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ay 1944 cheers mr tiny posted by mr tiny at 10 35 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 40s christmas 1940 s 40s doll hat christmas hat crazy crafty figural hat granny craft mr tiny s workshop vintage christmas vintage crafts vintage doll hat vintage lifestyle blog sunday december 11 2016 sew what mexicali folk couture strikes again i like to pretend that my refusal to purchase scads of souvenirs is some kind of transcendence into a realm of heightened spirituality like i don t need twelve pairs of toy castanets i ll carry every beautiful moment of this spanish vacation in my heart more likely it is because i m cheap and fat and every penny saved on tchotchkes is a dollar earned toward döner kebabs fun flavored kit kats or croatian pizza don t even get me started on croatian pizza yes i m cheap chubby and lo theses many years later i m still tripping on all the untouched pairs of castanets left all over the house recuerdos de españa apparently my enlightened attitude isn t shared by my sister because from one of her work trips to mexico she returned with an avalanche of souvenirs i can just see her overwhelmed by the splendor of the mercado eagerly shouting i ll take one of everything quite conscious of my inability to control the sewing urge when handed a pile of interesting fabric mary made sure that her purchases included a few yards of a striped mexican textile in three colorways this fabric presented a particular challenge because each length was only eighteen inches wide knowing that some creative piecing would be in order i started draping the fabric on the dress form my personal design challenge was to incorporate each colorway into the completed ensemble after several rounds of pinning i decided on a poncho with a contrast yoke featuring a large neckline bow to balance the volume of the poncho i made a simple pencil skirt creating the necessary yardage by joining the fabric at the selvages fast becoming a signature of mr tiny s mexicali folk couture the poncho and its bow are trimmed in eighteen handmade pompoms i hemmed a remnant of the white fabric to make the headscarf the hat is a purchased souvenir envisioning a mid century counterpart to mary s overzealous souvenir hound my concept for a photo shoot involved a classic car full of colorful souvenirs time and finance are usually the fodder for the epic battle waged between my lofty concepts and meager reality thankfully mary s convertible corvair a million tissue paper flowers and our reliable friend photographer fabian came to my rescue when i told them that i wanted it to look like a sixty year old editorial from harper s bazaar or life magazine mary and fabian got right down to business fabian always has a deft way of combining fashion and automotive photography mary s shades are themselves a souvenir from our summer adventures in venice i have no impulse control and i don t care as much as i loved fabian s photographs i couldn t help but notice my failings as a stylist the matching basket purse i made is barely visible in any of the pictures and so i feel compelled to give the purse its due the basket purse follows the color blocking on the outfit and like the poncho it is trimmed in yellow pompoms if you re keeping score that makes twenty as much as i love it i m not sure how many opportunities mary will have to wear this outfit in its entirety like most of my mis adventures in design it scratched a creative itch allowing me to move on to the next project thanks to mary and fabian for skipping the tijuana taxi and hitching a ride on the mr tiny bandwagon tijuana taxi herb alpert the tijuana brass 1966 cheers mr tiny posted by mr tiny at 10 45 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1950 s 1960 s corvair convertible fabian fioto fashion photography mexicali folk couture mexican souvenir mexican textiles mr tiny s workshop sew what souvenirs vintage lifestyle blog vintage sewing wednesday november 30 2016 crazy crafty wacky tacky tree toppers two ways grandmas are so crafty spending countless hours leading up to every holiday ping ponging between their pfaffs tangles of yarn and crochet hooks and shakers full of glitter the only thing more comforting than learning the myriad ways in which pom poms and bits of felt can be transformed into everything from tree skirts to toilet paper cozies was the warmth of being gathered into the suffocating succor of her bosomy embrace this christmas crazy crafty projects should prove every bit as comforting as granny crafts of yore but just imagine instead of a sweet old granny a large man of equally heavy bosom slinging a glue gun as hot as a two dollar pistol struggling every year to find the tree topper of my dreams it finally came time to make one or two of my own early drafts of potential tree toppers were expected to follow the cone shaped body of this angelic phyllis diller lookalike but phyllis stick