Let's hear it for the boys...

the things guys like... 

Old cars, old trucks, and pie!

Pie...see! mmmm fresh from the oven.  here is a delicious!! Peach Pie recipe from Smitten Kitchen....

 and what to wear while rolling the dough...and sprinkling the cinnamon..... maybe this...

Work apron....   Full denim bib apron, handmade of indigo blue cotton denim with pockets on the front and long ties.
perfectly useful in the kitchen, the wood shop or just making stuff.

I make these one at a time, by request, and I take extra time on the bib. It has a work-intensive detail around the top edges...I finish the edge with a facing, and make tough ties...I don't use cheap flimsy twill ties! you pay a bit more, but you get a higher quality sturdy apron.

handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website   and a few things over at our Zibbet shop

handmade Waxed canvas tote
Vintage waxed canvas is paired with a vintage nail bag and is remade into a sturdy tote bag. It's a reclaimed rustic design that will work for men or women.

Reusing a waxed cotton tent, it's combined with a Mississippi lumberyard nail bag featuring a very old truck. Free Delivery!

  and a few things over at our Zibbet shop
old license plate is now a clock...

handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website   and a few things over at our Zibbet shop
Handmade leather bracelets...
Men's black leather cuff bracelet with either rusty vintage key and metal plate, or a 30s vintage buckle.
Each handmade and unique cuff bracelet is made of sturdy recycled black leather with a hand sewn assemblage of different things attached with vintage button thread.

 The leather is recycled from vintage jackets, hand cut and then the vintage key, or anchor charm, or old hardware is securely sewn on.
Each of the boho bracelets is handmade, and each one is different. You can decide which one you want. Great for the ladies too!
handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website   and a few things over at our Zibbet shop 

handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website We love to make jewelry of vintage charms, some shiny, some with timeworn patina...
We handmade this collection in the little studio from things collected along the way.

 they're at our Etsy store, and on our website too!

wow! 
handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website  

Made from an authentic USN Eagle insignia....   handmade goods at our website  

 

butter my butt and call me a biscuit....

yellow fellow....the golden tone....silk and honey.....They call me Mellow Yellow.....quite rightly...

the california poppy and the pansy are this years girl......and the sunflower and the carwots are from last years model....

 pretty dresses....pale yellow with lace.... and a chiffon number with rhinestones!  

and the men folk....a 40s butter yellow shirt, a 70s USDA Choice Dad tshirt.......

A 60s button-down shirt, but with a cooler Tiki 'tude....

Hey Jamaica ! a very vintage 50s rayon Union Jack Pirate print shirt....and a butter and grass plaid LLBean 60s vintage wool jacket....

 
They call me Mellow Yellow......

Button Up Your Overcoat

it's cold....so button up your overcoat...or your jacket...or zip it !
The song Button Up Your Overcoat,  was written in 1928, a singing  lady makes a plea for her fella to stay warm and healthy!
"Button up your overcoat,
When the wind is free,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me! "

It was recorded early in 1929 by singer Helen Kane. Kane's little girl voice was the inspiration for the voice of cartoon character Betty Boop, who used Kane's famous catchphrase Boop Boop a Doop !

I bet these girls have cold legs...don't forget to wear pants !

whether you like wool, plaid, twill, denim, a letter jacket, or a wool sport coat....I can hook you up!

2 classic 50s jackets, in a red/black twill, and a zipper front Black Bear shadow plaid....

'74 Letter jacket...

Sears 70s denim with a fake sheepskin lining....

 vintage Harris Tweed

50s fleck tweed wool jacket....

and for the ladies... A black wool cape with a long pointy elf hood & ...

...this beautiful 60s mohair and mouton ivory wool and fur coat from Roos-Atkins, a very high-end California department store.

Silky black real fox, a 40s jacket, a very glam noir classic...

a vintage 60s red wool coat, a sweet basic that can be dressed up with a big fluffy muffler, or a tie-on fur collar....

And now, a little Hard To believe...tap-dancing to Button Up Your Overcoat.



