Used the last of the Audreii Two’s to make a terrifying headpiece and hair clip.
I had a lot of silk leaves and plastic plants left over from the potted Alien Venus Flytraps and fascinators, so I used ’em up! This moment in time is all about using all my hoarded materials.
I had planned to make the headpiece and donate it to a fundraiser or raffle for Berlin queer performers.
Now, of course, I can’t imagine when in-person raffles or fundraising auctions will happen again. But I am filling a box with things that can be donated to raise money for the incredibly hard-hit performers of our city, who have lost all their income in a swift stroke.
And when it’s time, these wonderful things can be sold, donated or raffled to help my beloved Berlin nightlife folx, whose inspiration has made the last years the most fulfilling of my life.
The Carnivorous Venus Flytrap hairclip uses a very special piece of recycled material.
In the second half of the Oughts in San Francisco I wore my hair and eyebrows bright red.
It was part of my brand, how everyone knew me and spotted me drawing at an event. I’m only five four, but the hair and flowers piled on top of my head helped me stand out!
For special events I added feathers and tulle and tiny tophats, but for everyday (or I should say, everynight) going out I wore two double-flower red dahlia hairclips.
I have no idea where I got them, probably Target or Claire’s, but I wore them whenever I went anywhere for five years.
You can see me wearing them in the photo above, taken at Chicken John’s warehouse in the Mission in 2010. I was working on a balsa wood Bettie Page for Balsa Man.
Here I am wearing them when photographed by Libby Bulloff in Seattle in 2009!
Then somehow I lost one in 2010, while having sex in my car outside a SOMA goth club with a bouncer half my age.
I wore the other til I went blue-haired again in 2013 or so, and I kept it, afterwards, because I had this idea I’d use it for something. It went in the shipping container with all the craft materials, and arrived in Berlin, and has been sitting in a craft drawer.
I found the thing to use it for!
It came out so well! This is a pretty special item, and if the virus doesn’t get me I’ll offer it up for sale worldwide whenever it’s safe to ship things again.
