You'll even find the crib set sporting little black dresses in their baby strollers. What's good for Mommy is certainly good for Mommy's little fashion plate.
(Little Audrey Dress )
These days, our little divas are grabbing their Mommies by the hand... bypassing the pink and lilac and stopping in front of a black empire or knit baby doll dress. And mommy likes the endless accessorizing possibilities. She can add a pink belt or lilac scarf or Tiffany blue shrug and get another look or two.
(Below - Llum Toddler & Little Girls Bertoia Dresses - Llbd Shop)
You won't have to look far for a little black dress version of a colorful pink, red or purple dress. Yes, better days have arrived!
Can you say reversible? Now you see it in a pattern and now you see it in black... inside out. Voila!
(Llum Toddler & Girls Reversible Pinafore Dress - Llbd Shop)
(That's right pose for the cameras, little diva.)
"Teach a child to choose the right path and when he is older he will remain upon it." Proverbs 22:6
Miracles and Blessings! Kiki, here... I know it's been a minute since our last text-webisode. Fortunately, our iCafe Woman Moderne and iCafe Girl Moderne regulars only missed a few visits during the summer months.
They're still coming up with great ideas that'll keep our iCafe Woman and Girl Moderne patrons informed, entertained, amused, as well as spiritually and physically fed in the months to come.
New exciting clubs have formed already topping the list with the Lil Divas Perfect Little Black Dress Club, the brainchild of a feisty six-year-old.
Feisty Six-Year-Old
I'm seven, Miss Kiki.
Kiki
Oh, I beg your pardon. The Founder and co-President of our new Lil Divas Perfect Little Black Dress Club is seven-year-old Desiree Lake. We're also expecting some very talented people to drop by iCafe Woman Moderne for a Latte. Okay, we'll whet your appetite... a fine artist who paints in mix media, a television producer, a wedding planner, an interactive game designer, a pasty chef, an animation scriptwriter and a female auto mechanic and motorcyclist who educates women on caring for their cars in her classes, "Ladies, Start Your Engines." And these are just for starters. Our first guest is an innovative painter--
Desiree
(interrupting)
Miss Kiki, I thought I was gonna talk about the artist lady.
Kiki
You are, but I wanted to give our audience... (smiles) never-mind... you're absolutely right. This text webisode is all about our little divas. So without further delay, I'd like to welcome you all to our iCafe Girl Moderne text-webisode where girls, tweens and teens hang out and be their best. Your host for today's text-webisode is....
Desiree
(grinning)
Me... Desiree Lake... I'm seven and I love little black dresses. My momny's a fashion designer for a lady who loves wearing little black dresses like me. So I started this club with my friends who like wearing them too... and we wear them every time we meet at iCafe Girl Moderne. There's ten of us, but only eight came today... Maya is 16, Naandi... 10, Brielle is 15, Sasha.... 12, Chyanne just turned 8, Marisol is 1l and Folu's from Nigeria... she's 9. And we're all gonna model our little black dresses too.
Kiki
But before you give us our little black dress fashion show, don't you have a guest you'd like us to meet?
Desiree
I almost forgot... she's the art lady.
Kiki
She's an artist. What kind of artist?
Desiree
She's an absack artist... whatever that is. I just know she's a really good painter cause she don't just paint pictures of cats, houses and flowers... BORING. (She pretend yawns.) Her pictures make you stare really hard and try to figure out what it is. I like that a whole lot. It's not boring at all.
She draws some trees too, but mostly stuff that makes you keep staring at it like you do when you're looking in that funny tube you gave me for my birthday, Miss Kiki.
Kiki
You mean a kaleidoscope?
Desiree
Yeah... yeah... like that. I don't know what I'm looking at, but it's really cool. I can't stop looking. She's right here, she'll tell you.
Kiki
Is there something you have to do first?
Desiree
Sorry, I've got to introduce her. Oh, I remember. (clears her throat) I'd like to welcome to the first taping of our Lil Divas Perfect Little black Dress Club... art lady Judi Lynn. I like your art... my favorite ones are these. That second one looks like somebody's sleeping on the floor.
