Just a cute little collection of kids sweatshirts from the 50s and 60s.
Hand embroidered in varigated thread, rah rah rah! Edgemont Eagles!
and on the back, a big embroidered E! look at the cute little stitchy repair patch.
The Seattle Worlds Fair!! cute 60s boatneck sweatshirt with the Space Needle and the Monorail. The Future of Seattle is a big drilling machine permanently stuck underground at the waterfront. Those crazy futurists!
And a simple basic classic red sweatshirt for a kid.
And a reminder, that funkomavintage is on vacation for most of March 2014, to return bigger and happier in early April 2014.
and on many shopping trips on the Coast of the West....another fantastic Chinese Dinner for Valentines Day.......so I haven't put up much new vintage lately...a few cute women's vintage skirts, sweaters and tops....so..let's review...
******Here's some Kids Vintage ....Candy for the Eye, and then a little Vinegar of the Soul....
below, I ask for 3 minutes of your time...
Please watch this vid from Regretsy...It expresses Some of my True Feelings about etsy, about selling on line, and being a 'Capitalist Crafter' (c)...after selling groovy-ness to you since the '60s...man...and now online for more than a decade....I've seen it all...
The Little Levi's tag has a place for a phone number so the jacket can call home..Awwwwww...
another Awwwww....look at the tag, and the orange little e....
Adorable 60s plaid pleated dress for a sweet little toddler...after her nap, that is..........
And for the hip 70s baby....Sweet little bell bottoms....
yeah, I know!
99.99% of you are AWESOME AND KIND... and we all have to put up with nasty people...le sigh...CLICK the little youtube symbol in the right bottom corner, or else a Nasty Ad pops up over the video...and you can't watch it. Stupid Google.
so yeah, from now on, I'm putting moustaches on EVERYTHING!!
December 19, Folksingers In Hell, and Tacomen, and a Fire Juggler! details to come! We also have bands lined up for First Night....we aren't on any official schedule. We are outlaws.
So, a couple of things new in the shop....... men, ladies and kids......... very vintage 30s 40s childs metal rocker with a canvas cover that zips off for a spin in the laundry. $45.00
A nice bentwood handwoven cane rocker from the 60s....$70.00 60s MCM Pantone-style chartreuse pillow....$25.00
Sweet vintage Nativity scene cuties..... a few wise men, a few animals, and of course, The Baby Jesus! most are priced from $5.00 to about $20.00 a golden Nativity set from Japan in the 50s/60s....$35.00
70s orange $22.00, or yellow $29.00...footstools. modern Hanna Anderson leopard clogs $38.00, size 6.5 or 7.
Guess black leather boots,size 7.5 - 8....$55.00
Sweeeeet pair of top quality gold metallic sandals from Chie Mihara, size 39, US 9, $35.00
and, since I am closing the Tacoma shop soon, and going online and doing alterna-shows in the future.... I shall begin placing ads on my favorite blogs...that have something to do with style,vintage and design.... Design Is Mine is one of my fave blogs...it comes from Portland. Yeah.
so go there and look for my little ad....awwww, aint it cute??
So, guess what I was doing August 18, 1979??? I was in labor and having a baby! wow, am I talented or what...
I love this saying...I'm so crafty I make humans...
Well, today is my youngest childs Birthday... I really, wasn't sure I was up to handling it all...I mean I already had 2 other amazing intelligent kids...was I crazy. Yes. It was surely one of the top best 5 decisions of my life....(top 3..have 3 kids)
So who is this stunningly clever child...the mommy-looking one in the top picture? She's Annie Rose Bastian..
Always a sweet and sensitive baby, she has grown into a real person that astounds me...with her ability to be her own person... I find this trait missing from most humans...Annie isn't a pale copy of some lifestyle magazine.... She has made her life just what she wants...and the love and smartness is like a fragrant aura around her...she has an amazing gift for making you feel the center of attention...
When she was in elementary school, which really did not suit her, and had I been a better mother, I'd have home-schooled her more...but she had me make her, among others, a Pippi Longstocking costume and an Alice In Wonderland costume so she could wear them to school..often...and not just on Halloween...Can you imagine the nasty comments she had to put up with as a 9 year old girl in a middle-class neighborhood? It didn't deter her from letting her Freak Flag Fly !
She had a lot of fun at Grant Elementary tho...but she always kept her teachers on their toes...she wasn't one to receive their knowledge without some challenges to the orthodoxy and provincialism.
She's a talented artist who sews her own clothes and makes things for her home..she paints..she gardens...she recycles...she writes...she crafts....she embroiders and appliques and changes things up, to remake everyday things so the world she creates for her husband and daughter is even more lovely and unique than the boring old daily.
A picture she took...I love her lighting and what she created with only a few items...so evocative...
She mostly vegan...far more than I...if you go to her house to eat you'll get brown rice, raisins, and walnuts in your salad and you will love it ! It will taste like the best meal you have ever had because she has a knack for mixing things you wouldn't think would go together, but Annie makes them wonderful.....She mixed me a special tea blend...for my ailments...
She decided to have her baby in a warm water tub with a midwife...and she did...& even with a supportive community, that is a first-world triumph. But that attests to her fortitude ...
Her husband is a darling and my granddaughter Ruby is a Bee Charmer...I love how she takes me around the yard, climbs her trees, invites me up, shows me the chickens, the berry patch, the swing, and makes sure I have a trowel so I can dig with her while we look for worms.
When I am with Annie I sometimes I forget she's my daughter...I see her as her own person...like someone I met in college, someone who works at the co-op, an artist at a Farmer's Market...because she is.....
The thing I love about her most is her super-sharp wit and dry observances of life, of the people she meets and how it all doesn't knock her off the path...while she packs it all away in her mind ....all the cacophony of the modern world...
So Happy Birthday Annie...thanks for letting me be your Mom!
no, I still haven't scanned in the mountains of pictures I took the old-fashioned way...I have only a darn few of digitals...so here goes. She's the tiny one in these first 2...
Working furiously to craft the specialness that is funkoma.....plans are that my daughter Annie will come man the funkoma vintage booth with me December 13.....yippie....Annie and I used to do shows together when she was a baby/toddler/young'en. And she was an integral part of our Organic Farm and when we used to sell at the Gig Harbor Farmers Market in the early 90s. She took this picture...I love it.....
Here's a very small sample of the kinds of things that will be with us at the show....... Handmade T shirt dresses and tops.....
