Cold Cheeks by Gil Elvgren

Burr. And that's a good way to get chapped lips.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Rod Builders.

Posted by Bob

Class Dismissed - Every Young Boy's Dream

The skirt just had to share this bawdy 1969 Gil Elvgren illustration from our office calendar. Everyone who sees it is having a good laugh.

Very naughty!

Living In The U.S.A.

This weekend is a three day holiday for Americans. If the weather cooperates most of us plan a short trip or picnic. In Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho Memorial Day is usually wet, so a lot of us use the time to finish home improvement projects before summer. Home Depot and Lowes probably turned in good numbers last night. The stores were filled with couples, the wife leading the charge with a list and paint samples, the husband pushing a cart loaded up with supplies. No one was really smiling. As we came through the door the first such couple we saw, we knew. We all had a good laugh. Us gals were sort of apologizing for having to put our foot down, the husbands commiserating over their fate.

Hey, in The Skirt's ideal world, this weekend would be for doing something more like what you see these gals doing. What about you?

Ladies In Red For Valentine's Day

Pin Ups by Gil Elvgren

Vintage Pinup Matchbooks

Found three more vintage matchbook pinups on Etsy.

We'll be adding them to our collection.

Matchbook Pin-ups Now Bathroom Art

Our freshly painted bathroom walls here at the hot rod shop deserved some artwork. The Skirt knew she wanted to use vintage pin-ups, but being a shop bathroom it didn't seem prudent to spend much money or to hang up anything too precious. After looking on the web for some ideas I remembered my father-in-law's old matchbook pin-up girls. Scanning didn't work, they came out grainy when I enlarged them to 8 x 10, so I took a photo of each matchbook against white paper with our Canon Rebel XTi. Framing would have been way too fussy so I slipped them into sheet protectors (saw this in a magazine) and hung them up with paper clips and thumbtacks. Looks great, don't you think and we used something with family history.

1950's - 60's Pinup Matchcovers

Bob's folks are clearing out some clutter and they sent us a box of pinup matchcovers. They know we like that sort of thing around here. The man pictured below, Bob's dad, Paul Bissonette would tuck 'em in his shirt pocket before leaving the Drummond Bar. He remembered at least six times to take them out of his pocket before laundry day. Happy 77th Birthday, Paul!