Super-Junk

Hope everyone found lots of eggs!

This is my first bunny cake. Welcome to the world, overweight angora rabbit with Styro-feet™. He’s stuffed with crushed pineapple and more coconut. yum!

Here’s an old photo of my mom and aunt showing off their bunnycakes:

I confess, I don’t spend much time cooking. I do, however, want it to be functional and nice so my cook doesn’t quit.  Our kitchen is a smallish galley with a little breakfast nook – lots of wall space but only one upper wall cabinet – definitely not taking advantage of the height.

before

I knew I wanted to put in open shelving to hold our cookbooks and some of my more colorful pyrex since the room is pretty stark white.

I was shopping around for vintage corbels on ebay when I stumbled across these reproduction crossed-gun brackets. I think they’re a nice crossover between my love of kitchen knick-knacks and kitchy cowpokes (a collection I seriously want to expand!). I just sprayed them white. We cut down two pre-milled laminated shelves from Ikea. They’re strong and heat resistant.

The kitchen also has this cute free-standing cabinet that apparently was built later to match the built-in cabinets. I put some of my favorite mini harlequin fabric behind the glass doors.  (yes, some of the same stuff is in this picture as on the new shelves, this pic was taken before the shelves were installed. I wish i had two of those cookie jars, though!)

I am searching now for the perfect fabric for curtains to help with the stark whiteness. I’d also love to paint above the chair rail. Maybe use up the robin’s egg blue I have left over from the last place.

The last 3 months (wow, has it been that long?) for me have been pretty consumed with work and moving to a new house.  The house is finally feeling like “ours” and so I was itching to take some pics and talk about how 2010 has been going.

Lots of words and pics  await you after this cut!  here is the abbreviated version for the tl;dr crowd:

• we moved
• some stuff sucked really bad
  • old wood is delicious to termites
• but mostly everything is good
  • old wood is really pretty and smells like nice old people

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I’m so sorry, we had a plumbing emergency today and I completely lost track of time and didn’t get the babies in my shop on time. I knew I should have set an alarm!

I’ll post The two bunka babies tomorrow (Sunday, March 14) at noon PST.

To punish myself I will work on a new batch right away!

Two Bunka babies will be posted for sale in my Etsy – Saturday, March 13 at noon PST!

Visit Super-junk.com on November 11, 2009 at 11:00 am PST to purchase these girls.

Sally, Peggy, Jennifer, Trudy, Jane and Carla are all looking for nice homes!
Be here 11/11 at 11:00 to make them yours.

I’m just now putting the finishing touches on a small batch of handmade dolls that I’ll be taking along with us on our trip to Tokyo (thursday!). I’m running around like a headless chicken making sure everything is taken care of so that we’ll have a stress-free trip.

Our first stop in Japan is Design Festa. Paul’s been cranking out lots of great work to exhibit and sell. I’m looking forward to soaking up some creativity (and shopping!) but I will be offering a few tiny handmade babies and pose dolls at the booth.

I’m especially looking forward to going back to Tokyo for the second time. The first time we went I was crazy with anticipation, having no idea the wonders we would see. This time I’m taking comfort in the familiarity of my favorite place on earth – like going home after a long, stressful day.  No doubt there will be wonderful new things to see (and eat!), new friends to make, and new little alleyways to get lost in, but we have our list of things we cannot wait to do again.

Vintage japanese girl's room

I’ve been seeking out inspiration for vintage, japanese-style girls’ rooms while working on my dollhouse project. This link Paul sent me couldn’t have come at a better time

Super awesome badass. Want, want, want!

I ♥ Itokin Park

(this uncensored, unedited verbal diarhhea brought to you by extremely adorable blythe in wrestling bear mask and tuxedo)

I’m getting ready to post a limited batch of new mini pose dolls,  and just wanted to test out the new “subscribe” feature I added tonight. If you subscribe via email (the little form is in the left column, under Posey’s head) you can get shop updates delivered to your email (I promise not to spam!).

(photo by Linda, cute little guitar from Variation!)