The best job ever and the coolest friends that I ever had were when I worked at a restaurant called the Heartthrob Cafe. It was in downtown St Paul, Minnesota and was so fun! Today we had a get together to catch up and reminisce. This is one of the many good things about facebook, finding people that you wished you never lost contact with. So, today my post is the buttons that I made for this event. We had 'flair' that was a lot more fun and cool than a restaurant chain that I will not name here. We danced and sang birthday songs. The girls wore poodle skirts and we did all of this while wearing in line skates. We were a crazy family and honestly this was one of the best times in my life. Ahhh...memories. In the time spent there somehow the button machine came into my possession. In honor of our gathering, of course I had to make pins. Here are also two murals that I painted at the restaurant. Let me tell you they were tricky! The murals are on glass and when
When I was a kid, my mom used to take ceramic classes, it was a popular thing to do in the seventies. This type of statue called the smiley were everywhere and came in every theme possible. Most of the statues were of a sports theme and people painted them for high school grads and for sports fans in the appropriate team colors. There were also ones depicting different professions or hobbies. This statue is a housewife and definitely not a modern portrayal of women now days. This one I found at the Goodwill awhile ago partially painted. Originally I was going to just paint it in normal colors but the other day a better idea came to mind. The idea was to paint it in a random pattern but I wasn't sure what would work. After painting it in a solid color, I decided to use Van Gogh type of brush strokes. It is very different and I don't think that anyone in the seventies would have come up with this for their smiley.
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