In honor of the Los Angeles premier of "Air Guitar Nation" tonight - here is a Heavy Metal comic book to get you in the mood. Turn up some Judas Priest "Parental Guidance", grab your favorite crayons or markers and create some thrashin' pictures to hang in your abode.

Heavy Metal Limo-Zeen coloring book

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U-Handbag has a free tutorial on how to make this little clutch. My friend and I were discussing making bags and clutches while digging through piles of upholstery fabric one Saturday afternoon - I came home and did a quick search and found this pattern....super cute! This tutorial has easy to follow instructions and is very detailed...thank you Lisa ! I am going to try to make it the next time I have a spare evening.



Free Pattern Here


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Built by Wendy Sample Sale

Built By Wendy


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Chapi and Chapo

Just like Grandma's

For a quick and easy 7 minute meal...Ta-da ..cheesy goodness molded into a ring shape. No half-ass throw it on the plate mac-n-cheese at this house. I think you could modify this recipe with all kinds of things. Toss in a can of Rotel Tomatoes, add some veggie sausage or hot dogs. If you're feeling really creative, you can add food coloring. Green cheese ring is always a favorite at my house. Don't forget - you need a nice apple pie on-hand like all good housewives from the fifties, but you could also substitute individual fried pies in a pinch. Mmmm...
My favorite part of this advertisement is the Parkay Margarine mention in the complete meal menu. Nothing makes a meal more complete than some Parkay!



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Today's Cute

Another little cutie that I finished this week. I modified a pattern that I found online somewhere - I hope you like !


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Live at the Scene

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My date with Joan Jett,

Joan Jett… She wrote the music for the pubescent all-girl band The Runaways in the late seventies. I used to tease my hair out, rub black eyeliner around my eyes, put my mom’s silver leggs-eggs in my shirt to compensate for my flat chest and stand in front of the closet mirror yelling at the top of my lungs “ Hello Daddy, Hello Mom, I’m your..ch-ch-ch-ch- cherry Bomb!” I had no idea what cherry bomb meant..I still don’t really, but I loved to dance to that song and man I thought those girls were cool. This was 1979 and the movie "The Warriors" had just debuted at the theater down at the local mall. Here was my list of priorities. Number one - I wanted to be in a gang and number two - I wanted to be Joan Jett because she was the prettiest of all of the runaways. Nice priorities for a 6 year old!



2 years later – I love Rock and Roll poured out of my stereo while I lay sunning myself in the back yard of the house. My hairy, skinny, third grader legs were covered in baby oil and I started begging my mom to buy me the album. PLEASE MOM, I will clean my room, I will wash the dishes…please???? She bought it for me and I played that album until the grooves were worn down to smooth vinyl. That album helped me escape the fact that I was the daughter of a poor, single mom, growing up in a small Texas town. I would practice my sneer in the mirror and I wore black leather. Joan was cool because she was hot, but she was one of the guys - She wrote music, drank beer, cursed and kicked shit…all while looking completely badass in my 15-year-old eyes. When Lita Ford released her Metal album in 80’s, I could never take her seriously. With the glam pop hair-do and her ridiculous spandex one pieces – she couldn’t hold a candle to Joan. I preferred my jeans and t-shirt combo.

Last night I had a dream that Joan Jett was my girlfriend. I am not sure that we were lesbians…I might have been a man, or maybe she was. I was really happy that we had the same haircut and could share skinny jeans. I took her out to dinner. I walked her up to the front porch at the end of the date and when I kissed her - I woke up. I don’t really know what the dream meant...I don’t usually fantasize about women and dating them. The only thing I can think of is that maybe I was morphing myself today into my former self and I really went on a date with my subconscious dressed up as Joan. Crazy.

….Ah, now I don't hardly know her 
But I think I could love her 
Crimson and clover

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Pointy Kitty

I finally had an evening to finish my pointy kitty - here she is !
I found the pattern HERE











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Being a hobo is cool man

I must be getting old....Seeing kids who tune in and drop out is cool, these photos are amazing and full of feeling - but I can't help but see the fake theatrical costumes these kids are wearing. The vintage ties tied just "so" on a few of the guys, the 1800's vests, hobo hats and striped socks. It's fun to run around the woods pretending that the world we live in isn't dying. It's fun to pretend that you're a hobo and it's 1887 and nuclear bombs, global warming and over population is not slowly killing all inhabitants of this planet we live on. Yes, it's much simpler to pretend that gaslights have just been invented, cars are a thing of the future...we will live off the land, we will hand wash our clothes in streams and we will dance like gypsy's in front of the bonfires to music played on our vintage instruments that we bought because it looks so cool to play a mandolin. Yes, seductive to drop out and pretend....but then I notice the pictures of the babies and animals. These innocents are sleeping in the open, starving along with the camp and what will happen to them in a few years ? When their parents have no credit, no bank accounts, can not rent or buy a home, are too scarred in the face and arms to even attempt to get a normal job...what will these children do? Money is not everything, I know. Why are these animals forced to travel the rails. They would be strays otherwise, you could counter to yourself...I know, but why does the world have to be that way? Poor little kitty...it breaks my heart.
I scare myself because to whisper this aloud makes me feel like an old fogey , an archetypical holier than thou bag that has sold my soul to consumerism and the "MAN". But I haven't..I agree with living off the land, I believe in not following the masses and I believe in being young and free....what I don't believe, is when I look in this girls eyes, I do not see sincerity. I see a little girl who got mad at her parents for being wealthy and maybe she wanted to prove to them that she could make it on her own. I see a girl who is in a costume, playing the part - but not believing because she knows at the next stop all she has to do is call mommy and she can head home. I could be wrong...I could just be getting old...


See Mike Brodie's rail photos here ridin' dirty face
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