MERMAID PARADE Coney Island 2014

Everything about Coney Island appeals to me. Beaches, babes, fast rides and freaks. It's  a kind of perfect place and I get so fucking pumped every time I go there. One of the best times of my summer is the Mermaid Parade.  The creativity that goes into the costume and float making is mind blowing and inspiring.  I am passing on the tradition of yearly attendance and dress up to my offspring. My daughter, Lulu is 4 and loves dressing up. She is the perfect canvas. My son, Rocky is less pumped so I keep his costume simple. Here they are in the final product and then finally at the Parade.

before the parade photo shoot

My husband

marching in the parade

Vacation

Anomaly just had our summer vacation for the past week. Here's some highlights.

This is a gorgeous ring I found at an antique shop in Brunswick, Maine.  I am dying to do a series of modern remakes of this ring and will probably make a point to do so in the near future.  I wish now that I am home that I had bought it. At the time I made the sensible decision that I had so much jewelry already blah blah blah. Here's a few more shots of some awesome antiques I admired and unwisely did not buy during our week stay in Maine.

To wrap up our vacation I took my daughter Lulu to the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island. I just recently posted about the awesomeness of Coney Island in general. Once a year there is a parade full of hand made creatures of the sea called the Mermaid Parade and it is by far one of my favorite days of the year.  What makes it so spectacular to me is that I get to be in awe of everyday people's creativity and imagination.  The costumes are INCREDIBLE and hand made by those who wear them and gorgeous. I have made some of my best friends over the years at this parade and I'm so grateful the magic of the day continues on. 

Here's me and my kid. I thought of and made my costume the morning of the parade.  Lulu's costume  was a store bought base with Mom embellished finishings.

Anomaly Loves

    CONEY ISLAND! I was really worried when there was the beginnings of talk to revamp Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.  The decay was part of what was so enchanting about it to me.  Many years have passed and lots of the changes have occurred.  And, I am pleasantly surprised by the outcome.  It is not a gaudy kind of new but a new that fits Coney's old image.  Very true to its era and also modern in a really Instagram photo kind of way.  If you are a resident or visitor to N.Y.C. it is one of the few places I would recommend to go. I am way more of a visual kind of gal so here are some photos to do the talking for me.  I went there this past weekend with my best friend forever, my kid, my husband, and her main man.