Sometimes one needs a raincoat...

but it doesn't have to be blue...

I love Dress A Day blog.....Erin is so darn smart and she sews...yes, she really really sews.
For decades I was the only young person who sewed. If I met someone my age who sewed,
she was um, in a cult of some type. Up until about a year or 2 ago NO ONE sewed ! except grannies.

Sew (ha ha) I see this Lettered Raincoat...and Erin loves letters...she has a real important job at The Dictionary Company.....and I emailed her about it...

I wrote her:
Hi Erin,
Yup....but I thought of you!
Tressie

And the attentive darling she is.....she mailed back:

I love it! Probably will have to buy it. So I should thank you, I think!
Off to watch the auction ...
Thanks!
Erin

so....I'm an enabler........My best friend Jen wants her hair bright green....
So I'm gonna bleach it and then dye it for her......
Please don't ask me for anything unless you really really want it...
you just might get it.....

Hey Kids....It's VBO...Vintage Blow OUT

For VBO...after your first VBO win....all auctions ship for two dollars more (in the US) for each item won !

Clicky here to go to my store to buy stuff....

Here's a few things on VBO...

One of my favorite things to say Is:

I have a lot of favorites....I have a "sayings fetish"
for a long time I liked: I only know 2 things.
And there is a cuuuuuute girl in Portland who calls her blog: Daddy Likey and she says she says that a lot.
mmm, I like that !
I like colons right now....not the elimination type, silly..these::::::::
But my favorite thing to say right now is: I'm old now....
nobody really understands that I mock myself..... a lot....which is different
from you laughing at me......
which probably happens.
time for a picture:


Who reads this blog? I don't know. I have friends but not a single one has ever...
oh, except Rhianna, has ever commented....Gordon, a lovely stranger left a comment.
But I know you are reading it.....because in 12 years I'll have enough ad $
to actually get a check from Google.

One Of The Oldest Hawaiian Shirts !

Now in my ebay store...clicky the piccie to go there ! SOLD !!
If you want to buy it, go to Retro City Vintage in San Francisco...
Aaahhh, SF, I wish I was there RIGHT now...I knew, SF, you wouldn't
let me down.......

Amy Winehouse

Just A Quickie With Bo Diddley

It's all about Duchess.....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0DeHnw60Y

Where The Wild Things Grow......

Wow, have I been busy or what?
Busy is the correct answer...
I had a run-in with Mr. Phil S. Stein.....
Oh Woe to those who do not believe
Woe to those who are artless.

I asked artist and pranksters and kind-hearts to come
and help paint my "sad and yukky" building...
It needs paint...I like to paint...
But I really don't know how to draw...much...
Which is why is always good to make new friends!

I got a huge happy response from lots of folks offering to come
on friday and paint....and doodle and make a beautiful thang
But Mr. Phil S. Stein assumed I was gonna make
my bldg. ugly and obscene.....and there were other issues..

I don't know if people realize that for Art to Grow, for gentrification, which is bad and good........
the gays, the immigrants and the weirdos, populate the fringes of the city centers
and they bring chartreuse, twinkly lights, loud music and buckets full of petunias... And it is Good !
All art originates from the outcasts and the over-sensitive..
It has to.
if it doesn't
it isn't Art
it's Craft.
If you want art....and I do...
you have to let it go
let it flow
let it wash over you
like a fabulous O
like the best French kiss you ever had
like the best chocolate bar
like the long hot shower after a day of hard physical labor.....
Well, I have a martini waiting for me and they go bad fast !
more on this subject and again and again..
Watch out for Mr. Phil S. Stein
He is artless......

Just Making Bacon....err Goat Cheese.....

Accused says he was just milking goat

The Associated Press
Published: August 10th, 2007 06:58 PM

A man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn at Eatonville's Pioneer Farm Museum where he worked.

err...um, I think it's OK to date your co-workers, but on the job sex is too risky...for this very reason.....

I'm a farm girl...I had an organic farm in Lakebay and I had goats and they were real cute...in fact , I've owned several goats.....and not once did this occur to me...

So happy it was in Eatonville and not T-Town....and people snickered when our Legislature passed the Pierce County Anti-Sex With Your Pet Law !

OMG...it's a TIME WARP... Ladies & Gentlemen...

From Cathy of California comes this found set of old window display fotos......
It's like a trip to funkoma !

one of my favorite scenes from The Big Lebowski

from this...and now you know about The F)&*(&*) Eagles, Man...

bad video...of Tacoma's own The F(&()$&(@ Eagles...he bangs on those drums like Animal from The Muppet Show....

Girl Trouble Girl Trouble

I don't know why ......but I can't post this way cool
Wig Out Girl Trouble video.....waaah......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOrILYGV6dE
so go here....
and I can't attend the Prom at Sanford & Son...waaah....
I'm gonna miss the F)#)*)#0- Eagles......
and you know..
only me and about 7 people from Tacoma know WHAT that means !
But here's one by way of Derek at Exit133...

Oooo, Looking out my Backdoor......

well, ok, my front door ...
I'm so mad...
I no longer have my very own CC Billboard...
I have a Shriner billboard...
which is fine since I collect the stuff..
But when did they do that..I was just out there selling a bicycle...


It's so Crumb...my view, that is.....well other stuff too....

Thought For The Decade......

Come 2025 there will be more than 1 billion postmenopausal women on the planet, according to Newsweek journalist Barbara Kantrowitz, co-author of a new book Is It Hot in Here? Or is It Me?
So.....about 1/6th of the world's population will be cranky, resistant to your demands for more, and living in stretch pants.......
Mmm, Welcome To My World......

I'm a Star !

oh boy, so I get a visit from pal..Derek.....what a darn fine time to chat with him about so many things...Tacoma!
We usually only see each other in a bar or sitting on a friends couch ..drinking and laughing.....also one time I killed my computer and he fixed it for me for FREE...
'cause he's like that....
I's telling him about the Wall of Fame at the Tacoma Mall.....which was by the mervyn's which is now closed.....click the weird space below for a pic...


my daughter Annie and Tara Arndt and Ainsley Seago were on the wall (and many many other Tacoma kids...all around their late 20s to mid 30s now I guess) and how it was rather like the Music Man.....ya know ....shyster shimmies into town and fleeces the hillbillies of their innocence and cash.....well, more of that story later....must do research...where is it now?...and more pictures...
The program is the brainchild of Larry Sagen,aSeattle man who says he started thy Youth Hall of Fame International after he grew tired of seeing so many negative images.

"My sense is that if you keep telling kids long enough, hard enough, creatively enough how bad they are, they'll believe it," Sagen said.

Last year, Sagen started the program with a Wall of Fame at the Tacoma Mall that honored more than 900 kids. That program was successful, Sagen said, but faltered when adult leadership pulled out. ...

yeesh funkoma vintage has such pressure to make a proper website....yah, right....
I'm a one-girl show here.....

Clothes make the man....Naked people have little or no influence.
Mark Twain.
So thank you all so much for loving the fine Tacoma Vintage I gather...
and everyday and everyway, I'll always strive to Hook you up ......not like that..
but just with groovin' stuff..
Shop/Buy/Eat/Drink Tacoma.....and be kind to one another....