straight lines just weren t going to cut it for the more womanly angel that i had in mind inspiration struck in the curvy form of a bell as per usual my craft making ethos is if it ain t in the stash or it can t be found at the 99 cents store then it s probably not going to happen so i headed to the mecca of the impecunious crafter finding among other sundries a set of three graduated silver bells gathering metallic rickrack tinsel pipe cleaner glitter tulle and the disembodied doll parts that my brother and his wife found in a dark corner of their garage p s if you think i m creepy what does that say about them and their garage i began to assemble my angel my supplies if it doesn t include a toilet paper roll liquid soap bottle or cottage cheese container then it doesn t really count as a granny craft does it if i were a bell i d be ringing i covered the cardboard roll with colored paper and secured it inside the large bell base i shrouded a smaller bell in glitter tulle and finished it with a band of rickrack at the bottom and at the neckline i fleshed out the upper arms with tinsel pipe cleaner you little snow angel i fashioned the wings and the silver petal peplum out of a deconstructed christmas flowers from the 99 the skirt is several layers of the tulle gathered and then trimmed in rickrack i won t say that my mom was dismayed exactly perhaps confused is a better word for her mental state when she discovered two of her thirty something sons excitedly discussing the merits of diy doll making and the results of such forgetting about the bag of doll parts he had donated to the cause my brother though that the snow angel was vintage a compliment indeed maybe she couldn t appreciate it because she hadn t notice how liberally i applied the half used packet of sticky backed rhinestones to the skirt never one to leave tacky enough alone i spied the one remaining unadorned figural lady lamp among the wacky tacky archives you may recall from the crazy crafty post about the lady in the tutti frutti lamp that independently of one another each of my brother s gave me the same sexy lady lamp base momentarily angry at myself for heretofore overlooking her obvious holiday charms i quickly realized that it was not too late to explore her tree topping potential merry christmas boys following similar steps to the snow angel tree topper i made a teal under dress with a full circle skirt and an over dress of teal netting trimmed in iridescent rickrack and rhinestones wanting to disguise the socket i found among the christmas hoardings a fully lit flashing tree topper remembering that there exists such a thing as a socket to outlet converter i hid the wires and plugged it in i think the tinsel headdress transforms this snow girl into a full on showgirl an ode to electra from gypsy devil or angel i even made her stacks of rickrack and rhinestone bangles i m electrifyin and i ain t even tryin here shine the two of the wacky tacky est tree toppers in all of their glittering yuletide glory do you ever get the feeling like you ve created a cherished family heirloom before you ve even had time to share your project i do as you can kind of see the snow angel was awarded pride of place rather than our version of the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window it s a good thing for the runner up that we have erected two christmas trees this year have you made any christmas crafts this year if you re not thrilled with who sits atop your tree year after year remember that granny always said idle hands are the devil s playground get those holiday hands busy and make your own wacky tacky tree topper you gotta get a gimmick from gypsy 1962 cheers mr tiny posted by mr tiny at 2 42 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1950 s christmas craft crazy crafty diy tree topper grandma craft lady lamp t vintage christmas vintage doll vintage doll tree topper vintage lifestyle blog tuesday september 13 2016 holy rollin bots invades salvation mountain salvation mountain is instagrammer s ecstasy a much revered landmark for ig users salvation mountain is a checklist destination perfectly prohibitive in its desert geography close enough for social media sojourners to get there and back within a day distant enough to give every picture pilgrim the appropriate amount of cool cred for making the otherwise desolate journey as evidenced by the thousands of carefully filtered photos bearing the eponymous hashtag salvation mountain is a place for disingenuous youth to affect the poses that have become so subconsciously familiar those characterized by the subjects well studied stare as they regard the horizon with an expert combination of anguish and apathy a colorful if slightly sun blistered backdrop salvation mountain s unqualified judeo christian ethos can be tolerated in the name of post ironic photo gathering a surefire heart magnet salvation mountain elicits envy and scorn in equal measure in short