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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Vintage Clothes, Tiki, Bikes,Albums.....June 1st ...June 1st.....
Mmmm, Marimekko, Ralph Lauren, 30s and 40s and 50s vintage....
Chairs and stuff.....More vintage clothes...albums will go back here...
Part of the front.....Lots of stuff to come in and more work before opening day!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Old School Tacoma....Yes Vintage Tacoma....
How can you love Tacoma without being sad about her bad facelifts?
Yes She was already a lovely old girl with an unpretentious spunk......
Click the link to see the fantabulous efforts of
Tacoma Then and Now
if funkoma had extra hours in the day, we would do this also...
on a very consistent basis.....
and now, that she has been forced into capitalist servitude.......
WELL, you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her change....
funkoma vintage.....Keeping the faith.....eating at the dives...
singing bad karoke all over town....
and keeping the best places secret...and all to ourselves!
Yes She was already a lovely old girl with an unpretentious spunk......
Click the link to see the fantabulous efforts of
Tacoma Then and Now
if funkoma had extra hours in the day, we would do this also...
on a very consistent basis.....
and now, that she has been forced into capitalist servitude.......
WELL, you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her change....
funkoma vintage.....Keeping the faith.....eating at the dives...
singing bad karoke all over town....
and keeping the best places secret...and all to ourselves!
Born In The USA...Kids Clothes...
I crochet, design, create and sew....a lot...I design clothes and cute stuff for your home....darn near anything except formal wear.
(I have a short attention span)
That's me in the links on the right...eBetty DIY....
So...I loved the Mini-EyeCandy...for kids clothes...I have made thousands of kids things....since I have 3 kids and 4 grands!
Cookie Magazine has a fab article on kid's clothes Made In The USA !
(I have a short attention span)
That's me in the links on the right...eBetty DIY....
So...I loved the Mini-EyeCandy...for kids clothes...I have made thousands of kids things....since I have 3 kids and 4 grands!
Cookie Magazine has a fab article on kid's clothes Made In The USA !
Monday, May 21, 2007
More Art Walk and Tacoma.....
Ahh yes, The Elks Club...No. 164 dates from 1916...
Everyone loves it.....some want to decorate it...
some have even
proposed fixing the old girl up
and selling beer
I vote for nothing less than a full bar.......
Williams and Dame had a hand in Portland's Pearl District...
I've been there...strangely, I liked it .....a lot...
because it had what makes a downtown/urban area inviting....Human scale store fronts, neccesary services and lots of fun things to do...
mini-parks, water features, respect for familiar old buildings and a minimum of confusing modern architecture......
From the Broadway side, a righteous doorway, and along the side.....
Below is a pic of the building from the front side.....from the City of Tacoma's Filthy 15......Tacoma is soooo stupid....more on that later......
along the southeast side are The Spanish Steps,
both lovelies are on the
National Historic Register....
and built by Architect Edward Frere Champney
in the classic Second Revival design. The steps lead down to Commerce Street and Tacoma's Link train....why is that important to me?? (See me standing there in the dark like a college-educated hooker?)
Because.....you can take the FREE Link Train from The Elks Club/Spanish Steps to the other end of downtown Tacoma, just a block from the funkoma vintage shop...and back again...How cool is That???
just nod approvingly......
The real ones in Rome
...
Everyone loves it.....some want to decorate it...
some have even
proposed fixing the old girl up
and selling beer
I vote for nothing less than a full bar.......
Williams and Dame had a hand in Portland's Pearl District...
I've been there...strangely, I liked it .....a lot...
because it had what makes a downtown/urban area inviting....Human scale store fronts, neccesary services and lots of fun things to do...
mini-parks, water features, respect for familiar old buildings and a minimum of confusing modern architecture......
From the Broadway side, a righteous doorway, and along the side.....
Below is a pic of the building from the front side.....from the City of Tacoma's Filthy 15......Tacoma is soooo stupid....more on that later......
along the southeast side are The Spanish Steps,
both lovelies are on the
National Historic Register....
and built by Architect Edward Frere Champney
in the classic Second Revival design. The steps lead down to Commerce Street and Tacoma's Link train....why is that important to me?? (See me standing there in the dark like a college-educated hooker?)
Because.....you can take the FREE Link Train from The Elks Club/Spanish Steps to the other end of downtown Tacoma, just a block from the funkoma vintage shop...and back again...How cool is That???
just nod approvingly......
The real ones in Rome
...
Sunday, May 20, 2007
BioDiesel in Tacoma
Back in mid 2003 we first bought a Mercedes diesel car.....After Mark took classes to learn the chemistry and then made biodiesel, well, we had to find a car!
I'll post pics later....
(this is a similar car in Memphis)
It was a 1979 brown Mercedes 300TD and the symbol on the hood was in the glove box....so we replaced the missing trinket with Bowling Lady.....our mascot that we twisted off an old trophy and attached to the hood...this became my car after Mark bought a yellow 1980 Mercedes wagon ...the kind of car
John Lennon drove....Mercedes that is.....
