another winnie post

jewelry hang ups. blah blah. the succulent-growing and multitudes of flowers,  and the vegetable harvest of 2014 was fantabulous! Lots of tomatoes, peppers, bell and mild munching kind, tomatillos, string beans, eggplants, oh my.

Eggplants galore! these did better than I thought they would. This variety is dairyu ichiban, Japanese eggplant. They are still producing now in late October after being planted in my big big pots in May. I water everyday and feed a diluted hippie dippie fertilizer.

So yeah, UP with Japanese eggplant.

and when I wasn't being outside in the sunshine, I do live a perfect life, I was inside in the air conditioning making my home look better and work better for me.
 We are finding that we are happier living in the Winnebago than we thought we would be. We thought it would be cramped and crazy. But once you get rid of a lot of things.... and reduce down to what you like right now, it is really quite calming.
We don't want to go back to living in a house unless it is very small.

The steps made from pallets and the pots and pots of flowers and vegetables and Homegrown Tomatoes, and the patio with comfy furniture has made it like a little paradise.

Or like we are on vacation everyday.

I made a jewelry corner, and re did the closet. Hung up hooks and hung things on the hooks.
The Winnie has the tiniest closets.
Up there I do keep clothes, both summer and winter storage and under here, Shoes and Boots!

My favoritest trick was to hang my bracelets on the curtain rod, and to hang a lace doily on the wall, and hang my earrings on it. I also pin some brooches there on the curtain, but most of my jewelry is in a box on the shelf. This adventure has made me really really cull out my 43 boxes of clothes.

Jewels from the junk drawer

I've been making necklaces with hearts lately....and next I think I shall work on earrings and brooches again.... I have tons of little things I collect, one earring, vintage chains, broken brooches....old hardware....and newly made  American-made  lead-free pewter charms and fixings.......

Aquarius...70s medallion...with a vintage chain, prettied with a aqua glass bead........

 Buddah box and wings......

Sparkle tiger...

sold..locket and key with Lion....
I might revisit this theme....

70s Rainbow love....Bruce 

Cherry Love with 70s rainbow Dennis....Lots of hearts and love here for Dennis...where ever he may be.

Rhinestone Big Sailor Love.........

Cartoon rainbow Kris with girly princess charms...

Queen with pearls and locket........

Modern hippie....

Wise owl and a teardrop locket....

Floral vintage locket heart...with  a crystal drop....

as you know..I'm not much interested in things that are new....Especially anything new that was made ...within about 10 or so years old...It's junk.

Fast Fashion. Garbage.
H&M, Ikea, 21, Old Slavey, barf.
The "quality" is dreadful. Even imports sold at KMart in the 70s are of better quality.
In the early 80s, right after I moved to Gravel Road Junction (Tacoma), I stopped buying crap from China. As much as possible.

That meant, I went without a lot of stuff over the years. Thank God and whomevah' that I have never suffered the embarrassment of wearing old clothes, buying old furniture, re-using everything I could get my hands on!
Even my husband and dog are second-hand. I'm so crafty, I make people.

Wearing old stuff, putting old rusty farm junk in my yard.......people used to tease me, and roll their eyes, and generally treat me like I was nutz....well, now the great middle class has decided that old junky crap is Awesome!
this makes me giggle.

Of course, Now....we know why buying cheap crap from China is bad:
Poison,poison  metals, poison pet food, slave working conditions, downward pressure on 1st world wages..mass unemployment in America as all factories were shipped to some 3rd World HellHole.
Bruce Springsteen tried to tell you....
hell, even Billy Joel saw it!
(Allentown)


The Trad and his comments about Brooks Brothers.
So now that it's too late to buy quality American, Canadian or European made goods...tiny business ...that make quality  handcrafted goods are popping up like 'shrooms after a good rain. They offer the quality that the Made in Hellhole label cannot provide. Small business is King/Queen again!! Shop Local movements are threatening to WallMart !
Good !

I see Gap crap (when new, sold for a pretty penny) at yard sales,  that are falling apart and are pilling and look like shit, knowing these garments are only a year old!
from Mister Mort......As a vintage dealer, I can personally attest that a decades old dress, stored properly and cleaned according to the directions will last for decades and decades.

Old names in the quality business are gaining respect, if they've retained the classic quality. LLBean, Red Wing, Woolrich, Patagonia, Levis, Filson, etc....Workwear, worn and patched and stained, authentically so by Real Work, are becoming treasures. Remnants of an older age, with dents, rust, patina and the signs of use and the passage of time are works of art. The Japanese, who know something about culture and quality and art have this word....WabiSabi.

