Metal junkyard cat
Snarky cat magnet
Tasha Tudor cat 1st edition
Stray Cats vintage Tshirt
Bobcat sweater handknit in glorious gold
Japanese cat
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
kitty cat....
Watercolor cat
Metal junkyard cat
Snarky cat magnet
Tasha Tudor cat 1st edition
Stray Cats vintage Tshirt
Bobcat sweater handknit in glorious gold
Japanese cat
Metal junkyard cat
Snarky cat magnet
Tasha Tudor cat 1st edition
Stray Cats vintage Tshirt
Bobcat sweater handknit in glorious gold
Japanese cat
Saturday, April 16, 2011
big plans, stupid ankle
Hardly anyone is more inspirational in my life than people who make something nice out of something that other people have thrown away. If it wasn't for things that people get rid of, I'd have to get a job pumping gas....Thanks! people. I pick the best stuff and keep it real...and, bingo.... I'm a Vintage Pusher. Vintage clothes, Vintage ladies, and Vintage flowers and vegetables for the garden.........so,
all set to put in the garden this sunny weekend, & I'm a laying around with a sprained ankle. Me, an ice bag, and computer for entertainment..
When I think, I'll never own my own home again (thanks to corrupt lawyers and evil republicans)...I go searching for inspiration.
*******Criteria*******
1. I am not impressed by people with money. It's Too easy to make life work if you can just pull out a wad of cash.
2. I'm real sick of tall skinny people, especially women.
3. I love gardening, and this year, I shall have a lovely yard, based mostly on annuals.
Here's the story of Tressa Prisbrey. She had a hard life, a real hard life, and after the age of 60, she finally got to own her own home. A trailer on a little plot of land,she made a junk paradise, and I hope I get the chance in a few years to own my own trailer, and make the world pretty....
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Models. Everything looks perfect on tall young girls. Big Deal.
Here's a few pics of women who are not tall, pretty, or young. They are, however, gorgeous.
from etsy seller ajohns16
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Annuals are easy. You plant them, they grow, they're pretty. Annuals, they usually are tough too. I bought 32 packages of seeds....over the next 2 weeks, and all of May, I'm planting....sunflowers,poppies,calendula,pink and purple radishes,purple, cream and red carrots, gourds, tall corn, indian corn, climbing beans, sweet peas, pink and white turnips, sweet peas, eating peas,lots of alyssum, pink cosmos, variegated nasturtium,bachelor buttons,onions,morning glory,striped zinnias, green zinnas, and white marigolds, moonflower, then tomatoes, potatoes, peppers,okra, tomatillos....and I'm probably forgetting quite a few.....
These gardens are mostly annuals....
2 gardens from.....
a sunflower garden from .........
all set to put in the garden this sunny weekend, & I'm a laying around with a sprained ankle. Me, an ice bag, and computer for entertainment..
When I think, I'll never own my own home again (thanks to corrupt lawyers and evil republicans)...I go searching for inspiration.
*******Criteria*******
1. I am not impressed by people with money. It's Too easy to make life work if you can just pull out a wad of cash.
2. I'm real sick of tall skinny people, especially women.
3. I love gardening, and this year, I shall have a lovely yard, based mostly on annuals.
Here's the story of Tressa Prisbrey. She had a hard life, a real hard life, and after the age of 60, she finally got to own her own home. A trailer on a little plot of land,she made a junk paradise, and I hope I get the chance in a few years to own my own trailer, and make the world pretty....
“Anyone can do anything with a million
dollars—look at Disney. But it takes more
than money to make something out of
nothing, and look at the fun I have doing it.”
dollars—look at Disney. But it takes more
than money to make something out of
nothing, and look at the fun I have doing it.”
— Tressa Prisbrey
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Models. Everything looks perfect on tall young girls. Big Deal.
Here's a few pics of women who are not tall, pretty, or young. They are, however, gorgeous.
from etsy seller ajohns16
from
from
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Annuals are easy. You plant them, they grow, they're pretty. Annuals, they usually are tough too. I bought 32 packages of seeds....over the next 2 weeks, and all of May, I'm planting....sunflowers,poppies,calendula,pink and purple radishes,purple, cream and red carrots, gourds, tall corn, indian corn, climbing beans, sweet peas, pink and white turnips, sweet peas, eating peas,lots of alyssum, pink cosmos, variegated nasturtium,bachelor buttons,onions,morning glory,striped zinnias, green zinnas, and white marigolds, moonflower, then tomatoes, potatoes, peppers,okra, tomatillos....and I'm probably forgetting quite a few.....
These gardens are mostly annuals....
2 gardens from.....
a sunflower garden from .........
It's vintage and it's retro....
vintage is that which is oh...at least 20 years older than today...preferably more than that...
retro is a design that looks like, and takes many design elements from another era....such as the proliferation of 50s style diners that popped up in the late 70s and all thru the 80s. All that pink, all that black, all that chrome, all those cateye glasses and motorcycle jackets....Copies of the original, and copies of the copies of the original.
