Author Archives: HiOctane

art room, magnetic paint, Studio

>Studio-licous

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I am feeling really great about our studio right now. So I took a bunch of photos to show it off. This is considered our clean work space. You can see the new magnet paint in full force. The main thing left to do in here is once we get our new electrical power panel in we will install the cable lights in the studio. This will also allow us to be able to use all of our outlets. We put quite a few in and they are installed just below the counter height.
Now that the weather is warming up it is much easier to use this space. Since I do a lot of my work late at night when the little one is asleep. I love being able to work in here. It just feels great.
I will get photos soon of the in progress greenhouse studio it is the dirty work space.

car parts jewelry, eco, green, junk, recycle, reduce, reuse, trash

>Jewelry from Recycled Car Parts

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This is my new favorite piece. It is “Green” jewelry at it’s best. I found this wonderful Impala emblem at a Junque store in Portland, Oregon. I took the kids on a Skateboard/visit family road trip… We had a blast. As soon as I saw this emblem I feel in love. I have had this piece designed in my head for months and I finally had the time to get it done. I want to do lots more. Now I need to go raid a few junkyards.

I am loving this fun recycle direction. Happy New Year

costume jewelry, jewelry lamp, junque, rhinestones, vintage lamp

>Wow – A Jewelry Lamp

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>So everyone has a favorite thing at their Grandparent’s house. Mine was the lamp below. I remember the first time I saw it in the back guest room. I thought wow, this is so unique. I had never seen anything quite like it at the time. I love old jewelry so naturally a lamp completely covered in old shiny sparkley things would draw me in. I asked my Grandma Mirene about the interesting piece. She said that a friend made the piece. I said well if you ever decide to get rid of it I would really like it.
So the day finally came last year, and I was going to be driving through Grandma’s neighborhood in the NW and she said I should come pick up my lamp. Well I was so excited about my new lamp. I don’t really have any other lamps. And this was not your ordinary lamp this was the holy grail of lamps for the jewelry maker. So now that we are moving into a new house with some room. My favorite lamp will finally be on display. I am planning to make a very funky, outrageous shade for it. I think it deserves the best. Along with the lamp my grandma included a letter telling my the history of this great piece.

Bunko, Car rings, Corey Miller, House of Kasai, Kat von d, Kevin Bacon, LA Ink, Lester kasai, Powerflex 5, Rat Rod, Sterling silver, Tattooes

>LA Ink’s Corey Miller

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>So you have all seen him on TV, one of the star’s of LA Ink, Corey Miller. Do you remember playing 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon? Okay well here is our connection, our good friends Jill and Mark Cole, also neighbors and fellow bunko players, along with lovers of Retro style. Well, Mark plays bass in the band Powerflex 5 which is also the band that Corey plays drums with along with Steve Alba. So Mark introduced us to Corey up in Hollywood at a filming for one of the LA Ink shows. Another side note our oldest son Nolan is sponsored by Lester Kasai and Corey did the graphics for Lester’s new pro-model boards, with the Koi fish, very cool…
So we presented one of our Mercury car grille rings to Corey in hopes that it would end up on camera in one upcoming episodes. So watch for it. If you see it before us let us know. I have also asked Corey for a photo of him wearing it in front of the Kasai boards.