BUTTON UP YOUR OVERCOAT
(DeSylva / Brown / Henderson)
Helen Kane


Listen, big boy,
Now that you got me made,
Goodness, but I'm afraid,
Somethin's gonna happen to you!
Listen, big boy,
You gotta be hooked, and how,
I would die if I should lose you now!

Button up your overcoat,
When the wind is free,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!

Eat an apple every day,
Get to bed by three,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!

Be careful crossing streets, ooh-ooh,
Cut out sweets, ooh-ooh,
Lay off meat, ooh-ooh,
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum!

Wear your flannel underwear,
When you climb a tree,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!

Button up your overcoat,
When the wind is free,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!

When you sass a traffic cop,
Use diplomacy;
Just take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!

Beware of frozen funds, ooh-ooh,
Stocks and bonds, ooh-ooh,
Dockside thugs, ooh-ooh,
You'll get a pain and ruin your bankroll!

Keep the spoon out of your cup,
When you're drinking tea,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!

Don't sit on hornet's tails, ooh-ooh!
Or on nails, ooh-ooh!
Or third rails, ooh-ooh!
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum!

Keep away from bootleg hooch
When you're on a spree,
Oh, take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!


*****

rustic and then we move right to the plaid

take a beat-up old license plate and make something of it!

Vintage Wyoming License plate clock

It's recycled....a vintage license plate that once rode on the bumper of a Wyoming truck.
Love that bucking bronco and the cowboy with his hat in the air. A perfect clock for the Wyoming native, the man cave, or the cowboy who lives in a condo.
Deep gold metal vintage license plate, brown cowboy and horse, with a new clock movement. It's in rustic condition.
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It runs on one AA battery. You can hang it from the hook on the back or thread a rope thru the holes in the plate, that once were for screws....
I have a few other plates that I'll make a clock with if you'd rather have....
Maine, Montana, Arizona, Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Washington state.

more handmade goodies....
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http://www.etsy.com/shop/thatyountvillegirl

Clock Lobster

Rather have Arizona? I can do it!

Lots of Levis coming this week....One pair of new old stock....

 

Plaid...

and another US Navy pea coat...

and now...a delighful poem...

Mambo Cadillac

by Barbara Hamby

Drive me to the edge in your Mambo Cadillac,
turn left at the graveyard and gas that baby, the black

night ringing with its holy roller scream. I'll clock
you on the highway at three a.m., brother, amen, smack

the road as hard as we can, because I'm gonna crack
the world in two, make a hoodoo soup with chicken necks,

a gumbo with plutonium roux, a little snack
before the dirt-and-jalapeño stew that will shuck
the skin right off your slinky hips, Mr. I'm-not-stuck

in-a-middle-class-prison-with-someone-I-hate sack
of blues. Put on your high-wire shoes, Mr. Right, and stick

with me. I'm going nowhere fast, the burlesque
queen of this dim scene, I want to feel the wind, the Glock

in my mouth, going south, down-by-the-riverside shock
of the view. Take me to Shingles Fried Chicken Shack

in your Mambo Cadillac. I was gone, but I'm back
for good this time. I've taken a shine to daylight. Crank

up that radio, baby, put on some dance music
and shake your moneymaker, doll, rev it up to Mach
2, I'm talking to you, Mr. Magoo. Sit up, check

out that blonde with the leopard print tattoo. O she'll lick
the sugar right off your doughnut and bill you, too, speak

French while she do the do. Parlez-vous français? So, pick
me up tonight at ten in your Mambo Cadillac

Chile, Argentina, Peru. Take some time off work;
we're gonna be a lot longer than a week

or two. Is this D-day or Waterloo? White or black—

it's up to you. We'll be in Mexico tonight. Pack
a razor, pack some glue. Things fall apart off the track,

and that's where we'll be, baby, in our Mambo Cadillac,
cause you're looking for love, but I'm looking for a wreck.

"Mambo Cadillac" by Barbara Hamby, from All-Night Lingo Tango. © University of Pittsburg Press, 2009.