This style of dress, very popular in the 1940s, was re-created in the 80s...the wide shoulders, wide collar, the tucks, the fitted waist with a dropped seam at the hip...and the peplum skirt which mostly falls from the waist as a ruffle....Often the dropped seam, is an influence from the 1920s, but in the 40s, the dresses became quite form-fitting...which is quite different from dresses in the 20s that were like wide tubes to hide the female form and make it appear fun, young and boy-like.
It has Gathers ...so it makes a bit of a fishtail...for lovely looks coming....and going
This original 40s rayon crepe dress has been used as an influence in zillions of 80s dress....Here's a few from around etsy and the blogosphere...
here's a vintage 80s does 40s black peplum dress L, storylandvintage
"This vintage number from the 80's calls upon earlier times with its peplum and cinched waist and classy style."
yes...the dropped waist detail is a feature of 1920s dresses. See...it's borrowed and influenced from designs from times past...
dropped waist hip seams ....
retro is a design that looks like, and takes many design elements from another era....such as the proliferation of 50s style diners that popped up in the late 70s and all thru the 80s. All that pink, all that black, all that chrome, all those cateye glasses and motorcycle jackets....Copies of the original, and copies of the copies of the original.
This style of dress, very popular in the 1940s, was re-created in the 80s...the wide shoulders, wide collar, the tucks, the fitted waist with a dropped seam at the hip...and the peplum skirt which mostly falls from the waist as a ruffle....Often the dropped seam, is an influence from the 1920s, but in the 40s, the dresses became quite form-fitting...which is quite different from dresses in the 20s that were like wide tubes to hide the female form and make it appear fun, young and boy-like.
Dramatic tucked 1940s Rayon crepe black vintage dress in my etsy shop now....
Yes, a dramatic tucked 1940s rayon crepe black vintage dress with deep tucked pleats on the bodice, deep tucked pleats on the skirt, this is a classic 1940s crepe dress....the fabric we love!Simple yet so effective, ....I love the back!
It has Gathers ...so it makes a bit of a fishtail...for lovely looks coming....and going
This original 40s rayon crepe dress has been used as an influence in zillions of 80s dress....Here's a few from around etsy and the blogosphere...
here's a vintage 80s does 40s black peplum dress L, storylandvintage
"This vintage number from the 80's calls upon earlier times with its peplum and cinched waist and classy style."
Black Drop Waist Rosette Dress from BeckyDrolen
"This is a lovely vintage 80s does the 20s flapper style drop waist dress with beautiful large rosette fabric details at the waist."yes...the dropped waist detail is a feature of 1920s dresses. See...it's borrowed and influenced from designs from times past...
Casadei Gilded Black Fishtail Dress from apocalypsevintage
"Cap sleeves, pencil skirt, and a devastatingly scandalous plunging V back. Fabulous ruffle fishtail in back!"
That fishtail is a charmer!
1920s dresses.....
dropped waist hip seams ....
Art Deco Glamour Risqué Erotic French Print from seller thetinbox
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Cowgirls wouldn't get the Blues if they had these.....
50s inlay cowboy boots.....vintage Acme, with...cloth pulls....
It can all be put into a pretty weird picture by Gus Van Sant...whom I will tap to make a film for me*
slightly on the edge of the jumping off place of cowboy/cowgirl....the girl with the big thumbs....
because it happens mostly in the West...I suppose it can qualify for cowboy-ness...these boots are all Cowboy...a fancy dandy cowboy.....but really is there any other kind? Even in dusty Levis...still....
how much do I adore the cowboy style...All of it !! West coast girl that I am...I went to a party last night...What did she wear?
Levis. Cowboy boots. leather jacket. Laurel Burch earrings and a skeleton key necklace...there were also some stripes involved, and a poppy print vintage silk scarf....
The vintage inlay boots...
of Brown leather....orange and gold feather stitching around the cream and gold inlay designs....short heel with rubber...and leather soles...pegged and stitched...
175.00
not listed yet....but they will be...
*if I live that long........
Monday, April 11, 2011
It's Cool.....or Hot.....
Coool.....pastels....lights...brights....lace....flowers......sailors....and blue sky....prom....patio party....Sunny sunshine...........new stuff in the shop...
Nautical sailor dress.......and a Misty Harbor pea coat...in washable white duck........
Shade the eyes!
Cool and pretty underwear....Where? There!
And Hot! hot colors...hot cha cha!!
60s Mod orange leather jacket...
Orange and pink Hibiscus....
Bright Bright Blue ruffles...and strapless.......
Lilly Pulitzer is all about fun in the Florida sun!
a lovely Bright blue and white floral sundress...Hawaiian style.....
Nautical sailor dress.......and a Misty Harbor pea coat...in washable white duck........
Shade the eyes!
Cool and pretty underwear....Where? There!
And Hot! hot colors...hot cha cha!!
60s Mod orange leather jacket...
Orange and pink Hibiscus....
Bright Bright Blue ruffles...and strapless.......
