Ruby?

The first picture is my mother. She was about twelve.
The second one is me, taken on my first day of high school. I was nearly twelve.

Best and Worst

Ruby:
Best part of the week: Sneaking into Tara's house at 11pm [and being found by Fereshteh at 1am]. And watching Annie.
Worst part of the week: Maths class. My teacher is a banshee. Having to perform a hybrid of Star Wars and Romeo and Juliet for English.

Going to the Italian consulate with both of my parents [who have been seperated since 2002] wasn't bad, but it was pretty weird.

.Xx

Best and worst day of the week?

Tara:
My week has been not too bad. It's Saturday today, and I am just lounging around, thinking what would be interesting to write next...ooh but before I go on I wanted to show you something. I came across these pictures that I thought was so strange. These two photos nearly look exactly the same. You have probably realised the one on the top is Talyor Momsen, but the bottom is Ashley Benson, from bring it on: in it to win it. I needed an 'OMG' experience this morning.

Any way while where on the look-A-Like topic, I should show you this: Wasn't my mum such a happy child, yep thats right this girl is not myself, but my mum!

MUM

ME

Back to what the titel refurs to, best and worst day this week... well:

1.Being invited to a party, then finding out it's on the same day as a picnic. GAAAHH
2.Finding a earing stud, but then later it infected my ear.

3. Findig my old wallet with my picturs sill inside, no bad came after that...

Nuts for Fashion?

I don't remember if I have always been into fashion, I don't know if I am even now. I think it's a waste of money buying 12-dollar fashion magazine when you are probably going to cut up throw away in the next 2 weeks, but I still want to buy them. I think watching average people walking down a run ways wearing either ridiculous or everyday clothing is pointless, but when a Commercial Announces at 9 O-clock on a Saturday Hubert de Givenchy is showing off his Unique fashion line, how can I not switch on the TV and watch hours of this addictive programme?

My Grandma owned her shop and one of her designs made it in TV week to show off her couture. She would make reasonable nice clothes for those days for me and made clothes for when I grow, which are hideous by the way, no offence grandma, well I adored them back then anyway.

My mother spent 2 years at uni developing 2 degrees in textiles and spent her earlier days, either teaching this subject, creating wedding dresses for bride bitch and costumes for theatre plus dance.

I never really tried or conceded creating garments, until my first class in the big year "KEVIN '07" I didn't know what the fuck I was doing, like what was a bobbin? and how to thread up a sewing machine?, which is in my defense is normal for a first timer. The teacher said to me when I sewed my first bag "you have potential " which made me angry, what are you saying when you say I have "potential" You are crap now but soon will be great? You have 50% of succeeding in this industry? Soon enough my passion was to make my way in this career and start a business with a close friend. But like any other dream profession of mine, soon fade away and to the next. I still enjoy sewing, recently I have made two dresses, this one >>

and another what I call my "Tutu gown". Right now I am up to the third, a dark blue lacy outfit.

Tara.Xx

We rule the play ground

Double Dutch- CC Martini

Did you know that there is something very special about this video clip? If you look very closely, you can see a face in the background which looks a lot like Tara. Ruby also appears in this briefly.

The most common question that follows after we tell this story is

"How did you get in the video clip?"

The answer is: Ruby was told at school that if you wished to be an extra in a movie to show up at a primary school at 7:30am. Always up for a new experience but not wanting to go alone, Ruby called Tara. Ruby told Tara that it was a great opportunity and a good story to be able to tell. Tara's first response was "How much money do we get?".
The girls got up at 6am to go to the set. Fereshteh told us we should get money and lunch at this place, because Tara's father had been an extra in some films and programmes before, he was paid quite well. Upon arrival, Ruby and Tara were told that they weren't going to be extras in a movie, they were going to be extras in a music video for some unknown Aussie pop star. And that the 7:30am start was not mandatory. At this point Tara was really angry;

1. It was too cold

2. She had to wear a uniform which she had to provide.

3. The Pop Diva was a cheap skate, so for her child labour there was no reward.

But besides all the anger there was a spring of happiness when Tara went into a room where a feast of lunch and snack were provided.

"What did you have to do?"

Ruby was told to skip, but was not provided with a skipping rope. Tara was given a rope and had to do jumps non stop for 15 takes each lasting a few minutes, which was two seconds of footage in the finished product.

When it was break time, Ruby and Tara decided to go exploring. They went upstairs, where they Accidentally broke a drum, snooping +messing up a 3/4 classroom and found a quite interesting device called a appel peeler where Ruby threw an appel core on Tara . They also attempted to steal an old metal school bell which weighed about twice as much as they did. They then read a book about a deceased child who used to attend the school. The half an hour break quickly turned into two hours of mayhem.

"What were the crew like?"

