March 2013 – Little Green Airstream

Winning!

March 11, 2013November 15, 20161 Comment

At home for the holidays, I’m getting ready to go back to school at Yestermorrow. I’ll be away from the Airstream for a while, concentrating on my schoolwork, so I’m itching to get a little more work done while I’m at home. Being more of a visual / hands-on learner, I thought it might be a good idea to see if there were any online videos of vintage...

First Things First

March 11, 2013November 15, 2016Leave a comment

December 2 – 4, 2011 Here is the Airstream parked at its (temporary) new home in Long Island, NY. Quite a far cry from the idyllic farm life it had in Virginia! But, home it is… safe haven for a makeover & a new life. A couple of days in, I’m excited, but mostly daunted by the huge amount of unfamiliar work I have ahead of me. I...

Mr. Aleister & The Silver Bullet

March 7, 2013November 15, 2016Leave a comment

Late November, 2011. After the Less Is More class, I was more eager than ever to find my very own Airstream. The budget I had in my head just to purchase the basic shell was $3,500 maximum, based loosely on a dollar figure given to me by someone who was doing a similar project. I started scouring local ads on eBay & Craig’s List, and found a few...

Less Is More (Part 3 of 3)

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November, 2011. The Less is More class at Yestermorrow ended with a nearly all-night studio session that left me pretty exhausted. But when the time came to present our final projects, I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the imaginative solutions that my classmates had come up with for their small house projects. My own presentation looked like this: If you zoom into the pictures a little bit,...