Desert dog loves the heat

i think he was really tired from chopping all that wood.

May Day Treasury

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4dbf10ab334a8eef4f9072ae/belated-may-day?ref=pr_treasury

 I am celebrating for the whole month...love this pin from a4sa on etsy

Music time

What is going on in music right now is boring to me. Maybe it is just that I am so far removed from anything related to the energy of the punk rock counter culture I grew up with here in hippie land, maybe it is the internet (easy to blame when I used to have to order mix tape samplers from little distros and meet people in alleys to buy records...OK, I only did that once...), or maybe I am boring and lazy for not seeking out the answer to my auditory desires. 

My husband sent me this X record, which actually took me three days to put on because, in my mind, I had heard everything by X because someone made me a 90 min mix tape in high school. Then I bought a random record at a flea market and it failed to impress me. But this is a great record, except for True Love PT. #2, which sounds like a blatant attempt to keep up with Blondie. But I never liked the song Rapture and don't much care for X's version either.

I do remember from my mix tape Exene Cervenka talking some mad smack about Deborah Harry during a live recording. This commentary is probably 28 years too late, but nothing else was going on today!

More Project Upholstery

The backs of the theater seats were tolerable, but the seat part...I guess it didn't help that I suspected a mouse had made a nest in one. The neat thing is seeing all the natural fiber padding! An indication that they are quite old...I should check what the fabric is made from. 

I wish I had a film strip of all the people who sat in these seats over the course of their life span at the Pershing Theater in El Paso, Texas. 

The images show removal of the old fabric from the seat, and the bottom image is of the backs finished. 

baby belt!

First custom baby belt came out perfect! Vegetable tanned leather is the most eco-friendly leather, and leather in general is a byproduct of the meat industry, except for exotics, which I do not use. The dyes are primarily from the Eco-Flo from Tandy Leathery.

it is so green here...

grass grows on metal rooftops and living flora flourishes almost anywhere

where we live

i have never seen such a pink tree with such beautiful flowers. any ideas what it is?