The director was a tool. He was probably over worked, but that isn't an excuse to treat your extras like crap. CC Martini and her friends from the video were very nice and chatted with the 'little people'. She came to Tara's house in person and gave her two singles, her album, two music DVDs, an autograph and a sticker for free. They give her as much good luck and respect as they can.

"Was it a success?"

The most we gained from this experience was some laughs and a new appreciation for extras in films.The most we gained from this experience was some laughs and a new appreciation for extras in films.

Bad hair day

Hairstyles have always been a great way to accentuate your best features, to stand out from the crowd or to simply finish off your look.

This is not the case when you give Ruby a pair of scissors, entrusting her to make your hair look good. After telling Tara that she liked her hair better short, Ruby asked if she could give it a trim to remove the split ends. Ruby sat Tara down in her back yard and started cutting. Tara said to Ruby that she was cutting the hair too short. Ruby told Tara that since she'd already started, there was no point cutting half of it short and leaving the rest long. she looked at ruby and back to the hair on the ground,

"Ruby" she started to say "don't fuck up my hair'

"I won't, I cut your fringe, I think I am a good hair cutter, I could be a hair dresser, trust me it looks good"

Tara gave her a trusted smile and just relaxed while ruby gave her the hair cut of her dreams.

"No stop" Tara said while running her fingers down her hair

"What's wrong now Tara?"

"I think you are done"

She ran to the mirror with her mouth open and her eyes in disbelief. " you fucking stupid girl, are you kidding me?"

Tara's long brown hair was turned into a short, uneven fuck.

"I changed my mind, it turns out I am not a good hair cutter"

HAIRSTYLES THROUGH THE AGES

In the time of the Ancient Egyptians, they shaved their hair and wore fancy wigs made with beads and gold.

Marie Antoinette also wore wigs. In her day the more elaborate your hair was, the higher status you had.

In the 1920's, the bob was the hair cut of choice for flappers.

In the 1930's Jean Harlow had a platinum blonde, wavy bob, decades before Marilyn Monroe.

Long, wavy hair was back in the 1940's thanks to the likes of Rita Hayworth.

The 1950's had no distinct cut, instead there were many hair cuts fashionable.

Mia Farrow made the pixie cut fashionable in the 1960's.

In the 1970's people loved Farrah Fawcett's feathered hair style.

In the 1980's, there was the mullet, the perm and the wacky colours.

The Rachel cut dominated the 1990's.

As for today? Anything goes. As long as your hair isn't cut by Ruby.

Mud baths

Have you ever taken a mud bath? They date back to the Roman period and are well known for their goodness toward your skin. You may find spring water and volcanic ash. There are natural mud baths in places such as Turkey and New Zealand. If you can't afford the air fare, you can always go to your back yard. The sound of Ninon's voice forced us to realise that sticking the hose in a pile of dirt which became a pool of disgusting mud that smelled like feet wasn't the do-it-yourself way to achieve the experience of a natural mud bath. For this action our punishment was to take a bath in a bucket of freezing water at 10:00pm, with the air temperature eleven degrees. Ninon would not open the door until we were clean.Oh no! This could not be! So, what did we do?

Like any good citizen we got the hose in our own hands and drenched Ninon as soon as she stepped out of the door.

Oh, fuck. This was not a good idea. Before our eyes Ninon went from a long-sufferng mother to an enraged super woman. Snatching the hose from our hands, she put it on full blast

and sprayed us with the icy water. Then she went inside.

Dripping and freezing, we pleaded to be let inside. Finally, Ninon let us in.

We took a warm bath and went to bed.

The next morning, we were informed by Ninon that not only had we left muddy foot prints all over her recently vacuumed carpet, her white towels were a distant memory.

.Xx

Introductions...

"On and on you will hike

and I know you'll hike far

and face up to your problems

whatever they are."

Tara by Ruby:

Tara gets cold too much and cannot talk properly. She loves Kinder Buenos and always asks me out for coffee when she knows I have no money, and don't like coffee. Tara is a very annoying person yet we often have good times. We love to swear in Greek and her mother's name is Fereshteh. We often criticise Fereshteh's food, but always demand more. She's always hungry. We're probably the biggest brats ever but Fereshteh puts up with us. We infuriate people on the tram. And she's a terrible speller.

Ruby by Tara:

Ruby is loud and screams, like all the fucking time. I often say "you are stupid" and she always bloody copies me. She always complain about people and she always says random words in other languages that gives me the urge to punch her in the face, but I love her. She tells me I eat too much and I should stop eating her food. When we go out I say it's her time to pay when really she has been paying for like 4 weeks. She pays me back with food instead of money. She makes us talk about SVU when I don't care. She's obsessed with doctors. And is more effective than spellcheck.

This blog is really just a method to combat boredom. Enjoy

Tara+Ruby.Xx