A few years ago I was shopping for a cool pin cushion, but all I saw were stupid tomatoes and other cutesy things not fitting to my work space. I acquired a damaged cow skull which I attempted to clean the remaining charred flesh out of, but it turned into a very long and smelly story, and I didn’t end up using it… Next best thing: tea light candle holders in the shape of spiders! Candle holders are excellent options for pin cushions because they are usually sturdy, so they can also function as fabric and pattern weights. Ah, multitasking. Good for people and non-people.
Anyway, here’s how I made it:
::KtB::
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Along came a spider, bitches!
I made the spider ladies’ outfits in about 2 weeks and am quite please with the results! Check out the rest of the pix below ::
KtB + tlr = epic win
::KtB::
Tags: helen bui, john oneill, judy tran, kelly, lolspiders, romak, santiago artwalk, spiders, tlr
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I had a rack at Kavika Works in the Santiago Art Walk on 10/17, with three totally awesome models creeping around, taping spiders to people and promoting my website. It was a lot of fun, I can’t wait to see the photos! Here are some behind the scenes snapshots that tlr took ::
This was one of my customer who bought the Disfiguring the Goddess disfigured goddess dress! I can see why - it matches her outfit :)
Here’s a pic of the dress in action at my fashion show, modeled by Alecia Patterson ::
One of my models for the evening, Helen Bui :: she’s also a dancer for band Ming and Ping (I made their babies)! She has such a great attitude and personality, it was a blast working with her! She described herself as a walking highlighter, so it was a big difference to be a crazy spider lady for a night!
Helen’s friend Judy, another of my awesome models for the evening ::
Helen’s other friend and my third model for the evening, Kelly ::
John (who was the bouncer at my fashion show!) was my photographer for the evening (pictures coming soon, yay!). He was such a trooper, I was worried about the models’ comfort but never considered all the running around John was doing - so much that his feet were blistered by the end of the night! Brutal…
Myself and the models all gathered around John’s camera to see the immortalized awesomeness…
Uber-high-school pose with me, the models, Romak who did makeup, and John. You can see the artwork in the background, done by Eric Zendejas ::
Judy, KtB, Kelly, Romak, Helen, and John in front
I will post more thoroughly about the event when I get the real pictures from John!
::KtB::
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Clearly, spiders <3 me. I have finely honed arachno-alluring prowess developed over years of intensely looking for them anywhere I am. Now they just come to me. It’s awfully convenient :)
I sadly moved away from the orb weaver haven and ended up in daddy-long-leg breeding grounds. There were at least 13 adult spiders living in our bathroom (yes, just in the bathroom…I want to have a contest like those ones where you guess how many jelly beans there are in some jar and you win the jar, but I don’t think we could get an accurate count of the spiders inhabiting HM157) here before I took this picture ::
In person she looked cycloptic, carrying around her sack of recently hatched eggs in her mouth, it was effing adorable! The next day the little ones were out on their own, all spread out under the bathroom cabinet ::
Aaaahhh! They’re SOOoo cute! Look at all those little legs! <333 It’s a bit of a shift to go from watching juicy, colorful, hairy orb weavers to watching crusty old daddy long legs, so the babies really livened things up. A couple days after those hatched an orb weaver showed up in the bathroom door frame, I suspect out of jealousy ;) Someone destroyed most of his web innocently one night when walking into the bathroom doing the sleepy-time shuffle, so the next night he moved to another door frame of equally high traffic…I got a crappy picture before my battery died ::
At least you can see how immaculate his web was. Totally awesome. I moved him onto some bushes outside where he will hopefully be able to mate and create a rainbow of mini-hims before being eaten by something…
On an equally spidery note, I’m going to be selling Halloween costumes at the art walk in Santa Ana this weekend!
That means if you live in the Los Angeles / Orange County area and want some Insidious Clothes, you can actually try stuff on! Yay! It turns out I have a lot of stuff that I don’t have pictures of, so the internet has never even seen it! And I made a few extra spooky things specifically for this event.
:: Here’s a little om nom nom of a few costumes that will be there ::
::KtB::
Tags: daddy long leg, hm157, orb weavers, spider web, spiders
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