has moved on before us. We will all be with him before we know it, time goes so fast. But in the mean time I will take the time I have left to live on the inside too. Thank you Justin Sullivan, for who you were here on this earth; for driving me crazy, for making me laugh, for being creative, for singing me rap songs, and for always being you. You will be greatly missed.

Twilight

It's the truth. But I still love it. 

Sharing:

I walked by the most beautiful flowering tree today. As if it was spring it was all decked out in pink and frills. I cut a piece off to add to my wardrobe. Such a fancy tree with bountiful flowers should share. Wouldn't you agree? 

Sat. 21 Nov.

Beauty

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Raven + Lily Online Store Launch TODAY!!

Our products from our trip from Africa plus our India and Africa Collection 

are now up on our new STORE site!!!

www.shop.ravenandlily.com

Happy Halloween!!!

This year was out of control.

When I was a child I used to go to this place called Crystal's Pizza. It was a magical place full of miscellaneous oddities such as a "study" room full of books with a fish tank coffee table you would eat on, a movie theatre room you could eat in, a live singer/piano player in the "dining" room, loads of video games... And, on the way out there was one machine that always caught my eye. It was a little frightening, a little terrifying, and I liked it. It was ZOLTAR! Most people know him from the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks. It's a fortune teller in a box. Completely mechanical, completely chance fortunes, but he was going to make you pay. A dollar to be exact. 

So, this year I decided I would become ZOLTAR. It's probably my most epic costume of my life. I will never top this one. I have reached the height of my Halloween years, and I will probably have to retire after this. But it was worth it. I hit up a party on Friday and Saturday night and won "Best Costume" at both.

How it worked was like this:

1. Put dollar in dollar slot (provided to the left)

2. Wait for Zoltar to respond

3. Zoltar will read your mind 

4. Zoltar will choose your favorite candy and then deposit it through the candy slot

5. Zoltar is never wrong. If you don't think Zoltar chose the right candy, it is because you have been repressing your true candy urges.

6. Have a Happy Halloween

Zoltar out of the box with Flapper Girl, and Gold-digger

Maria Shriver's "The Women's Conference"

Volunteers Lori Fox and Sarah Mark. 

Sarah designed our awesome bamboo canopy out of Raven + Lily remnant fabric scraps 

and pure imagination! The photos don't do it justice.

www.californiawomen.org Raven + Lily will have a booth this Monday and Tuesday at First Lady Maria Shriver's "The Women's Conference" in Long Beach, California. It is a conference that "empowers women to be architects of change." We are proud to represent our women's co-ops in India + East Africa + Los Angeles, sell their products, and sign up volunteers for our Los Angeles group! We are expecting 14,000 in foot traffic at the event. Just wanted to share what is going on and a photo of our booth!