Here There Everywhere....

on ebay.......

60s Mod


50s Catalina swim suit





70s Koi Shaheen dress





50s Full Skirt Party Day dress

Oh man am I busy...Gobs of new stuff coming ...

to the new shop downtown.....
I have several vintage men's western shirts and T shirts...
Men's vintage is hard to find since men tend to wear their clothes till they fall apart !
But I grab it when I find it hidden in people's closets. I love to see the glint in the eyes of guys when they spy the racks of Man Stuff...sunglasses, vintage vinyl, stereo and music equipment...

And the ladies.....well, I have several tons of that ! I will be buying more designer fashion, both recent and vintage....
Next on ebay will be a 60s sculptural white Shannon Rodgers for Jerry Silverman dress, a 50s NOS black Catalina boy leg swimsuit...a Liberty Tana print blouse...

the small rack of kids vintage is up.....and, more to come !

I'll add pictures soon.....I moving my manni and Monday will be test picture day....new space, new lighting and much to learn.....I'm really happy to have a white painted brick background. So urban...

Favorite Day ....Mark And Tressie's 11th Wedding Anniversary..

Yes. Happy. Together. Married in San Francisco June 13, 1997.
Friday the 13th.....
paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th) clearly, Not us.....

After a simple ceremony at City Hall, our honeymoon began in The Castro after eating a fantabulous dinner and drinking much champagne at Stars. This, sadly , or not so sadly, became our song.....Why? because I swear, every bar in the Castro had MTV playing on their TV....and this song was playing in every bar every time we walked in!!!
Mark said: "Those girls are so cute!" Jokes on him. We found out when we got back home.....those girls are brothers!!! It's HANSON....I still have no clue what they are saying, but for MmmmBop....

So enjoy a little Mmmm Bop...... the original video we were entranced by......

in this later video.....you can hear their voices are already changing.......


US !!!




Graduation day June 12, 2005

Lights Camera......Action....

What a yummy day it was ! the vintage shops in Tacoma were open, people were walking downtown from their offices, their condos and busing and driving in .......
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Planted the box outside with pretty purple alyssum, petunias, salvia and nasturtiums...lychnis and a buddleia that simply frightened Dino since he is not a fan of Butterfly Bush.....Yes, true, they can be rangy and weedy.....oh, but don't you love the honey scented purple candles in midsummer...the butterflies do.....I will sit for hours this summer at Rampart.....and watch the urban butterflies and bees give a show of thanks for the buddleia........
and of course, you probably have many near you if you live or work downtown...they grow in the gutters at the Luzon....just to name one urban garden location....
Purple and Chartreuse paint for the outside is on the June agenda...



Tropical delight....


Lights...


Dress Up



Converse among your selves....

Nostalgic for a Farmer's Market...and downtown..

gooooodness.....I used to sell at the Gig Harbor Farmers Mkt back in the early 90s. I had a farm in Lakebay...an organic farm. I grew (from seed or cutting) 100's of heirloom fruits and vegetables, and billions of herbs, flowers and shrubs. I had to force Mortgage Lifter and Mr. Stripey on people ! Here take this one...and come back in August and tell me if you liked it !!!
Well, they did come back and they loved it...and the next spring I had people knocking on my door asking when the old tomatoes would be ready........


It was great fun and loads of work to produce produce ....the kind of garden bounty I grew up eating since my folks and my foster-folks were tremendous gardeners.
Everything I Knew About Gardening I Learned From My Elders.
I never sold at the Tacoma Mkt.....I wrote about it plenty, and shopped it all these years....(and the Dome district one last summer), and I'm really happy it's Thursday......
Yippee!!! I'm planting the bedraggled box in front of Rampart today.....
in honor of urban organic mini-farming......
Amocat will be open mostly, tho the big Grand Opening is later this month....
funkoma vintage is open (mostly). I have about 1/3 of what goes in, of my stock, with price tags all set up so far. (More pictures later today....)
Food, Friends, music, booze, merry-making....all the best things of life.......

In the beginning...there was a Building

now it's the home of a few vintage shops in Tacoma...

in Downtown Funkytown.......Tacoma 2 you...
it was a Chevrolet dealership built in 1911....
I think...it's real old...

Amocat Antique Market...
712 Broadway.....Antique Row...Theater District...
daily ....noon - 7 (ish) or whenever
the new home of funkoma vintage....
....But here is where it begins...
We'll paint the outside, plant flowers...
Walk in ...if the roll up door is up...Met Tacoma Urbanist...a law nerd...like me...Hi Erik...Lots of folks have been dropping by....Our soft opening will be Friday the 13th.....

Lots of white....




Here is where funkoma will be...


so empty !


I love the ceilings....39 feet tall or something...

Stupid Men clothes....What you won't find at funkoma in Tacoma

Stupid Clothes.....not stupid men.....(remember...I'm not a feminist)
From Susie Bubble.....Comes this post about Paris design students........and their fashion show....This stuff is fine if you going into stage design or circus fun....but really now, no sane person is gonna dress like this.......I'm not a big fan of DockersPoloBaseballHatNikes.....booooring.....and so unnecessary....but I applaud the creativity.....but uh, as fashion.....it's just dumb.




"....the whole jury including Mr Gaultier were highly impressed with the work they saw. Et moi? With such a selective class, I do feel this five year course at La Cambre hones the students in a way that is very unique in comparison to other schools and the resulting work is indicative with the thought processes behind it being quite highly evolved." This is Ann Bruggeman//'Mine' -


I stole these pics from Susie Bubble...who was a big fan of indiecult on ebay until indiecult disappeared one day....taking her uh, style with her.......