Articles from March, 2009

Homemade hair cream

This is my homemade DIY hair cream. I labeled it pomade, but I think it’s more of a cream/shine product than a sticky pomade. Obviously I didn’t spend a lot of time on making it look fancy, since it’s labeled with masking tape and a sharpie. I really love this stuff. I have very thick, [...]

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Ici

One good thing about daylight savings is that there is still light enough in the evening to go for a stroll and enjoy an ice cream sandwich from Ici in Berkeley. We shared a candied meyer lemon sandwich with gingersnaps.

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Wavy lady

Once upon a time I had stick straight hair. I’m not sure what happened, but in recent years it’s developed a definite wave. I’ve decided to go with it, so I’ve been playing with the wave a bit. I basically just use a teeny dab bit of my natural homemade hair creme and comb some [...]

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Free to a good home: red plaid

Last one! Another one I’ve had sitting around for a good ten years. It’s kind of shameful. I also made some sort of crazy skirt/underbust corset thingy out of this back in the day. I adore plaid, and this warm red plaid is very punk rock vivienne westwood. It’s some sort of synthetic, which I [...]

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Free to a good home: flocked twill

I have had this fabric since high school. In my club going days, I made a corset and matching circle skirt out of it. I still have a big piece left. It’s a black flocked leopard pattern on black cotton twill. It would make a really cute pencil skirt if you’re the rockabilly type. I [...]

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