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pins & buttons

heyyy! it's the fonz! remember when this was cool? was it mork from ork with his rainbow suspenders with buttons that started the button craze in the 70's? i know it's what started toxic on her first collection, pins & buttons, & she also wore them on rainbow suspenders ~

toxic herself with a friend in the swimming pool ~

one of the first items i posted here at the lost & found was toxic's first button.. i'll be posting a glut of vintage pins & buttons all through august ~

then there were school spirit buttons, these are from toxic's jr high ~

i was friends with the kid who designed this tumbleweeds themed button for our school, he got permission from the artist, tk ryan.. back when native americans were still mascots & referred to as indians ~

vintage snoopy pin ~

as kids we all lined up & waited for hours to see 'the hulk' at a local mall, thinking it'd be lou ferigno himself.. they said he was giving out signed pictures.. i still remember how disappointed my little brother was to find out it was only a guy in a hulk costume handing out these pins! ~

now this vintage rainbow happy face pin has a different significance ~

vintage peace sign ~

toxic's high school ~

high school camp button ~

possibly toxic's favorite old happy face button, non-conformist happy face ~

vintage little rascals, alfalfa & butch ~

bren

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yay! it's xmas eve & we have snow, like much of the country right now ~

& the ghost closet antifashion show continues ~

first i thought i'd explain why i'm always wearing pants with all kinds of pockets & stuff on them ~

as an early collector, toxic (my inner kid) loved her jeans with multiple pockets all over them for storing coin machine trinkets, seashells or interesting pebbles, & later we often wore cheap army surplus fatigues, also with many pockets, back in the days of expensive designer jeans, so our antifashion tastes began early in life.. i'd also wear a fatigue hat covered in pins & buttons ~

& have i mentioned how in elementary school my best friend & i formed an emu club? we loved emus & we would yell 'emu!' from every strange place we could find, whether it was on the upside-down part on the loop trainer ride at knott's berry farm, or while jumping in the school carnival bounce-house.. toxic was always drawing them, she called them emus & juancs (spanish for honk!) ;) ~

so i made sure i had my own emu shirt before it became popular ~

i've always felt like an odd bird ;) ~

here's today's bit, with a bunch of cool enamel pins i've posted about before here at the lost & found (just click on pins & buttons in the category list in the sidebar) ~

& a sticker! <3 adding my prayers for emmanuel the emu who is still recovering from bird flu, hoping for a full recovery.. 'gone away is the bluebird (twitter?) here to stay is a new bird.. emmanuel!' ~

bren

ghost closet antifashion ~ sad ghosts & bad kitties

more ghost closet antifashion today with sad ghosts & bad kitties ~

i've posted about the sad ghost club here before.. i've been known online as ghost forever since i started my ghost gallery & ghost blog so many years ago, so i kinda feel like i was the original sad ghost? p.s. yes i love pants with lots of pockets! like these buckley jeans from dolls kill ;) ~

this old painting i painted decades ago is called escape or toxic escapes, it now hangs in my room which i just love, toxic's old grand dream of running away & rowing away along a moonlit river finally came true when you think about it? when we packed up everything & came up here to portland 17 years ago & never looked back, & i didn't have to say goodbye to my kitties afterall, we took them all with us <3 ~

 

also i picked up this blind style mystery horror cat pin recently ~

there are several different ones ~

which bad kitty did i get? ~

oh my! :o ~

watch out for this bad boy! ~

back to the ghost closet ~

another misbehaving kitty ~

nice & soft & comfortable actually <3 ~

more antifashion ahead ~

bren

ghost closet antifashion continues ~ emily strange

watch out! it's the return of the ghost closet antifashion show! ~

winter update 2022 ~

& the return of 50 something emily strange ;) ~

cool goth girl pants, shirts, gloves ~

hat with fuzzy kitty ears ~

pin ~

& scary xmas pjs :D ~

from the ghost closet ~

hot topics & dolls kill ~

caution: no makeup zone! ~

more emily strange to come, or just click on emily in the category list for more anytime ~

& look for more ghost closet antifashion in the days ahead ~

bren