Wednesday, November 16, 2011

A few of my favorite men things...

When there's Red Wings, when there's belt buckles, and plaid cowboy shirts.....I simply go look at Brown boots, Levi's and safari shirts....these are a few of my favorite men's things....


like the song says.....


Willis and Geiger. Hemingway wore shirts like this. nuff said.


source.


Old school...the real good stuff from the 70s, not like the crap made today.




More stuff of legends.....
Red Wing Boots at funkomavintage





Cashmere scarf... handmade from a recycled cashmere sweater.



Men. Men. Men. Vintage men.





















Men. Men. Men. Vintage Levis, and an LL Bean jacket.



Today

sittin' in the Chrysler
Listening to Liza
Gaying off with the hand sanitizer
You're no wiser
you're a miser
you're a Neo-con in  a diaper.

You a swiper
a coniver.
You'd rat off your brother for a fiver.

Sell out the country
soft and crunchy
funky monkey
Power junkie.

You're so lucky
you got all the money.
We're gonna get it back
sonny
come Monday.

It ain't funny
gonna do ya like
Quaddafi
It ain't gonna be pretty
Hard times in the city
ain't life shitty.



 (c) 2011Mark Schindele

Monday, November 14, 2011

The bride/party girl/housewife/gardener wore black...

this week...there's a lot of black.
I like black. a lot. It's always right....here's a few looks from around the internetz, and then the new stuff in my shop...Including a jacket modeled on the suit that Marilyn wore when she married Joe DiMaggio in San Francisco in 1954. I got married in San Francisco, but I wore an antique lace 2 pc set I made myself...mmmm..must scan those photos.

....if I had to wear only one era, it would be, with no hesitation the 20s. Jazz Age, Roaring 20s....ha cha cha ! some of my favorites are the Gish Sisters, and Louise Brooks, and of course....Chaplin.

The Gish Sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, with a friend, Richard Barthelmess.


Theda Bara with a skeleton.


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 a leather top hat.....I used to make these in the early 70s....






Cute 1969 pattern


from my new shop update...



this jacket is like the one Marilyn wore on her 1954 wedding day to Joe. Her's was a brown suit with a mink collar....but it was made up in black wool, mostly, with mink, fox or rabbit collars....so cute !



this pic is from the San Francisco Examiner newspaper
















Friday, November 11, 2011

deer dear

deer are so cute...who doesn't love them? gardeners perhaps... they eat the lovely flowers..especially the roses. When I lived in the country, I tried so many methods...tying bars of Irish Spring soap to the roses and trees...fences...wire cages...Nothing worked until Mark peed around the perimeter of the yard.





  Inside at the Deer’s Head diner in 1938, the long counter with round stools, tile work, and stainless steel trim completes the look, a design that still dominates at most diners in New York today.
source


vintage kids deer sweater





deer mitts






deer antlers




deer shadowbox
from etsy seller, Other Such Nonsense





Supayana deer top
from etsy seller Supayana




Bambi

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Handmade is the Ultimate Luxury

the latest from the hand of me.





Fox pine green cashmere mitts, trimmed with black buttons...
and basic pine green cashmere mitts, with black lace.


Barkcloth, lace, and a bit of cashmere in a little hat. Cute button.



Cashmere and cotton hat.




Scarves.




Trees.






glittery blue angora scarves....




a restyled vintage bracelet of silvery winter leaves....is improved with keys...

Save The Dates

The world is a lovely place....you may have noticed this. I've assembled a few garden pictures in a 2012 calendar...and you can buy one!
no pressure.
The cover is a picture of the guerrilla garden I made in downtown Tacoma in the fall of 2008 when I had my shop. I used bricks found in a parking lot, and I jumped the cyclone fence, cleaned up the garbage, stacked the bricks, hauled in soil, planted jonquils, daffodils, tulips, crocus....pansies, primroses and lots of flower seeds.
I watered it when needed with a bucket of water I carried across the street from the shop. In early 2009, the city of Tacoma ripped up my street and the rest is history. The garden was a miracle of small proportions....Beauty in the midst of abandonment....something sweet in the middle of a ruin. When I left the bldg. in May 2010, the garden was destroyed by vandals and stupidity.

 I didn't tear down to build up...I made something from nothing. There was nothing wrong with my old street, but rich people demanded a new street, so the city destroyed many small businesses, so one big corporate business would sign some papers.
Doesn't matter. I have the pictures. I did something besides commit commerce.



I included pictures of empty trees and a lone crow.

I included pictures of the first Spring harvest of radishes.

If you like it, you can order one from Zazzle, using the link up on the right side.
I'll also be listing them in my funkomavintage shop on etsy.
Free, with each calendar, is a small hole. You can hang it on a nail, or tie on a loop of string, and hang it like that if you prefer. It will work either way....




I have close-up pictures of pear blossoms, Iceland poppies, and my bowling lady from an old trophy, that I had installed on the hood of my 1979 Mercedes that we ran on biodiesel.






I included one picture of a huge sunflower and the deep summer sky, from  the row of sunflowers I grew along my front fence. And a picture I took of a wild strip of woodland hyacinth in a very ritzy neighborhood in the North End, posing with Mark's vintage bike.




I will probably make another calendar of just my sunflowers, and postcards and greeting cards of other pictures I have.....I have a lot of pictures. ;-)

There's homegrown tomatoes, and a tomato blossom.....  A lovely day in June...so rare.
14 pictures....each one, suitable for framing....and keeping track of the days of your life.
It goes by fast.