Moonshine Washingline

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: here’s to one wonderful year after another! Two Thousand and Shine, ohoooo yeah I can feel it. Things have been prolific and profound and challenging and fulfilling.

final minutes of 2008 on a bridge in bangkok

I’m working on more hats to take to New Zealand (in 2 weeks, here we come!), will post them when they’re ready of course. In the meantime, I can hardly wait to get back to my stencils and paints that I had to leave behind in NZ so I’ve been working on a “secret superhero” underwear range.

And because today happens to be Tuesday January 20, 2009, here’s a sneak preview…

Well so much for all that hooha getting the hats on etsy…they ALL sold at the last Last Thursday. (Yesssss). Time and time again my attempts to keep ‘virtual life’ up to date with ‘real life’ are foiled. And yet I graciously accept the defeat, because the truth is, real life is just too much FUN. Especially when the gang is in town. Check it out, some “side projects” for the T-Rex wedding.

in the midst of a gift-bag mega mission

a gold vinyl disco rex

pimping out bicycles

whipping up carlo rossi sangria

arranging dahlias

and the hydrangea wreath! (note the rex behind the bride)

And Last Thursday, with special guest stall sharers, Mayana and Billie Montana, featuring jewelry designed by everybody’s favourite tattoo artist, Keiran.

note the light

goodbye u.s.of.a sale!

and an alberta street sunset

Anyway, this means I don’t have to carry any hats with me all the way to Indonesia, where we are heading in just 10 days time from San Fran. For now, still making our way down the state of Oregon, basking in family time, deep reds and bright yellows, apple crisps and peewee soccer games. But already itching to get on my mum’s sewing machine in the southern hemisphere.

Till next time!

As promised…i finally have an etsy site! check it out here. And I have more hats in the works, so stay tuned!

ps. don’t forget, Last Thursday is this week, and I’ll be having my Goodbye U.S.of.A clearance sale

dear worldwideweb

it’s been over a year! and i can’t tell you how often how i’ve planned on getting back on top of my documentation, announcements and other such craft related reports, when everything just picks up again so quickly that it’s impossible stay up to date.

so since i left new zealand in may ‘07, moonshine washingline has turned into a totally portable and pretty much hat- exclusive series of extravaganzas that have had me borrowing sewing machines and collecting, transporting and transforming fabric everywhere between indonesia, hawaii, and now oregon! for the past few months I’ve been On Tour all over the states with my husband, who plays music under the name Jacob Perkins & The Nobody, and I’ve been keeping an online tour diary, Champ Tours the New World, so if you’re interested you can check that out. otherwise hopefully soon i’ll fill you in on the months before then, when we worked as permaculture gardeners on Maui for four months and all the underwater adventures we got up to, or before that when we went on a bit of an epic bicycle tour from Thailand, to Laos, to Vietnam, to Cambodia…oh how time flies when you’re having fun!

now i’m in portland and since i gave so many people the address of this website yesterday at the Alberta Street Fair, i thought, well maybe people will actually start checking this place out again and i BETTER make it worth their time! so hello! it was wonderful to get such great feedback yesterday, the fair was beautiful (AH! love this city), i can’t believe how sunburnt i am, AND…stay tuned because over the next couple of days i’m going to make the hats i have left available for sale online (!!!!) and i’ll be making some more in bigger sizes.

also, as i may have already told you, i will be in the u.s.of.a until the beginning of October, so if you’d like to make a custom order, please do let me know as soon as you can! the sooner the better because things are going to get a little wild pretty soon here as soon as all my best pals show up to converge for our friends’ wedding. but i would love to make you a hat. i love making hats when i know exactly who they’re going to. it’s like writing someone a good letter versus writing a blog out into the world wide web.

anyway, it’s good to be back! and i do plan on making one last Portland appearance at this month’s Last Thursday, which will be this year’s last Last Thursday (till next Summer!) so i hope to see you there. and don’t forget to e-mail me asap if you’d like me to make you a hat, moonshinewashingline@gmail.com

xoh

ps. some photos from my latest goings-ons…

For those of you who don’t know what Last Thursday is, it is when, on the last Thursday night of every month (before it gets cold and dark and rainy), some 30 blocks of Alberta street in NE Portland is overcome with artists of all sorts who set up on the sidewalk. Recently the city has decided to just shut down the whole street at this time so it’s turned into QUITE a party in the street, with all kinds of characters on multi-tiered bicycles, stilt walkers, capoeira doers, musicians, dancers, the works. It’s all kinds of fun. I did my first Last Thursday just days after arriving in the continental U.S., with some hats I had made in Hawaii, and sold nearly all of them! The paintings you see are by my friend Asa Kennedy, who as you also can see, is pretty damn awesome.

Last Thursday in May with Asa and his arte

Asa also paints on beautiful pearl buttoned cowboy shirts

meet my model Taylor sneaking a high life

pps. The Alberta Street Fair is a little more organised and took place all day this Saturday, a plum peachy Saturday. Check it out.

could i have asked for a better coloured background wall?

rose city paraders

beautiful bumbershoots

and then i saw some really tall people with really long pants

and then the band set up right in front of me

13 hats for 13 Auckland Morris Dancers – hope to soon have photo of these in action!

Attention NZ residents! the following union caps (for women, men, girls and boys) and all goods below will be departing the country on May 17th.  So if you want something, act now! E-mail me (moonshinewashingline@gmail.com) or come to Craftwerk TOMORROW (may 3rd, 6pm) at St Kevins arcade on K road.  It’s free and full of handmade treasures.

 My “Goodbye NZ Sale” will include union caps, swoopneck singlets, glass jujube bead necklaces and wonderpants, and feature handmade lace lingerie fashioned by my dear friend Miss Jeninopolous. 

Attention Melbourne residents!  know any potential market places in the area?

ps. note the hat stand sculptures made lovingly by my lovely husband

 I’ve made almost 20 new hats over the past few weeks and will be posting photos of them over the next few days so watch this space.  But for now here are the first 4…note the ear flaps and wind flaps (and the grapevines in the background, taken on our current “back porch”)