Fabric art dolls, jewelry using vintage beads, hand-embellished garments and hand dyed handbags. www.flyingfishbeads.com 713-956-0265
Several years ago, I retired from the field of costume design. Finding myself at loose ends and needing a creative outlet, I turned my hobby of collecting beads into making jewelry. Combining my textile experience and my embellishing skills, I now make jewelry, art dolls, and other accessories.
I love to embellish with vintage and other beautiful beads and textiles. Dyeing is a skill I learned when I was a costume designer; I continue to employ this skill in my work. Natural materials also play a major role in the finished product.
Fiber Arts * OOAK Art Dolls * Unusual Jewelry * Custom Work Upon Request
I paint with alcohol ink on tiles or yupo paper. AI is a fun and colorful medium! It only works on non-porous surfaces, and is also very unpredictable because it easily spreads and blurs and drips! But that is the beauty of it and also its unusual poetry. Although it is hard to “paint” with alcohol ink in the proper way, with brushes, it can be done, often with fun, and non-traditional results. But in addition to painting with brushes, I also let the ink drip, run, drizzle, or I spray it with 91% alcohol to further “mess with it!” It is fun and very striking to look at. www.ilovealcoholink.imagekind.com
I am an empty-nester who discovered alcohol ink out of boredom! I have been a singer for years, and that was my artistic outlet. But although I still love almost all kinds of music, I needed a new medium to express myself. I discovered alcohol ink online, and loved the look of it. And it is a fun thing to experiment with—so I hope people like my experiments!
Some people just like to volunteer, no credit necessary. Like @jansmugirl, a Heights resident. So we say, follow her on Twitter! She says: Foodie with training wheels, professional volunteer, CEO of the home. Hoping to get back to Singapore in the future.
At the market, I love handing out ice cold beer to the artists. It can get pricey though with seventy plus people in attendance. VERY $$
Well ONE day a couple of years ago, a beer rep saw me handing out beer, and asked me if she could give me her beer to give to the artists. That’s like asking a dog if he wants another cookie …
YES, PLEASE! And thus, my beer buying days came to an abrupt halt. boo hoo
Our current beer sponsor is our long time good friends Silver Eagle Distributors, and they provide Stella Artois. The artsy beer!
UNTIL last week, I forgot to remind them of the upcoming 1st Saturday, and they couldn’t rush it on a holiday weekend. Dang it, I’ve got to buy the beer again.
I decided to support local and went to Premium Draught at 733 Studewood St. and Johnny helped me select Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co.’s 1836, a copper ale. Delicious! Gen’s Antiques, our marvelous host pitched in and we were set.
Premium Draught is the place to buy quality beers by the bottle or draught, to go!
They explain it all on their website, pay them a visit, right between ANTIDOTE Coffee and Woods Food Mart in the Heights. 733 Studewood St. premiumdraught.com
Next Month, back to Stella!!! Cuz we love to yell … S-T-E-L-L-A!
Mix one part classic, one part antique and one part vintage and you’ve got Houston Vintage Market and Festival. Now in it’s sixth year, the annual event has been rising in popularity and getting bigger each year. With a focus on vintage fashions from the 20th Century, vintage enthusiasts from all walks of life join this festival.
Alice Berry, inside the 1940 Air Terminal in Vintage Pan Am attire.
Houston Vintage is an organization that brings together vintage vendors and enthusiasts from Houston and the surrounding areas. It’s an opportunity for all who love and live vintage to exchange ideas, find some amazing treasures, learn through demos and lectures (style, dance and culture), and celebrate all that is vintage throughout the eras.
Held at the classic 1940 Air Terminal Museum, the architecture of the original art-deco Houston Municipal Airport building at present-day William P. Hobby Airport, is the perfect backdrop for this two day event. Starting Friday evening, September 18, 7-11 p.m. with a preview party and fashion show held inside the Air Terminal building, patrons are encouraged to wear mid-century Hawaiian attire to coincide with this years theme of “Blue Hawaii,” the famous Elvis Presley flick from 1961. The preview party features a partial lineup of vendors, entertainment, food trucks, classic cars and complimentary beverages.
