The Moldy Doily

another bad idea

Woke up today with the best of intentions to be productive. Last night I was motivated to make things and get busy. I also spied a cool estate sale up the street listed on Craiglist. It boasted 80 years of ESTATE sale items, including: lots of vintage, watches, Lovely Victorian Ladies Needlework and/or Crochet Handbags,Victorian Braided Hair Mourning Watch Fob, and a great collection of Victorian to 1930s Laces, Collars, and trims. Victorian Bloomers, Underskirts, and some blouses, several yards of the most beautiful black Belgian Lace, lots of crocheted and tatted items, embroidery and other needlework, and a collection of art deco clown powder boxes.

I had decided on Friday night, that all the good stuff was probably snatched up already and that it would be a waste to go Saturday.
BUT, then my pal Taylor had to text, DOILIES EVERYWHERE!! get your butt over to this estate sale up the hill. PLUS it's now half off everything!
Damn, productive plans halted. Doilies!? Why did you have to mention the delicate dainty tattered 80 year old doilies. Who can resist boxes and boxes of pretty pretty?

So, I ended up buying myself :

1. a 100 year old ring for $10 dollars! That's right I am marrying myself.

2. Two art deco era jewelry boxes! oh wow oh wow!

for the record there were lots of ladies powder boxes and harlequin clown dishes and flapper soap trays
but they were more on the 20- 30 dollar side

3. victorian trims and millinery beaded flowers

4. strange victorian crystal doily like trims- AHHH my door frames salute you!

1920's georgie boy ancestor portrait a mere $2 dollars!

already owned this gem, but thought I would post it.

Don't freak out quite yet, I barely bought anything at this sale. I am not collecting more crap. I plan on using some of this to make stuff. I promise.

the way the sun shines

Sometimes in the daytime I wander around my apartment hypnotized by the way the sunshine peeks through my windows. I know it seems strange, but the hazy light casting shadows across the walls and causing the sequins in my closet to glow makes me happy to live in L.A.
It must be the Ohio in me, but spying palm trees outside excites me.

This is the way it all looked in my art space and closet the other day.

Fran came over tonight and made a bunch of puff ball tissue paper things to hang at the SHOW PONY. Georgie Boy fell in love with the paper and kept waltzing over her handiwork

Come by the SHOW PONY tomorrow night for our monthly ART BLOCK PARTY!!
Fun begins at 7 and lasts til whenever we grow weary. Lincoln Madley is gonna perform at the shop and next door at HOPE gallery...Hamburger Eyes- show. Don't forget that the kids from WORK are reopening their space too, all new LADYBOY shoes.

go bright

saw these pictures on style.com from some Coachella parties. Loved M.I.A.'s glam glitter eyes. She really knows how to strut that geometric 80's. I think that a graffiti print or k. haring pattern romper is gonna have to be my next purchase

Dark HAND: tonight

Remember way back when I did that post on artist Shary Boyle? (How can you forget her mysterious macabre & dainty sculptures?) Anyway, she is performing tonight at the Silent Movie Theatre in collaboration with the FAMILY shop.
This sounds GOOD:

Famiy Presents Dark Hand and Lamplight LIVE
Thursday May 1st at 8pm at The Silent Movie Theatre
Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle and musician Doug Paisley formed Dark Hand and Lamplight in 2006 as an opening act for Will Oldham's California tour. This collaborative performance features Lamplight singing and playing guitar while Dark Hand creates live drawings and animates pre-drawn images on an overhead projector. Choreographed to the lyrics and music, Dark Hand projects her artwork onto a screen, the wall, Lamplight, and other available surfaces.

Last seen at the Hammer Museum in 2006, where an unsuspecting audience had their minds blown, this shouldn't be missed!

FAMILY
familylosangeles@hotmail.com
323 782 9221
Buy Tickets http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/events.html#dar

fancy glancy

Don't tell a soul, but Mr. C.Glancy is officially a year older.
The man behind the Monument Snowboard deal, and photographer whiz had a birthday party (on a Monday night) that filled the BAR.

the evening involved some drinks, some dancing and meeting up with some old friends I haven't seen in a long time. Overall we learned two things that night, Glancy is popular, and The Bar seems to bring out the worst in Fran and I. Scheid was bummed that I didn't give him the head's up that Glancy was a fashion photographer. Cause where there's a photographer there has to be a gang of models.

electric magenta mini flowers

living things that are nice to see everyday mixing with your other stuff: