Reware VintageI’ve been saving a ton of the paper record sleeves leftover from records that I’ve cut up over the years. The blank paper, and lyrics sheets I’ve been using as packing paper for the last six months, and using some as wrapping for the record notebook refill packs, but for a long time I was [...]
So I was given a massive amount of records yesterday…and I can’t possibly use them all for record notebooks, so… It’s a free record give-away weekend at Beth’s house! I’d guess that it’s about 800 records to look through, and though it’s really not in any great shape and isn’t of any real value to [...]
Wisebread offers advice on re-using old calendars, and which year’s calendars line up with 2009. Brilliant! If only I could find the calendar used in their pic on the entry, which I believe is vintage Vargas!
Wax.fm has a great lil’ round-up of the Best Albums of All Time. Amazingly, I’ve cut up most of these at one time or another, give or take a few.
Yesterday I spent 10 hours on a buying trip for the site, and had a great time afterwards hanging out with my friends Eric and Katie in their new house before making the long trek back home. It was quite possibly one of the best hunting days for me ever, and I came home with [...]
Happy 50th Anniversary to an important and hugely influential label to the world, and a cherished piece of Detroit history -Motown Records! Today I watched some great coverage of the anniversary celebration on the news this afternoon, and was even more proud of the cityscape of Detroit I made, cut entirely out of records with [...]
I laughed when I read a few different articles and blog posts lately stating that Doc Martens were officially back in style again. I’m sorry, did Docs ever go out of style? To me, there are a number of designs and items that will always be classic, and the Dr. Marten shoes and boots are [...]
I’m writing a new series for Handmade Detroit about creating a craft minded business. Check out the first post here!
I was very sad to hear of Alfred Shaheen’s passing a couple days ago, and just as shocked that I hadn’t heard or read anything about it yet. I learned of his death on December 22nd through an email asking to use a photo of ours of a Shaheen dress in an article about his [...]