Our 2020 Handmade/Re-gifting Christmas
This year has been as hard on us as it has been for a lot of people, so my family did a lot of handmade gifts and re-gifting of old well loved things. Here are my 3 favorite things that were given (either to me or from me).
1. Flat File
As I was growing up, my mom got this Stacor Flat File. I don’t remember when she got it, or where, I just remember it always being there, full of my sisters’ little kid art. I have always wanted one of my own and had made a mental note to track one down, that is until my mom called and told me that hers was on her way to my house. I freaked. Joe and I immediately went to Lowes, got mineral oil and lavender spray paint to clean and paint it and tore this beast apart. This hulking cabinet went from the rust covered gray it used to be to the cute colorful thing that was missing from my studio you can see here!
2. Juggalo Nativity Set
So obviously I’m going to talk about this thing I made for Joe. No one tell my super Christian Grandma that I did this lol. I figure it’s ok because Juggalos are just a big family of cool people anyway, tell me Jesus wouldn’t be down with the clowns. I kept seeing a Juggalo Nativity floating around online, and I knew I had to make it for him.
I started by painting their faces with a couple of basecoats of white, and then with my tiniest brush I started painting their facepaint. Then after I posted it, everyone kept telling me they needed Faygo, or it wasn’t a real gathering! So I went and found some teeny little bottles for Barbie dolls and painted the word Faygo on each one, of course Sweet Juggalo Jesus baby had to have the orange one, it’s the best one.
3. A horse anatomy book from 1865
My mom really out did herself this year by not giving me one family heirloom, but two. She has had this Horse Anatomy book since she was a teenager, and for my entire life I have thought it was the coolest shit ever, because of one page. You can tell it’s super old because the skeleton has a nose. It is so weird that I decided I am going to redraw it and feature it on a shirt soon, I just love it so much! If you want to know why I am the way I am, look no further, here’s why. For almost 200 years this bad boy has been popping a wheelie waiting for someone to say “HEY THIS DESERVES TO BE A SHIRT" AND THAT SOMEONE WAS ME.
“HEY THAT SHOULD BE A SHIRT”
-Rachelle