Everyone thought we were goofy...and we are........
Biodiesel? What's that?
Folks pretty well know we'll drive a beater till we kill it and then move on...because our old cars go the same places as new cars...it's amazing, I tell ya!....
Example: Had a lovely dinner last night at Harbor Lites with my sweet inlaws, and parked the Volvo wagon between a new Lexus and a new BMW.....
Biodiesel....at first we had to drive up to Seattle to get biodiesel at Dr. Dan's in Ballard.
Mark and I were interns for Take Back Your Time Day....and we would drive up for the organizing meetings and encourage people to Smell Our Tailpipe! Hey, it smelled like French Fries.....
When I was taking law classes in 2004 through 2006, I had the same car as a nice lady who well, came from the right side of the tracks ....if you know what I mean....she carried a
Dooney and Bourke bag, and so did I!
Sadly, the transmission launched....and we sold it to a fellow up near Bellingham.....which is only slightly more
Hippie than Olympia.....
We Went to School in Olympia...yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.....
Biodiesel!!
It's almost mainstream now.....with redneck farmers and that ol' environmentalist George W. Bush allocating money to manufacture it.....and now in Seattle and all over the Puget Sound are truck stops and a few gas stations carry it.....but back in the Wild West Days....Mark and I were pretty much on our own......
Now of course, everywhere we look, folks are copying us....(as if)...and driving old diesel cars exhausting French Fry aroma!
So, are we really so weird? I mean, we have something in common with farmers w/ rednecks and Bush....
Who woulda guessed?
Well, me, for one......I know that we are far more alike than different...really..
I'll post pics later....
(this is a similar car in Memphis)
It was a 1979 brown Mercedes 300TD and the symbol on the hood was in the glove box....so we replaced the missing trinket with Bowling Lady.....our mascot that we twisted off an old trophy and attached to the hood...this became my car after Mark bought a yellow 1980 Mercedes wagon ...the kind of car
John Lennon drove....Mercedes that is.....Everyone thought we were goofy...and we are........
Biodiesel? What's that?
Folks pretty well know we'll drive a beater till we kill it and then move on...because our old cars go the same places as new cars...it's amazing, I tell ya!....
Example: Had a lovely dinner last night at Harbor Lites with my sweet inlaws, and parked the Volvo wagon between a new Lexus and a new BMW.....
Biodiesel....at first we had to drive up to Seattle to get biodiesel at Dr. Dan's in Ballard.
Mark and I were interns for Take Back Your Time Day....and we would drive up for the organizing meetings and encourage people to Smell Our Tailpipe! Hey, it smelled like French Fries.....
When I was taking law classes in 2004 through 2006, I had the same car as a nice lady who well, came from the right side of the tracks ....if you know what I mean....she carried a
Dooney and Bourke bag, and so did I!
Sadly, the transmission launched....and we sold it to a fellow up near Bellingham.....which is only slightly more
Hippie than Olympia.....
We Went to School in Olympia...yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.....
Biodiesel!!
It's almost mainstream now.....with redneck farmers and that ol' environmentalist George W. Bush allocating money to manufacture it.....and now in Seattle and all over the Puget Sound are truck stops and a few gas stations carry it.....but back in the Wild West Days....Mark and I were pretty much on our own......
Now of course, everywhere we look, folks are copying us....(as if)...and driving old diesel cars exhausting French Fry aroma!
So, are we really so weird? I mean, we have something in common with farmers w/ rednecks and Bush....
Who woulda guessed?
Well, me, for one......I know that we are far more alike than different...really..
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Good Karma...Buy Vintage...Bad Sarah Jessica Parker
Well, Sarah Jessica Parker has a new fashion line! Yippee....It's called Bitten...and I hope it comes back to bite her in the butt....Why???
Because the only possible way to produce new clothing to sell for under 19.99 per item is to use sweatshops around the globe.
And...Right There...is another reason to buy vintage clothes.....Many items were made in Union shops where workers had a way to organize for fair wages and safety....remember Norma Rae?
When you buy something already made you are not exploiting a new worker...and you're saving energy and materials today...
We can't change the past.....but we can change the future!
Want to know what you can do and get some more information? Yes!
Below is a small example of well-known companies that use underpaid and exploited labor around the world...Here is where America's labor union factory jobs went:
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=24
Labor
In April 2001, Nicaraguan court ordered Chentex, a Taiwanese-owned maquila that was making jeans for Kohl's, J.C. Penney, Kmart, and Wal-Mart to rehire nine illegally fired union leaders. Chentex had been targeted by the National Labor Committee for its union-busting activity, while workers earned just 18 cents for each $24 pair of pants they sewed.
-- U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project
Source URL: www.usleap.org/Maquilas/PastMaquilaCampaigns.html#nica
Go here for more information:
coopamerica
corporation information
how Chinese sweatshops skirt the law
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