The Girls of Summer are here!

These darlings are the fantasy girls of my bizarro summer dreams. In other words, if I were a teenage boy, these would be the girls I followed around, secretly pining for, all summer vacation long. They'd be replaced with more suitable crushes come fall, like the new girl in study hall, but for the summer they would be perfect and all mine. Amazing beauties like the pearl diver (who wouldn't fall for a deep sea diver with a knife at her throat?), the magician's lovely assistant (post failed illusion and still smiling), the forever unattainable 2 headed girl next door who shoots lasers from both her left eyes, the silent movie star who spent the entire summer pouting in an orange blossom hat and the secret assasin bullet bride! I realize it's time to grow up and put these childish notions to rest and am offering them for sale in the store now so that they can be yours for a lifetime instead of just one steamy dreamy summer.

Heaven's to Etsy!

Folks, I've opened a store on etsy for my "craftier" itmes (ie. things that I wouldn't necessarily put in a gallery show but that are awesome in their own crafty right). I will always post something here for those interested in this type of work so that you'll know when there's new pieces going up in that store. These decorative vintage bird trays are the first items I'm adding, yeah, I'm still on a bird kick...take a closer look at heathergabel.etsy.com
Most of the pieces shown here are up, those that aren't yet will be soon.