Proper customer service rather than everything Self-Service is again being demanded.
Now that unions in America have all but been destroyed, workers are finally figuring out...why we need unions.They are a beacon of respect for the working class to get fair wages, liveable wages, injury protection, disability insurance, and meaningful medical coverage.

All business is pressured by union gains to meet the standard. The decline of jobs and wages are because of the decline of unions. How to bust a union? Ship the factory and the services to a 3rd world Hellhole, that's how.
How to stop the total slide? Stop buying cheap crap.
Stop shopping at Target.
Stop shopping at WalMart.
Buy from a local business if you have to buy an import. Hell I drive an import! But I bought Secondhand and local.
It's not hard to make these changes. I've been doing it for decades. Even my laptop is third hand.When it needs repair, I take it to a local, small businesss computer repair guy.
Hey, let's make all industries come back to America. Your paycheck will thank you.

Mrs. Parker

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

if all I had to do..
if all I wanted to do..
all day,
I'd read and quote Dorothy Parker.

I finished this embellished broken pin.....it had lost 2 of its pink rhinestones, and that left just the holes in the brass stamping......
so a hole must be filled, and I filled it in with brass loops from which I hung brass chains....which is so me..
if it's droopy and falling....I love it.
I hope you do too.

on etsy, thatyountvillegirl......
 It's Queenly.....
a Brass heraldic shape, white enamel, and a brass key......all with patina.
The locket is also enameled with white, and a tiny rose with green leaves...and an oval pearly bead.

Mrs. Parker....
from PoemHunter.........
Born in 1893,  at 23 years old  in "1916, Parker sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was given an editorial position on the magazine. In 1917 she married Edwin Pond Parker II, a stockbroker, whom she later divorced. Edwin was wounded in World War I, he was an alcoholic, and during the war he became addicted to morphine.

From 1917 to 1920 Parker worked for Vanity Fair. With two other writers Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood, Parker formed the nucleus of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal luncheon club held at New York City's Algonquin Hotel on Forty-Fourth Street.
Other members included Ring Lardner and James Thurber. Parker was usually the only woman in the group."

"Alan Rudolph's film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, depicted the life of the author and her friends around the famous Algonquin Round Table."

Surprise ! the 20s mostly.....

Adorn yrself....and be Charmed, I'm sure

So I'm back to putting it all together.....
I pick up little charms, bags of one lost earring...bags of broken jewelry, and all manner of beads, things, tinies, and what-have-you........
all for making jewelry...
Chains and keys.....especially .....and I love 50s earrings because the beads are so pretty....lots of Czech glass and lots of crystal beads.
I bought some lead-free trinkets and fixings too......I hate to say I told you so...(no, I don't) about that cheap Chinese crap......
So...
From trusted merchants I bought a few new findings and charms..but I am really only interested in making new from the old.....
The world is so full of magical things...we should all be as happy as kings.......or queens.RLS


Angel wings are pretty common in handmade jewelry right now and I couldn't resist buying a pair. I love little boxes, little lockets, and tiny cases........
Mark soldered the wings to the back of this shadow box......I love the way it "carmelized" it....and I love how it isn't glued together...nothing wrong with glue (I'll use a lot of that!)......
the Ruin of it........decay and used are themes that run through all my art.


Shadow box buddha necklace

Vintaged patina with heavenly wings, a locket box with a free swinging buddha charm......We can muse about...the freedom of flying, of floating free, with the key to unlock it all.

Suspended from a vintage chain, this hand-soldered box is attached to wings, and holds a buddha.

Faceted rosary beads, silver rings and weighted with an antique barrel skeleton key.

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100% copyright, design, writing and images....
these are one of a kind necklaces I make from the random tiny things in my jewelers drawer...so each is quite unique...


Jungle Safari......Victorian Safari.....shoot the animals with a camera ......not a gun.

Sparkle Tiger!

Metal tiger charm necklace with a sparkle star. Simple....

The lion is king....here he's hanging with a tiny brass oval locket.....and an old brass key......

Sometimes it's the Little Things....

Like vintage jewelry....
We all have basic black...
Denim jeans...
a favorite cardigan or pullover sweater...

Don't be Blah...
Don't be Boring....
Accessorize!

just added to my etsy shop...
Czech glass rainbow fall sunset brooch and earrings....




Moonglow lucite 4 strand vintage necklace and earrings set....in all the colors you love about Autumn !




Squirrel ! but no Moose...





One of the best colors ever invented: Chartreuse! Zinnas or Marigolds, if you like, in a clip-back 60s metal...Fun!



Space Age? Twiggy? Mod? 60s? YES!