What happens when your HLP does burlesque...

What do you get any self respecting vivacious woman in her prime for her birthday? No, not those ultra sexy Louboutin heels of her dreams, because if you can afford a pair of $1200 fucking dollar heels, you're sure as hell going to buy those bitches for yourself. Am I right?! No, since she is on the up and coming track of burlesque dancing, I am making her a pair of rhinestone Misfits pasties Here's a mock up I did at work with a Post-it and here they are cut out of fabric. I will post more as I progress p.s. HLP=hetero life partner

Zombie Geisha-RIP

Awhile ago I made a little zombie geisha sticker for the top tube of my current commuter bike. Well, it was a fun ride, but the other night I had a very wet bike ride home, and needles to say, she's not so pretty anymore...
Before:

After:

More than I can chew?

I've got a project bike I'm building, jade green, ivory lugs, leather accents...and me being me(please read: can't do anything easy), has decided to make a leather tooled top bar pad/protector thingy ma-bob.

It's probably been over 10 years since I've done any real leather tooling...that being said, I think I may be a bit over zealous in the tooling design I've come up with:


I am hoping to trace it to leather this weekend, will update the progress

my work place

really is quite the sty

and why is it that when I don't need my naked Andrea subject pic, she pops up...but when I'm ready to work on her, I can't find her anywhere