(She Sleeps - The Art of Judi Lynn)
Judi Lynn
Thank you for inviting me, Desiree. I'm an abstract painter who works in acrylic and mix media. You have a great eye. The first painting is called "Fruits of Our Labor," and the second one I titled, "She Sleeps." It's an abstract of a sleeping woman. You were right.
Desiree
It's really cool!
Judi Lynn
Fruits of Our Labor is an acrylic and digital painting that shows the abstraction of an apple, which is the source of nutrition and the symbol of health, not only in our bodies but in our lives. The apple represents knowledge.
Desiree
Wait a minute, this is my favorite one too.
Judi Lynn
That one is "Some Kind of Wonderful."
Desiree
I know. I like it too.
Judi Lynn
(laughing)
It's called "Some Kind of Wonderful." This piece started off as an acrylic painting on canvas, then... to make things interesting... I used digital tools that take the image beyond what the physical hand can do. The final result is amazing for both the painter and the viewer.
Desiree
Why do you call your art ab-stract?
Judi Lynn
You look at a painting of a landscape and know what you're looking at. But I could take that same landscape and change the shape of the trees, the color of the grass and use colors that are not common in landscapes and it becomes a different version of a landscape. I'll do it this way to express a deeper meaning. It's a landscape but painted in a different way.
You said that some of my paintings remind you of a kaleidoscope. Well, that's a great example because a kaleidoscope changes the way you see an image. I hope my paintings stir different emotions in each person who sees it.
Desiree
Makes sense to me. Why did you become a painter?
Judi Lynn
I've been making marks on blank surfaces since I could hold a pencil in my hot little hands. While the little girls in Kindergarten class played house, I grabbed brush and paint and entered my own world. My education has always centered around art from elementary to my college days at Temple University's Tyler School of Art. I've been painting professionally since 2006.
I enjoy exploring techniques in acrylic textured painting. I'm also a bit of a computer nerd... playing with light and color also excites me.
Desiree
I like computers too, but how do you paint on a computer?
Judi Lynn
I use a digital tool called a stylus. The stylus is my computer paint brush and I use an electronic tablet as my canvas.
Desiree
Your art feels really good too. I touched it when nobody was looking.
Judi Lynn
(laughing)
I'm glad. I like my artwork touched. I want it to feel good inside and out. My life's purpose is to touch lives and use my art to help make them better. My paintings tend to appeal to your sense of touch and are often spiritually inspired. I'm moved by rich color and earthy tones.
Kiki
Where can we purchase your art?
Judi Lynn
I'm glad you asked. You can purchase my art as a canvas print, framed print, art print and greeting card at affordable prices at an online art gallery: The Art of Judi Lynn
http://theartofjudilynn.artistwebsites.com/
Desiree
What's earthy toes?
Judi Lynn
(smiling) Earthy tones are colors that come from nature such as, leaves, tree barks, the ground, rocks, a sunset, clouds... you get the idea.
Desiree
Creepy crawlers and flowers too?
Judi Lynn
Well, yes... colors can come from them too... the brown from a grasshopper, the black from a spider or the red from a rose.
Desiree
Yuck! I hate spiders. Can you put your art on a tee-shirt or a little black dress?
Judi Lynn
Sure you can... and I don't like spiders either. You can have one of my prints silk-screened on your tee or lbd.
Desiree
Thanks for wearing your perfect little black dress today.
Judi Lynn
A perfect little black dress is like a blank canvas, you add paint and create one look and add a little more paint, and create another look a moment later. I also love yours and your Barbie's.
Desiree
Thanks.
Judi Lynn
I can't wait to see your fashion show.
Desiree
Naandi and Maya... come on out! Ten-year-old Naandi is wearing the fancy lbd you can wear to a wedding or church... and Maya's wearing one in a junior size that you can wear to school if you don't have to wear a school uniform. The rest of the girls will be wearing a fancy one and one for every day too.
(Ses Petites Mains Girls Greta Dress - Llbd Shop)
Find the perfect little black dress for the little girl in your life at:
Little-Little Black Dress Shop.
Do You Have a Daughter Who's Crazy About Wearing Little Black Dresses? We'd like to hear from you or her? Drop us a comment.
