DYE

i just put a whole load of clothes that i loved, but where not black into a blackdye bath.....some of them are coming out this purplery grey black, while some tops that had graphics on them are looking really good......and they where kool clothes i bought at a thrift store, well most of them.....did i tell you that i like thrifts and have A>D>D.....i thought you would have guessed it by now.....anyway i will show you them when they are done.....

so this is something else i have been working on while waiting to move.....i have got back to simple handwork....it feels good.  these are random bead strings that i made from all lose beads that i found while packing up......and some that i just grabbed out of bead jars......a relative of a relative passed away and i got a whole crate of white bed linens (the good stuff) while i love looking at beautiful white beds, lets just say it would not remain white around me for long......so i dyed them these really hot colors......one of the sheets i am making a simple curtain out of...you to straight stitches across the top.....well anyway i am going to drape them on the curtains over they are hang......remind me to take photo's......when i set up my new home.....i feel like I'm going home for the first time in a long time.....but i still always not regret , but feel bad that i am still not in sayville ny.....but life goes on and i lived there a very long time ago........but i loved it and the city was a train ride away and i could walk to the train......amazing.....how times have changed.....i now live in a place where the buses stop running at 6.....

monday, monday....

another dreary day.....i hate deary weather.....just rain already or snow.....countdown to moving, i am hoping that i can start to move on wednesday....i am up to my neck in boxes, i can't even pack anymore as i am running out of run to walk......my bedroom has become grand central (yeah don't i wish} cuz the living room is piled high with boxes......if you were blind you would kill yourself....so since we can't fast forward to wednesday, we have to take it on day at a time........

what i am working now

so i have come of an age, where they just don't make the kind of clothes i want to wear everyday....and now that i don' have a real job.....i am just an arTist.....ha....i have taken to altering and up cycling clothes....now for those of you that know me...know i have some style rules....i like black, and no matter how many time i try to wear colorful clothes i always come back to black.....i have some color for accent.....i will live in leggings for the rest of my life....i don't even own a pair of jeans.....hate them.....i love t' shirts and have been cutting mine up since the 70's only we didn't have books back them to tell you how.....we just cut them and pinned them back together.....i pretty much do the same thing now although i have added stitches and beads......i like long tops.....and jackets.....silver, metal, studs, pearls,leather, lace, whips and chains.....i love cowboy boots and only wear real cowboy boots from texas.....i love good bags and shows.....and i can rock just about anything.....now i like to wear sweater type things.....and lately when i shop(maybe cuz i can't afford top designer clothes anymore) oh i can and i do....but at this point once again i have to stop listening to what other people say and dress the way i want.....and in the summer i only mostly wear dresses.
Ok back to the picture....i am up cycling clothes now, so i had this over sweater...dare i say it got to tight.....so i cut it down the middle and a little on the side seams and i got my jar of black vintage buttons and using them as trim......i have a stack of clothes i want to alter, but they are packed away....i have not really sewn in years.....but boy can i sew and make stuff.....so that is what is up for now.......see ya soon.......