Vintage Happy New Year!

Happy New Year  All!  WOW 2012.  Hopefully we figure some things out, accomplish a lot, and above all remember to enjoy one another.

Vintage OKeefe & Merrit Stove

I just found this pic of a 1953 ( I believe ) O Keefe & Merrit Stove.  I have one just like it, I have hopefully just managed to save up enough to get it refurbished.  The guy from Pacific Stove works was telling me that a lady from Montecito  bought a Wolfe stove ten years ago.  The stove needs a thermostat, Wolfe
doesn't make one and there are no alternatives that he knows of for it.  So basically this" top of the line" very, very expensive stove is trash in ten years!  That's some expensive scrap metal.  My stove resided in my kitchen for a few years.  I moved out for a while and my ex husband's friend rented the house, he was at the time the executive chef at Austen's @ The Pierpont.  Although the oven didn't work and it badly needed repair, he told me that it was the best rangetop he had ever cooked on, because the action for the burners was so sensitive that it allowed for perfect temperature control.  Like my 57 Belair, I figure it if I put some money into it and take care of it, it will be around for another 100 years and be worth more than I payed for it in the first place.  Sounds like good economics to me, and meanwhile I get to cook on a stove that's so hot I wish it had a spin cycle!

Vintage Kitchen- Check Out this site

http://bigchill.com/site/fridges/kitchen-photos

Pin up Christmas Happy Hollidays

I can't wait to refurbish my vintage trailer!

This cute little trailer is similar to the 1954 Aljoa that I hauled out of my Mom's 90 year old neighbors yard for $100 bucks.  I offered him more, he didn't believe it was worth it.  I can't wait to fix it up.

Links for you Rockabilly & Psychobilly Music

Jerry Lee Lewis Pandora Radio Station
http://www.pandora.com/?_sl=1&shareImp=true#!/stations/play/39817398437721

The Cramps Pandora Radio Station
http://www.pandora.com/?_sl=1&shareImp=true#!/stations/play/3982184544685974

Keep in mind they occasionally need grooming!

Rockabilly Boys

Viva La Rockabilly Boys - Need I say more?

Psychobilly Koffin Kats & Inazuma

  Usually if I ask for the night off to go to a car show or see a band, something always falls through.   I requested the night off in September to see The psychobilly legends, The Koffin Kats.  I got sweat on elbowed in the face, sexually molested and stepped on, but don't feel bad for me, I push back.  It was a blast!  Thank you Koffin Kats, for the bruises and the further loss of my hearing.  I also must thank Inazuma, they are a Japanese band from L.A.  They were totally crazed, they loved the "lock and loll" fucking epic!  I am still healing.  I got called "so fucking OLD," by my boyfriend's friend.  Yes I realize that a mosh pit is supposed to be beneath a 35 year old mother, but I "tried" to stay out of it. Anyway  I really needed that emotional outlet.   Aaahhh, now I can go back to teaching art to kindergartners,  serving food to rich people, patiently helping my kid's with homework, and making Waldorf dolls.  When one of my little students asks, "miss Robin, what's that on your arm," I just smile and change the subject.

Rockabilly Dia De Los Muertos Skeletons

  I finished my Day Of The Dead figurines,  I decided she needed a boyfriend.  Can't you feel the love.

Check out this site "Alice in Wonderland" very Victorian Goth

http://www.etsy.com/listing/75868551/alice-in-wonderland-art-from-the-black

Dia De Los Muertos (Day Of The Dead) Figurines

I Created these little Dia De Los Muertos sculptures, they aren't finished yet, I'll post the finished product soon.

 1.  Create an armature of flexible wire, I like to use a 22 gauge floral wire, found at the craft store where they sell floral foam and fun little birds and stuff.  I payed $1.79 for a ton of it.

2.  Cover the wire in sculpey, a common oven bake clay found at the craft store, sculpt and bake as directed.  I used a skull bead for the head, but you can sculpt one as well.

3.  Paint the body black with two coats of craft store acrylic paint, then paint the bones on over the black.

4.  Hot glue the head on the wire neck. I sculpted the hair separately and glued on after baking.

5.  Don't worry if it looks amateur, the traditional ones always do.  In fact my daughter made one that looks just as cool as mine.  It's fun to add extra details to give them special character. I made mine with my hairstyle and a rose in her hair, have fun!

6.  More to come soon.

I love my gritty fence, I love my gritty car!

Check out this site

  I just came across this site while looking for another, love it!
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/owl-and-sugar-day-of-the-dead-pristine-cartera-turkus.html

I can't tell if I'm having a bad day

  I was sitting at my desk pouting because i got really sick and I missed all the Dia De Los Muertos festivals, also a week of serving shifts.  It occurred to me that I could make a super cool little skeleton with a turquoise skull head.  Just as I pulled out the wire and began to get excited, the phone rang, my boyfriend was on his way to pay a bill when he ran out of gas(the gauge is busted), so I hurried off to fill the gas can and rescue him.  On my way home, car sick from huffing gas fumes and sick from well, being sick,  I pass a guy in an old 61straightbed apache, stuck in the intersection.  I flipped a u and parked and ran out in the road, "you need help pushing her,"  It wasn't a question, usually men will say no they got it if you are a girl, so I just kind of dove in.  I'm all sick and feeling shitty and heaving this rusty beast.  He seamed tripped out, maybe because he just got rescued by a girl and people were honking and yelling, some guy even flipped us off and screamed get that shit outa the road.  I patted the beast, as if to say I know old girl, don't listen to him "is she a 60, or a 61?"  "60 he said, I love your 57, what motor does she have?"  "The 283"  "Cool, you know your shit," he said.  "A little," I say.  "thank you man, sorry you got all dirty."  "It's ok I just got gas all over me a minute ago helping my boyfriend, he has a stepside.  We have to keep the beaters on the road right"  "Yes we do," he says, he gets his girl going and we head our separate ways.  Yes we do need to keep the classic rusty beaters alive, sometimes they need a push.  I hope I get re inspired to make my skeleton, I feel shitty, on the upside I just got a heater, so I'm not cold anymore. 

Halloween is my favorite holiday.  I love having the excuse to dress up as elaborately as possible, when else can you go to work painted green!  Every year I make my own costume, this year I was miss Argentina from Beetlejuice, I type this with two fingers still stained green with the added anticipation of tomorrow being Dia De Los Muertos, which I flaunt year round.  I teach a kindergarten class, afterward I went skipping through the halls passing out turquoise skull beads, my favorite jewelry staple.  I can't frickin wait!!!

This is my first blog post ever!!!

Hello world,
I'm rubbing my chin with nervous, excited apprehension.  I now have an outlet, one I can use to spew forth my creativity, thoughts, CRAFTS!!! MWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!  Prepare yourselves to be inspired, shocked even, and to absorb lots of bad grammar.  You will forgive me though, because I promise to make it up to you.  I am typing this with 2 fingers btw.  It is my aim to expose you to the never ending flow of ideas, I just can't make it stop.  Please don't take any of it too seriously, after all its just a blog.