"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, huffy, Imports from old blogs, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness on Jun 13th, 2005
I’m going to reclaim my old Huffy from my parents’ house sometime this summer and turn it into an art-bike. What my idea is, is to strip it down and paint it metallic green. I wanna cover the seat in green faux snakeskin, and put eyes (possibly clear blinky lights with “googly eyes” glued in […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Imports from old blogs, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness on Mar 16th, 2005
So, I suddenly came down with a cold. Basically, Monday afternoon, around 3:00, I started feeling kinda raggedy. Stayed home sick today (Tuesday) and all indications are that I’ll be home sick tomorrow, considering that I can’t sleep and have been coughing so hard I almost puked. Anyway, on to brighter things. Thanks to the […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Imports from old blogs on Feb 20th, 2005
So, I wrote up a full-sized entry on my lunch break at work on Friday, then forgot to e-mail it to myself, so it languishes on my work computer. Therefore, here’s some stuff I made yesterday. Here’s an old necklace of my mom’s. Note how the leather cord is broken? One of my thrice-damned cats […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Imports from old blogs, Sewing on May 31st, 2004
My new skirt, second in the “What to do with 1yd of 60″ machine embroidered cotton pique” series. I felt my wardrobe would be enhanced by the addition of a skirt bedizened (verily, bedizened) with cartoonish, mercerized depictions of fruit. I actually have quite a few tops that will go well with this skirt, whimsical […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Imports from old blogs, Sewing on May 27th, 2004
Throwaway entry, but I made a new shirt over the course of the last couple of days, and I am really happy with how it turned out: And here’s a closeup of that trim piece: The little bow and dangly button-cherry arrangement came about because I accidentally nicked the fabric when I was clipping the […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Imports from old blogs on Dec 13th, 2003
‘Lo, Gerald. Hey, Doug. What’s the news? I just got back in with Jordan Halleberg’s old Ford. I think she’s taken her last run. That ol’ heap of shit finally gave up the ghost? Naw…not willingly. Halleberg let the Kreske kid borrow it to haul a couple loads of lumber and it looks like the […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Imports from old blogs on Dec 13th, 2003
I don’t suppose you know anyone who’s looking for a dog, do you? Hmm, not that I can think of. Who’s got the extra dog? Well, you know that beagle dog that Lisa had adopted? Well, she turned out to be pregnant, and so Lisa’s going to be dealing with pups pretty soon. Good thing […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Imports from old blogs on Dec 13th, 2003
Hello Ruth, it’s so good to see you! Oh, it’s been a while! How’s that new grandbaby of yours? Oh, he’s just as fat as a woodchuck, keepin’ his mommy busy. He’s figured out how to roll over and over and over to get to things. No, he hasn’t started to crawl, he just rolls […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Car Drama and trauma, Imports from old blogs, Shopping on Sep 20th, 2002
Thrifting simply didn’t happen today. This morning between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. I proved my utter inability to find North Oak Trfwy. with both hands and a roadmap. Yes, folks, I drove around buttfuck N. Kansas City for TWO stinking hours, looking for what is probably the largest and most significant commercial street in that […]