I don't do fashion ...

I just like neat clothes. I like to make cute and nifty things. I like things to be well-made and last a long time.
This is why I've worn "old clothes" .....now called "Vintage !"

This is why I make a lot of things. I often can't find the things I like...so I make them....and I hope others like them too.
I was snowed out of my photography space...so cold in there...but Look ! the sun has come back...and a lot of the snow has melted. Sunday and Monday, new listings shall be listed!

Lots of shoes and boots, vintage Levis, some jewelry and other stuff I can't remember now.

I only lost one branch and my summer tent is destroyed....the yard looks like the shrubs had a war....Look, my gnome is peeking thru the snow-blanket.......so better days are ahead.

3 necklaces I just made and will list on Sunday the 22nd day of January 2012.



This one has a golden chain, with a simple geometry-inspired metal tube.
simple.

this necklace is a long pendant with a vintage skeleton key and an Alice in Wonderland theme with its teapot, blue heart and tiny Excelsior vintage key.

this little cutie uses a vintage chain, and a zipper head...that's all. The zipper pull says COED ....really.

Hip....Cool....Bon !!! Von !!! Wheelie !!! and January !!!!

I never get tired of mentioning my fabulous children and grandchildren...and Mark of course.....and in this month's issue of Tacoma City Arts is an article about What It Is...... & that is Girl Trouble.....who kicks it old school because they are old school...
It's not easy being cheesy....and knowing the difference between hip and cool, and why that might matter..........
So Bon Von Wheelie......she doesn't know how much I admire her....I didn't get to do (yet) so many things I want to do with my very short life, but I did get to raise the Worlds Best Children........
January was the first....and she really let me know that I had better get up pretty early in the morning to get the jump on her....now January is a mommy...oh Time really is the Best Revenge!!
Thank you City Arts, Emily White, Bon and her boys....and January for being.
too many days it's the words of Mrs. Parker "Oh What fresh hell is this"....but today I feel fine......

son, dil, Mark, gd #1..

more fam ----


There is a reason I keep Girl Trouble right up there on my Myspace page next to 2 of my 3 kids......I'm all about old school Tacoma...there was nothing wrong with Tacoma before, and I don't think it's much improved in the last quarter century...it is a bit cleaner thanks to the EPA, and lower Pacific in dt is permanently fucked up...but I survive....in my rumpled digs on Broadway Baby.......making the day prettier and funkier and well dressed and well accessorized....

Here is a bit from a movie about Dorothy Parker....and then a few of her sayings...she knew what life was is and could...






and then a tribute to the passing of Blossom Dearie...and a most endearing and painfully truthful song about the self-conscious hipster...........

Saddened to learn of the recent death of Blossom Dearie...one of my favorite little jazz singers who was hip and cool because she just did what she wanted to do....which is to sing and sing and sing.........
Blossom... was a delight...and I felt happy just knowing she was on the planet......






one more from Mrs Parker....Bed...my favorite place to be...guess where I am typing this? from my bed in Tacoma.

Best songs about Tacoma & Blogging & stuff

Love love this one about us....the lonely bloggers.....that Fewster is mad...and Heidi's songs touch me......and that child of his..Hannah.....what a big chip off the ol' block ........Artwalk night, Folksingers in Hell will be singing with us....

and I just wanted to mention that January's birthday is January 15th...she's 39. She's my first born. I love her more than I could ever tell you...no matter how many words I use....and aren't I a special mom, that I could arrange for a National Holiday just for her on her special special day??




here's a few vids....at the bottom.......
no intro needed for Neko...who used to dance with January for and with Girl Trouble...doesn't get much more Tacoma than that.......



not so much about Tacoma, but Fewster is Tacoma...


not about Tacoma, but named For Tacoma....and you never go wrong with a Leonard Cohen song....


So Just how BIG is Tacoma....well, I can hold it in my heart....


and because Jerry Miller lives here, and it's been toooo long since I got drunk and made him play this song, for me...Just For Me ! I mean, how many people met in SF in the late 60s/early 70s and then, independently moved to Tacoma??


And Chan Marshall doing a cover of my other fave Moby song.(moby GRAPE !)Naked If I Want To. I love this one soooo much because the lyrics really capture the times of my misspent youth, man....