Pickwick & Plum http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog Relics & Artifacts for the Assemblage Artist Thu, 10 May 2012 21:32:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Pickwick & Plum Sale’s Event! http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/events/pickwick-plum-sales-event/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/events/pickwick-plum-sales-event/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 21:31:27 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=340

]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/events/pickwick-plum-sales-event/feed/ 0 Calling all pickers! http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/events/calling-all-pickers/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/events/calling-all-pickers/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:01:54 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=336 If you are familiar with the neighborhood Rejuvenation is located in, you’ll probably know about both Bernadette Breu’s shop and Seek the Unique around the corner on se 6th. Well… I just learned that Lonnie and Andrea who run Seek the Unique are starting up a ‘every third Saturday of the month’ Flea Market – AND are looking for vendors. They’re going to close down the block out front of the shop and give folks 10′ spaces to sell their wares! Sounds like a good time. Unfortunately Pickwick and Plum can’t participate at the first of these events, but will definitely be joining in come May!

If you are interested in getting involved, call the store at 503-208-2580 and if you’re just looking to s.h.o.p…. it’s going to be going from 10am to 5pm – any weather (so lets cross our fingers) and it’s between Yamhill and Belmont on se 6th ave….

Yea!!!!

]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/events/calling-all-pickers/feed/ 0 Rich catches me in the art studio http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/musings/rich-catches-me-in-the-art-studio/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/musings/rich-catches-me-in-the-art-studio/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:38:11 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=328 The “inside” art studio that is…

]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/musings/rich-catches-me-in-the-art-studio/feed/ 0 the lonely road of dreams http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/the-lonely-road-of-dreams/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/the-lonely-road-of-dreams/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:03:06 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=320 Just completed this piece which I started a week and half ago at Collage Garage. It’s the combination of: an old box, old shoe sole, plumbing washer, doll head, animal bones and some old furniture decorative wood pieces. I’ve used some old fishing line and a weight.

]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/the-lonely-road-of-dreams/feed/ 2 Patron Saint of Messy Art Studios http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/patron-saint-of-messy-art-studios/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/patron-saint-of-messy-art-studios/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:35:23 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=314 Just finished this one – made out of an old clock body, broken porcelain statue, various bits of crap and two small black birds (little hard to see at each side of the window).

]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/patron-saint-of-messy-art-studios/feed/ 0 Get Small http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/get-small/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/get-small/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:01:20 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=308 After weeks of working on my large scale stuff, I had to take a break and get my Steve Martin on. Back onto jewelry for a while…

Some Pendents hanging up to dry

mixed assemblage necklace

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This started out as the top part of a plastic automaton head (purchased at Plucky Maidens last summer) and the front part of a deer skull (given to me by a very nice taxidermist). I added the antlers, dap’d the whole mess and stuck an old mug handle up it’s nose.  You get to see it here pre and post painting. I am going to mount this one on what’s called a European Skull Mount. That will allow it to hang on the wall but be angled out towards the visitor. I’m still in the process of designing that… so…. more to come!



]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/hello-sexy/feed/ 0 In the works…learning to use an upholstery button maker http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/in-the-works-learning-to-use-an-upholstery-button-maker/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/in-the-works-learning-to-use-an-upholstery-button-maker/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:05:40 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=294 Oh I am so excited about this idea/technique/excuse to buy tools!

Huddled over my computer last weekend, I watched some vids on YouTube on how to make upholstery buttons. I happened to have picked up an old button maker at an estate sale some time ago and had  never really figured out how to use it. It’s a bit of a finicky bugger, but eventually I scrapped out enough buttons to start on a new series. I’ll try to take some photos of the actual button maker and post them up here…

So far I’m not sure what’s going to happen to this skull but it’s going to be mounted on a puffed and pillowed board, set into an old casserole dish. Yumm-E.

And now a little farther along (getting hard to photograph the metallic gold!).

]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/in-the-works-learning-to-use-an-upholstery-button-maker/feed/ 0 I’m not sure what to call this one… http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/im-not-sure-what-to-call-this-one/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/im-not-sure-what-to-call-this-one/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:54:23 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=285 And I have to be the worst photographer on the face of the planet. Technology is supposed to be getting better – I however am not.

This started out as a cougar skull compliments of Paxton’s Gate. If you haven’t been over there, you REALLY REALLY, LIKE DEEP DOWN, REALLY NEED to go.

]]> http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/im-not-sure-what-to-call-this-one/feed/ 0 Mr. Green http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/mr-green/ http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/projects/mr-green/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:51:15 +0000 admin http://www.pickwickandplum.com/blog/?p=280 I got this old farm implement last summer at the Antique Expo. I think it was a piece of an old pulley system. It was mounted as if it were something notable. I however decided it wasn’t nearly notable enough and used it as a base for one of my creations. Wanted to leave some of the metal exposed, and rusty… still working on it a bit I think…

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