Another new year, another crossroad in my life. It was the beginning of 2008, and it was time to piss or get off the pot. I’d been having this on-again, off-again relationship with Canada Post for over a year by this point. As a letter carrier (aka “mailman”) for the nation’s postal service, I was…
I’m going to start doing this when I post the monthly collections. It’s a way to talk about each piece a little bit, its history, its provenance and so on. This month’s collection is called Mystery School, and features 12 unique pieces of clothing. Franny Farmer was an infamous actress from Seattle whose career was…
My applique dreams are proceeding apace, though with a few delays as I await the acquisition of the last few tools and materials to start experimenting. While I’ve been waiting, I’ve started to plan some tentative applique ideas in Photoshop- basically finding pictures that I think would work well and converting those into traceable (and…
As 2007 dawned I was overjoyed to be returning to Halifax after a challenging 4 months in Victoria BC. But I had a big uphill battle in front of me. I had completely shattered my left elbow only weeks earlier, undergoing an intense 4 hour surgery to piece it together again. As a result my…
I wanted to use this post as a way to try out this new gallery feature I’ve got going on with WordPress. I’m not really sure whether or not I’m going to stick with it, but it’s cool for now. Scroll to the bottom of the page if you want to know more about these…
So I have this fancy cool blog now. I’m super happy with it. But now I have to actually USE it. Back in 2004 ZBQ was a rapidly growing clothing line. I’d been posting general site updates for several years by this point, to let visitors know what was going on in ZB World. But…
I’ve talked about my Frenchy’s obsession on the ZBQ IG a few times, but this is probably the first time I’ve blogged about it. Frenchy’s is a chain of thrift stores found around the Maritime provinces, and in particular abundance in my home province of Nova Scotia. Here are a few recent scores from some…
At long last I have a working blog on this site again! I am tickled chartreuse. It’s been a long time since I was a regular blogger. Well I should qualify that statement: I did start a blog on the main site last year, but that project ran out of steam after only six posts….
Sorry for the long wait between posts folks. There’s really no excuse except for the fact that I am a brilliant and tortured arteest with a lot of existential angst. That’s what I’m going with anyway. You still have a week left to get the current featured pieces at a 35% discount. This time around…
Another 2 weeks, another 10 random pieces on sale. Not only that, but I just lowered all our prices across the board. Now ain’t I good to you? This week’s selection sees a little old, a little newish, some recently rediscovered gems and a whole lot of goodness gracious. Get ’em while they’re hot (right…