But that’s life. One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute some secretary’s running you over with a lawn mower.

 Guess who made it into the Top 10 female finalists in the AMC's Mad Men casting call contest? (Try saying that 5x fast, good lord!)

Me! Little old me. Thanks again to everyone that voted so faithfully. A lot of people have been asking me what happens now, so I will try to clarify how everything works from my understanding (via my interpretation of the contest rules)...



HI MOM!



Mad Men Math:

• Voters picked 10 men and 10 women = 20 finalists
• The shows Creator Matthew Wiener now picks ONE grand prize winner who gets the walk on role, and 2 second prize winners that win fairly substantial Banana Republic gift cards.
• So breaking that down a little further, I have a 5% chance of winning. It looks like a female was chosen for the winner last year so hopefully they don't pick a guy just because of that. I am just happy to have made it this far! My ultimate goal for entering this contest was to try and meet the award winning Costume Designer for the show (also designed the amazing costumes for HBO's Deadwood) Janie Bryant, and to maybe get a little advice about entering the world of costume design. Or even just meeting her and seeing the costume department would be lovely!

TOP ROW, SECOND FROM RIGHT

  

One last thanks to Bill Sitzmann of Minorwhite Studios in Omaha for taking this photo. 

Love you Bill & Minorwhite!

DRAPER V. JONES

She absolutely SLAUGHTERED this dress. The hair, dress and shoes are harmonious.  And as much as I adore her Mad Men looks, she's doing a great job here of separating herself from her character on Mad Men, Betty Draper. It's only been a few hours since the red carpet coverage but I'm pretty sure everyone else loathed this gown and is whining about her looking to thin, /shrug.

January Jones in Versace at the 2010 Emmy Awards

I don't have much else to say, I'm too exhausted from my two day photo shoot with Scott Drickey from Minorwhite Studios for Princess Lasertron's look book for her new dress line. 

Photos on that to come as soon as I get my hands on 'em! 

MY LOVE (almost) DON'T COST A THING

 

"God, Carol I know...she is just SO pushy!"

So I'm kind of a high maintenance friend right now. Or maybe always. I don't know.

I've been begging everyone to vote everyday to help me get on Mad Men.  Since a lot of people have asked, the contest doesn't end until September 17th, so you can vote everyday until then. I just need to get into the top 10 women, and then it's all up to the Man Men makers (say that 10 times fast). 

How wonderful are all my friends and family? No really! All the reposting and linking (and threatening...and husband's facebook account hacking...Kitty I'm looking at you) you've been doing, I think I just might be in lurrrrve with you. My friend Megan aka Princess Lasertron is even going to give out one of her TOTALLY gorg dresses if I get on the show!

Have you ever wanted something more than anything in your whole life and it turns you into a freak a little bit? Have you ever had a feeling that achieving one tiny thing could make all the difference in the world for you? Well this is almost like that. I'm close to desperate and at the same time I'm really close to saying eh, whatevs and letting it go.

"Geez Louise, that Sarah can only dream to 'hive like this."

But I won't. You guys know me. We've got a plaque that says, "PERSISTENCE" on the wall of our bedroom for Christ's sake.

You can click here to vote, and ya'll gotta promise to come back 'round here real soon, y'hear?

"Hey Mad Men, you've got my number, call me?"

Xo Rah

Mad Men Contest Entry

Today has been an exciting day, I finally had a photo accepted for AMC's Mad Men casting call contest!
Not only that, but since 8 am today I've received 580 votes with the help of all of my friends and family that have been so wonderful with pushing everyone they know to vote as well.
I appreciate you! You guys got me from page 135 this morning with no votes all the way to 580 votes and into the top 10 "most popular" pages of all the contestants.

Granted it will be A LOT harder from here on out to move up, since some of the very top people have close to 20,000 votes (and they're some of the weirdest photos!) but that's alright, I just want to try.

Above is the photo I cropped down to the permitted size and entered into the contest.

VOTE VOTE VOTE LIKE IT'S GOIN' OUT OF STYLE HERE

You can vote everyday, and as I learned this afternoon you can vote more than once if you have multiple browsers on your computer, and you can also vote on your phone. PHEW that's a lot of voting.

I love you guys and thanks again for all your (very fast) support.

Xo Rah

(Photo: Bill Sitzmann of Minorwhite Studios)

Miles Aldridge for the Win

Motivation, Vogue Italia-style. Enjoy!

Of course this is my favorite.

I'm just going to pretend that they were inspired by The Mynabirds' cake fight in "Let the Record Go". It's obvious, right? Miles Aldridge is totally channeling Laura Burhenn.

Xo Rah

(Photos: All photos by Miles Aldridge for Vogue Italia)