Museum of Wonder

• CRAFTING FASHION: A pop-up shop curated by Billy Reid + Alabama Chanin

  05.17.2012 – 05.26.2012

   

  Opening Thursday
  May 17, 6:00 pm – until
  54 Bond Street, New York City

  Crafted Fashion, Food, Music, and Drink @ Billy Reid

  Featuring a performance by Grammy nominated singer/songwriter
  Tift Merritt at 8:00 pm.

  Store hours: Monday – Saturday:
  11:00 am – 8:00 pm
  Sunday: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm.

  Growing list of designers include:
  Heath Ceramics, Alabama Chanin, Susan Cianciolo, Maria Cornejo,
  George Esquivel, Pamela Love, Hugo + Marie, Maria Moyer, Billy Reid,
  Albertus Schwaponel, and Imogene + Willie.

  (Open to the Public)

• MAKESHIFT: The Sewing Circle

  05.18.2012

  

  A DIY Workshop & Closed Door Conversation on
  Cloth, Craft, and Industrial Design

  Friday, May 18, 2012

  The Standard, East Village
  25 Cooper Square

  THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY – WAIT LIST ONLY

  RSVP
  alex@seriousbusinesspr.com

  www.alabamachanin-makeshift.com

• CRAFTING DESIGN: A MAKESHIFT Chair Workshop

  05.19.2012

  

  Hosted by Alabama Chanin and Partners & Spade
  in partnership with Krrb

  12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  Partners & Spade
  40 Great Jones Street
  New York City

  BYOC (Bring Your Own Chair) or refurbish one of our street finds
  DIY tools and materials provided
  Furniture photo-booth with Susanna Howe

  Limited spaces available — rsvp@seriousbusinesspr.comto reserve

Fresh yard eggs from Maggie’s  Grandma’s farm in Rhodesville, Alabama.

Nice dark yellow yolks. Very tasty.

Found a good flea market next to the Indian Mound in Florence, Alabama. Happens every Tuesday morning.

I liked this sign for $10

Bob Ross look a likes for $5 each

Peach Man with a Waffle House Hat.

The weirdest thing was all these old men were walking around with shotguns.  I guess they sell them this way.  Mobile booth!

Main drag

I heard John Henry’s smoke detector going off the other day and come to find out that he was boiling some wooly mullein leaves in a pot to wash his feet with! I guess the smoke detector had never sensed such a smell as that before . Anyway he said his mama , who was a midwife , used wooly mullein for all kinds of treatments back then.

Anyway when i was rambling in Tuscumbia, Alabama the other day I came across a hardware store that bought roots and leaves from “Diggers” in the area. They said that the town had a whole community of root diggers that make their living just from collecting wild plants.

Stacks of dried and cured wooly mullein leaves.

The store also sells seeds of all sorts displayed in these cool old bins.

Sells cool pocket knives too.

And has some weird taxidermy . Like this Golden Eagle.

Beth plant said to cure women problems.

This mullein plant is growing in my  garden.

More mullein facts here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbascum_thapsus

Old Motel Paintings , fancied up

Stopped by to see Ol’ Hank the other day .

Up on the big hill in Montgomery.

People leave all kinds of stuff on his grave. Flowers, bottles of whiskey, notes.

I didn’t leave nothing but my shadow.

Pulled this out of an old traffic light that i found on the side of the road. The government road folks are replacing all the old glass ones like this with “new and improved” plastic ones. I think it’s from back in the 50′s.

Drilled some holes in this old Picture i got at the Possum Trot and sewed some thread on her dress

Feather from a Red Headed Woodpecker that lives in my garden.