What I've made lately....

Scary....Skulls....Pirates...Dead....hey it's the Witching Season.... so get some scare on....
 all the Zombies need Fashion and Style everyday!
Carnival
Circus
oh yes!
Not just for Halloween..

Gray knit with sheer black skulls and bones....Sheer jersey scarf is printed with burnout Skulls and Crossbones ....
Long lightweight jersey scarf in gray and black has fringe and wraps and flutters .... LAST 1 !!

Shiny black knit with silver metallic Pirate skeletons, swords, skulls and bones....Silky jersey scarf is printed with shiny sparkling silver pirates smiling skulls and bones ....Wrap once or twice, tie or let it hang....Long lightweight jersey scarf in black has fringe and wraps and flutters ...


Like teeth? Cameo? Creepy?

Yes a tooth.
Ceramic tooth, from a dental supply, is a creepy cameo...
On a metal adjustable ring, plated with sterling silver, is a scalloped circle of vintage black lace, and....
a tooth...and unlike most other adjustable metal rings, this one hides the adjusting area....
and no pinch!
It can adjust from a size 5.5 to about a 10.5.

Still not creeped out? Like a laugh?

handmade fabric pins...DEAD.....witches....brooms....handbags and shoes....bones....teeth....all in thatyountvillegirl shop!

and some melted zombie leggings.....

Waterlogged......

Arrrgh...
My dream of becoming a pirate, er, um ...a Sailor..... is coming True!

Tall ships with square sails

The other day Mark and I visited The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle on Lake union. Boats and boats and boats. Some canoes, rowboats, power boats, Cris Craft, and sailboats....all of wood construction!
Boats with motors ...boats without motors. Big boats...small boats.



The water is so wide and my boat is so small.......
I still can't yet comprehend how boats float and sails catch wind...and don't sink, and sail around as easily as I get up and walk down the block. It will come to me ...I'll get the pieces in my mind to fit together......



The Chieftain and the Lady Washington were docked down there also and we toured them both!
yes the very ship in Pirates of the Caribbean !
All that hemp rigging!
It is really tiny. You'd expect it to be the size of a small cruise ship, eh?
But No!
I stood on the deck, and walked from stem to stern, port to starboard....down to the galley, held on to the helm.......
and tried to imagine a full crew of 12 and tons of cargo...sailing around the Cape and up and down the West Coast and off to Hawaii for trade.....
It just seemed small.
Fine, big enough for a sweet sailboat, but ....small!



from The Historical Seaport website:The new Lady Washington is a full-scale reproduction of the original Lady Washington. Built in the British Colony of Massachusetts in the 1750s, the original vessel carried freight between colonial ports until the American Revolutionary War, when she became an American privateer. In 1787, after the war, she was given a major refit to prepare her for a unprecedented trading voyage around Cape Horn. In 1788, she became the first American vessel to make landfall on the west coast of North America.

A pioneer in Pan-Pacific trade, she was the first American ship to visit Honolulu, Hong Kong and Japan. Lady Washington opened the black pearl and sandalwood trade between Hawaii and the Orient when King Kamehameha became a partner in the ship.

The modern Lady Washington was thoroughly researched by historians and constructed by skilled shipwrights. She was launched as part of the 1989 Washington State Centennial celebration. The new Lady Washington meets all of the U.S. Coast Guard safety requirements for a 21stcentury ship.

Arrrgh ! Talk Like A Pirate Day......

hey matey.....funkoma can never be too Pirate...so she celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day by getting a new tattoo......at Dreamer's Chant Tattoo....





Last night, September's 3rd Thursday Artwalk,

Avast !!!!

t' music was great.....ye Folksingers In Hell

sang smartly about fancy yuppies and drug addicts Shanghai'd in New Tacoma.......ye Bilge rats that didn't crawl outa yer smelly bunks...

ye missed the Grog and the fine snackies.....Don't worry ye scurvy dogs.....and wharf rats.....ye favorite pirates on Broadway be puttin' on

another fine revue......hopin' David & Heidi will lower their standards and play for ye again............Arrrrr!!!

this has little to do with Pirates or Folksingers In Hell...I just like it......

Kind of The End of A Year !

Have a Vintage-y Holiday End-Of-The-Year ! And let's do it again...

Thank you all ! for a great year with funkoma vintage

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Without your support, kudos, interest, appreciation, and Dollars !

what a crappy year this would have been !

Tacoma-ites !

I hope to see you on weekends...at the shop ..
lots of new stuff is coming in ...more DIY, kids and furniture and house stuff....
and I'll be out and about ..having more fun.....

including

First Night !

In Downtown T-Town!