Lilly Pulitzer is all about fun in the Florida sun!
a lovely Bright blue and white floral sundress...Hawaiian style.....
Saturday, April 9, 2011
5 days without ....
hanging out on Facehole...or writing a blog...Well here's what I've been doing....
organizing for Spring! yes, finally...some sun...some rain...and I made some jewelry ...
Oh and I took about 200 hundred pictures of new stuff to be listed...some have already sold before I even got a chance to blog it or facehole it!
dang people...
;-)
Soon, it will be Mother's Day....and people will marry....and then of course, the Sunny days will make you all high...and you'll say, "Gee, I need some nice and nifty new things....I feel Good!!"
A beauty...of white pearl charms, white satin ribbon...Romance and hearts...a brass ball locket, a cloisonne heart in deep blue.....since love should be deep or why bother?
lots of little pearly and brass and goldtone charms....and of course....a Vintage key...I attached the strand of charms to the pearls using an A and a B Art Deco letters.....
It can also be worn as a choker...
I made a romantic pin...sweet and old-fashioned. All vintage pieces....a goldtone bow pin with a pearly chain drop with an I Love You heart vintage brass locket.....awwwww....
organizing for Spring! yes, finally...some sun...some rain...and I made some jewelry ...
Oh and I took about 200 hundred pictures of new stuff to be listed...some have already sold before I even got a chance to blog it or facehole it!
dang people...
;-)
Soon, it will be Mother's Day....and people will marry....and then of course, the Sunny days will make you all high...and you'll say, "Gee, I need some nice and nifty new things....I feel Good!!"
A beauty...of white pearl charms, white satin ribbon...Romance and hearts...a brass ball locket, a cloisonne heart in deep blue.....since love should be deep or why bother?
lots of little pearly and brass and goldtone charms....and of course....a Vintage key...I attached the strand of charms to the pearls using an A and a B Art Deco letters.....
It can also be worn as a choker...
I made a romantic pin...sweet and old-fashioned. All vintage pieces....a goldtone bow pin with a pearly chain drop with an I Love You heart vintage brass locket.....awwwww....
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Vintage Volvo, Vintage Men, Vintage Levi's
It's classic, it's rustic, it's mid-century, it's fancy junk.
And right now...it's Modern Vintage.
funkomavintage is in shades of red farmhouse patina, golden suede, honey yellow, plaid cotton flannel, desert sunset, indigo blue, summer seashore...and always...old faded Levi's.
A vintage Red plaid 30s 40s Hunting Coat looks great sitting on the back seat of a '65 Volvo, or on you.
60s mustard gold trucker Suede jacket looks ready to go to work...in a red and blue cotton flannel plaid shirt...like this....
Sears Work Clothing flannel red plaid vintage shirt
hey look....here's the classic trucker jacket! it's a 70s Levi's denim jacket.
Or maybe, you'd prefer a little native flavor, a little Southwestern style with your vintage gold Volvo.
a Vintage deerskin leather frontier style shirt...
Gant Indian blanket cotton button down vintage shirt will do it just fine.
So, maybe a vintage Volvo 144 sedan isn't for you. Maybe you prefer the curvy lines of a vintage Volvo 1963 PV544, in fading summer sky blue.
Well, if that's true....you are definitely a blue denim Levi's Redline jeans guy.
flip the cuffs up...
70s Redline indigo Levi 501 jeans
but don't forget about a pair of 70s 517 indigo blue Boot cut Levi's jeans.....these are the most awesome Levi's worn with cowboy boots....
Cowboy? Western? oh yes. Southwest sunset cotton stripes vintage shirt
And right now...it's Modern Vintage.
funkomavintage is in shades of red farmhouse patina, golden suede, honey yellow, plaid cotton flannel, desert sunset, indigo blue, summer seashore...and always...old faded Levi's.
A vintage Red plaid 30s 40s Hunting Coat looks great sitting on the back seat of a '65 Volvo, or on you.
60s mustard gold trucker Suede jacket looks ready to go to work...in a red and blue cotton flannel plaid shirt...like this....
Sears Work Clothing flannel red plaid vintage shirt
hey look....here's the classic trucker jacket! it's a 70s Levi's denim jacket.
Or maybe, you'd prefer a little native flavor, a little Southwestern style with your vintage gold Volvo.
a Vintage deerskin leather frontier style shirt...
Gant Indian blanket cotton button down vintage shirt will do it just fine.
So, maybe a vintage Volvo 144 sedan isn't for you. Maybe you prefer the curvy lines of a vintage Volvo 1963 PV544, in fading summer sky blue.
Well, if that's true....you are definitely a blue denim Levi's Redline jeans guy.
flip the cuffs up...
70s Redline indigo Levi 501 jeans
but don't forget about a pair of 70s 517 indigo blue Boot cut Levi's jeans.....these are the most awesome Levi's worn with cowboy boots....
Cowboy? Western? oh yes. Southwest sunset cotton stripes vintage shirt
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