Spice Up Your Evening

The hats look great sitting around my studio but they look tremendous on a head out on the town.

Recycled Elegance

Here are a couple new hats that use upcycled, salvaged, reclaimed and recycled materials. Specifically, upcycled neckties, old buttons, leather from an old skirt, netting from a tangerine bag, netting from an old prom dress, an antique hat pin, and vintage milliner’s fruit stems.

Treasure Island Flea – March 24 and 25

Rumpelsilkskin is off to Oakland for the Treasure Island Flea market. I haven’t been yet but it sounds great with lots of unique crafts and antiques (I’m always looking for old hats, hat pins, costume jewelry, odds and ends and, of course, old ties.) I’ll be taking these new pieces with me along with pouches, bags and pillows all made from neckties. Hope you’ll stop by and see me on the ground floor of the building.

Got Your Party Hat?

We celebrated my step-mom’s special birthday with a cocktail party in an art gallery. Rumpelsilkskin hats did their part to enhance the event.

Hats in Humboldt

I finally am showing my hats in my local area. You can see them in the artisan’s co-op in the new Kinetic Sculpture Race Museum at the corner of 5th and E Street in Eureka, CA. The museum has a nice selection of racing vehicles along with lots of the Glorious Founder, Hobart Brown’s work and collections. Really fun stuff. There is an opening tonight from 6 to midnight. Come on out if you can.


(I heard there is plenty of wine :)

First Hats of 2012

The new year has brought a bright burst of creativity. Exuberance abounds in these fun little cocktail hats.  The hats are made from recycled neckties then I add repurposed fabric, antique silk veiling, antique costume jewelry, antique hat pins, recycled netting, repurposed buttons and other random found objects. Hope you enjoy! Some of these along with a couple others are on my Etsy page

Meet Me in San Francisco

Next weekend Rumpelsilkskin will be trying it’s best to find homes for the last year’s crop of daring and darling hats and headpieces.

Friday between noon and 4 p.m. there is a special trunk show at Successories in the Button Box on 24th Street in SF.  The one-day show will feature several artists that create wearable art using repurposed neckties as a basis for their creations.  There is bound to be a huge array of necktie fashions.

Then on Saturday and Sunday Rumpelsilkskin will share a large booth with remade clothing designer Jill Pillot at the KPFA Craft Fair on 8th and Brannan in SF from 10 to 6 p.m.

 

Red Plaid with Black Netting