face it

the angel of dark gets her porcelain face FInALLY!

Bird man starpants

Welll bird man starpants is finally really coming to life...I spent Saturday on him...I am hoping to make his birds today!

dark angel comes to life

This weekend i was moving some stuff into the basement and a match to this newel post unearthed itsself as i shifted and reorganized. So now i have a light for my dark.

The angel of dark has armour made from tin from a building being rehabbed across the street. The forties fence that I made into her skirt was also headed to the dumpster. A weigh station on the way to garbage mountain.
Luckily a new shop has opened a couple of doors downand he spedcializes in bikes, skateboards and rollerderby...He had a bike chain key so I could finally give her arms to her. Her belts are also bike chain that was on the big bridge in TRoy.

I am still working on the surface of the dark angel, but her base was on the back of a 1920's table I picked up last thursday...pre drilled old growth pine....

A house gets its legs

I am currently sort of accepting the fact that it appears as though I am meant to be an ambassador of garbage. Not the stinky, half rotten kind...ewww. but the still interesting cast offs that have haunted me throughout my life. As a kid it was my household chore to take care of the garbage...I couldnt bear to throw away the laundry soap boxes, so they accumulated under the bed until my Mother threw them away...."BUT they'll be worth moneeeeee some day i wailed"

I grew up in a time before garbage pick up in the then rural area we lived in so there was a weekly dump run...What a chore my stepfather thought, and he volcolized his displeasure at the very primative and much beneath his current station in life and all...What I remember is ,
dressers, shoes, rusty metal and most of all a house. The man who ran the dump had built himself a house. As I look back i can see that amazing house. An Artists house. A handmade house. HAnd made and entirely cast off materials.

On the flip side of my life, my father lived in NYC all of my life . There is a steady stream of recycling in big cities that has alays left me a bit awestruck...'You found THAT on the street"??? I was there also, during the garbage crisis in 1975 and the one in 1981. check these pictures out..http://www.buzzfeed.com/whatamess/the-worst-garbage-strikes-jdf

It has been a hobby of mine to visit landfills everywhere i live and vistit for any length of time...I have been to dumps in NY, Georgia, North and South carolina, California, Texas, Florida...well you get the idea.


SOOOOO....now that i have the shop with its equally lovely basement i am able to be a shelter for these things that were headed to a landfill. Garbage mountains...ugh
All of that aside...these 'legs' showed up from Anee..a kindered spirit I guess...She gathered these bent wood pieces up and saved them from the Garbage Mountain. It took like eighteen tries to get them right on this hous ...but aaaaaaaah

The Gingerbread trim was rescued on big garbage day this year, as were the antique nails that i set it with...like little studly soldiers all in a row. Very butch for gingerbread dont you think?


it is sturdy...well it lists a little.


















Loving the antique wall papers.
okokok back to workie!

something fancy

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dunno

tough guardian

new work

Hiya lovies! So I get like five free hours in a day to work....This angels has used up sixty hours so far.
The wings are scavanged ceiling tin...I have cut each feather , hand sanded each feather and attached each feather. The rivits are hand made and the outer skirt is some really pretty to me 1940s fencing that was in a building across the street. the galvanized for the under armor came from the same building....


There were lovely colors of paint on this tin. And the metal underneath was a pretty blue and rust under it all.
The front of the angel is more monochromatic...and the ceiling side of the tin sanded up so GGGGREAT!
She is still in progress....



maybe I'll finish today....

old doors

Gladys and I just made this....gasp, could it be??
a use for old doors?
great old door
on wheels
how cool is that?

Orange office chairs

These three sweeties started lif as Davies office chairs. They were seventies rustic orange. Other wise known as baby shit browns where i come from.
Imagine my suprise big garbage day when i lifted them and they were light as a feather....
Ahhh aluminum!
So as not to appear cliche' I did NOT strip them and make them all silver....
Instead



A deep subltly metallic oil rubbed bronze as the all over color....
and every turn and curve highlighted by scraping off the paint and sanding to a bright silver sheen. I love love these...
wish i had a before picture...

working in porcelain too

Since kiddo has gone to the Kinder Garden, I have more time to work...

Some new porcelain top hat guys....













Why does this remind me of my grandmother?

new work

A new idea for found on the junk super highway gloves, ceiling tin, antique nails (thanks Thomas!) and antique leftovers from the big table project.


This hangs on your wall and it holds your keys, cell phone, post its...whatever...
This one is gone already, but keep your eyes peeled for more...

sewing 101

The lovely and adorable Glad learned to sew! She upcycled this nifty pillow....there are two more stars on the back...

more done-er studio

Weeelllll....It took me three full days to paint, repair and otherwise Robilize these mirrors to their current condition....Next comes a low modern piece of furniture against the low part of the wall...well- sixties, scavanged and totally lovely! ( did i mention heavy )??...ugh more moving....ppppfffffbbblllttt!

crafty creatures!

Crafters Unite! The first class was fun...everyone upcycled something from their closets...



Super hero Claire!
Mary started out making a pillow...ended up with a purse!