HOLY SMACK folks, can you believe it’s already been a month since my last update? What a lame blogger I am. Well, enough self-pity. I’m pretty excited about this month’s collection of garments, so let’s dive right in: OK so this shirt is obviously all about context, and if you don’t follow hip hop culture…
It’s a new month, and that means a new collection. While I had thought of basing collections around certain themes when I first started this in February, I’ve gone with mostly color-based groupings of shirts so far. I’ll be honest, it’s easier. This month’s color, just in time for spring, is green. I’ll focus on…
The applique project has been proceeding nicely- in fact I just finished my fifth composition. I apologize for not posting updates through most of April, but I hope to make amends for that in May and beyond. I’ve been taking plenty of hyper-lapse videos to document a lot of the process, and I’m throwing them…
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…