Feeling a little bit of spring on it's way yesterday. It's making me think about yellow and black, bumblebees to be exact! Here's a little tableau of some of my bee related objects. I sometimes see myself as the Queen bee, stinging people with my tattoo needles.
We've been in the new apartment almost a year now, I guess you could say I'm taking my time to finish the decorating. I was looking for the exactly right ceiling fixture. Something fifties and something multicolored. I finally found it, unfortunately it wasn't cheap, but some sweet angel offered to get it for us for as a housewarming gift (they only first saw the apartment in october). I'm so happy, the colors match my circus theme perfectly. Thanks to Fred for helping with the re-wiring and installation!
I'm working on some ideas for a painting of perfume and lipstick, so I took some photos of my collection. I know I'm not the best photographer but it was fun putting together this shoot.
I had to build this shelf to house my collection. I was all giddy bringing everything out of the boxes. Look at all the pretty colors!
I've been collecting dice since I was about 17. My first electric tattoo was of a pair dice (it's covered up now but that's another story). Many people ask me why dice? Franky, I'm not 100% sure why. I'm not a gambler. I got into bakelite much later, but I love how the plastic looks like candy or the other way around. Small, square, lucky. The fact that you also see images of luck in tattoos and associated with rock n roll (rock a billy). It's pretty possitive I think to be attracted to good luck charms. So maybe that's it!
We have concrete walls in our apartment. To hang all these pictures I would have had to drill 11 holes!
In order to hang all my little to medium paintings (some mine, some painted by friends) I devised this system. I ordered a large piece of plywood and had it delivered. It didn't fit in the elevator we had to carry it 11 floors up! I had a friend come over and cut out the shape. We even hung it up straight away. I needed help after all! Next I painted it and hung all the paintings. I think it will change and evolve over the years. I thought about gold leaf... some future day perhaps.
I recently found the chandelier in an antique fair. I had some help wiring it up.
Here's how that piece of furniture looks in the living room. It's 1950's or 1960's, french. I think it's great how it hides all my books away for a neat and clean look.
The cover on the sofa bed still needs to be sewn. And lots of other stuff to do before the living room is finished.