Continuing Saturday, September 19, 11-7 p.m. the market area is held in the recently restored 1928 Carter Field Airmail Hangar with dozens more vendors offering everything from vintage themed art, jewelery and clothing to beauty products. Entertainment with a vintage theme will be at both locations all weekend. Adding to the nostalgia of the occasion, the 1940 Air Terminal Museum’s restored planes and helicopters will face shoppers from the tarmac outside the open hangar doors.
The highlight of Saturday is the Ms. Houston Vintage pageant back at the terminal building with local celebrity judges Tina Zulu, owner of Zulu Creative, Miss Gay Houston 2015 Violet S’Arbleu and the Houston Chronicle’s fashion and beauty editor Joy Sewing.
Past Ms. Houston Vintage winners: 2014 Coco Kailee, 2013 Jessie Rox and 2012 Al E. Cat
Enthusiasts of all kinds are rarely satisfied with a mere two day event. Fortunately, the City of Houston designating September 14 – 20 as “Houston Vintage Week.” Jumping on the proclamation, event organizers added an opening happy hour, and a screening of the movie Blue Hawaii. All the activities, vendors, performances and more is on the website. Tickets can be purchased in advance from the website also, both days are included with the purchase of preview party tickets.
Houston Vintage Market and Festival 2015 HoustonVintage.com houstonvintagetx (at) gmail.com #houstonvintage2015
Kick-off Party At Lei Low Tuesday September 15, 6 – 8 p.m.
Lei Low Rum & Tiki Bar, 6412 North Main St
– Celebrate the beginning of Houston Vintage week
– Get in the Tiki spirit at this hip & happenin’ tiki joint in the Heights
– Open to the public / cash bar
– Drawing for free tickets at 7pm
“Blue Hawaii” screening – Wednesday September 16, 8 p.m.
Double Trouble, 3622 Main Street, Suite D, Houston, TX 77006
– Free event open to the public
– Introduction by Ms. Houston Vintage 2013 Jessie Rox
Preview Party and Fashion show – Friday Sept. 18, 7 – 11 p.m.
1940 Air Terminal Museum, 8325 Travelair Street, Houston, TX 77061
– $20.00 If purchased online (includes market entry following day) & $25.00 at the door. For Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/pxpvamg
– Live music by: Hank Schyma & the Southern Backtones
– Mid Century Hawaiian attire encouraged
– Prize for best dressed
Houston Vintage Market and Festival – Saturday, Sept 19 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
1940 Air Terminal Museum, 8325 Travelair Street, Houston, TX 77061
– $5 at the door. Free admission for kids 11 and under
– 40+ vendors
– Performances & demos
– Free parking
– Vintage attire from all eras encouraged!
Entertainment at Houston Vintage: Live Music by: Pecos Hank, featuring Jo Bird, Houston Cat’s Corner ( swing dance troupe), Rhonda Roberts, Maye Applebottom and dance performances by Luna Tango Productions
Food Vendors: St. John’s Fire, Golden Grill, Koagie Hots, Chocolate Wasted, Doughmaker Donuts and Smoosh Cookies
Sponsors: Topo Chico Deep Eddy Vodka, Magpies & Peacocks, Lakota Room, Candilicious, Height of Vintage, X., Violet Peacock, Lucky Cat Beauty and Neal Hamil Agency, Silver Eagle Distributors
The prestigious Great American Song Contest accepts five thousand entries per year from all over the world. Of those five thousand, only fifty-five are selected as award winners. In 2014, two of those fifty-five awards went to Richard and Maureen Hall. They call their music Psychedelic Folk. Their duo is called Bliss Hippy. See, read and here more at BlissHippy.com
Grifters & Shills is high energy roots music, featuring vocal harmonies, guitar, banjo, percussion, harmonica, and bass. They write and perform timeless music with deep ties to the past and a very assertive outlook on the present. Their music and their shows are high-energy, down-to-earth journeys through songs and stories, celebrating and touching lives wherever they go. griftersandshills.com Featured performer December 5, 2015 Performed July 4th and September 5.
my beer buying days came to an abrupt halt. boo hoo