it is instagram the veneer protecting my contempt for social media sociology may seem perilously thin yet there we were excitedly making the trek to a destination every bit worthy of its celebrity get a load of this music and video by mary i refuse to insult anyone s intelligence by pretending that a profundity greater than the average mountain climber s motivated our visit yes the wacky tacky adventure team in our quest to storm america s greatest trash castles was there to document the divinely inspired folk art of leonard knight but not before procuring some ultra hip photographic evidence of our own day trip blazing our trail we began to spitball a few ideas for heightening our experience at salvation mountain as we flew past a discount store i suggested that it might be fun to arrive in white sweatsuits and drugstore flip flops giving the appearance of a cult pilgrimage call it pretense if you must but i was looking for a way to add a layer of humor to our visit after all the ten sexiest instagram poses lose something in translation when applied to a fat man on the cusp of middle age when the elusive white sweat suit became our proverbial white whale we were forced to settle for the offerings of the paint aisle leaving the hardware store in crisp white coveralls and a trio of matching safety goggles introducing bots brotherhood of terrestrial salvation like a mess of meth making mike teavees salvation mountain is the lifework and ministry of leonard knight what started in the 1970s as a proselytizing mission via homemade hot air balloon seriously evolved into an 80s era devotional of straw clay found objects and countless coats of house paint it took two tries and many years for knight to master his signature mountain making technique through it all his faith love and generosity never wavered expansion and maintenance of his passion project continued until his health began to fail in 2011 in the years since his subsequent death local volunteers have lovingly preserved knight s masterpiece love is all you need you may quote me this legacy of love is the true message of salvation mountain christian and nonbeliever alike are reminded at every turn that the purpose of our existence is love just in case anyone missed the literal writing on the wall these two bots brethren demonstrate how to get a heart on it was unclear whether other knight devotees were feeling the love of the bots presence despite a woeful lack of purpose planning on our part many videos and photographs surreptitious and otherwise were taken as we silently marched our way up and over the mountain with un swinging arms for that authentic touch of cultish weirdness she s still wondering if the label on the coveralls was accurate one size saves all one confused brit was brave enough to approach me and inquire after our presence struggling for a clever response i instead feigned a vow of silence trying and failing to communicate with meaningless hand gestures when the bots did speak it was a practice in improvisational call and response between sister siusiak s polish and our semi slavic gibberish punctuated liberally by the polish slang for wiener starting to question our own bizarre behavior all we needed was to turn a corner for a loving affirmation things reached a new pinnacle of strange when we formed a human triangle facing inward with our hands on each other s shoulders and began to vocalize in unison i m willing to place a generous amount of accountability upon our choice of ensemble with temperatures upwards of 110 degrees the internal temperature of our space suits might very well have been delirium inducing you could say that we were getting carried away by the spirit of the man upstairs in the end we couldn t decide if we were the lighthearted antidote to the hordes of picture pilgrims or ourselves symptomatic of the devolution of weird roadside in america as the conflict rages on we are seriously considering making bots official we are mobilizing and brother cyrus says the reaping is nigh resistance is futile if you don t want to get left behind all you must do is jump in the line jump in the line harry belafonte 1961 this video has been brought to you by fartco inc salvation mountain beal rd niland ca salvationmountain us cheers and amen mr tiny brother diminutata posted by mr tiny at 9 17 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1980 s adventure bots brotherhood of terrestrial salvation folk art holy rollin leonard knight religious kitsch salvation mountain trash castle trash sculpture vintage lifestyle blog weird roadside monday august 1 2016 sew what a shimmering 60s minidress how often does it happen that you start out with every intention of creating a shimmering 60s minidress only to end up after hours of sewing and hand finishing with jane jetson s housecoat sorry george it probably didn t help that this mr tiny original was made out of a 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