Penny Richards' photos

Hat: J. Callanan Headwear Earrings: Polkadot Creations Pendant: Ceramic, made by me and a friend T-shirt: Target Tank: thrifted (with original tags) Skirt: thrifted Charlotte Russe Tights: Hue, on clearance table at Macy's Shoes: thrifted Rockports Watch: Fossil, gift Photo by my kid

Hat: thrifted Choker: crocheted by me Blouse: Love Stitch, bought yesterday from a sales rack Skirt: W, thrifted Shoes: Aerosoles, thrifted Earrings: A gift Photo by my kid

Cardigan: Old Navy, thrifted T-shirt: Thrifted Skirt: Thrifted, floral cotton tiers, no tag Necklace: Thrifted pendant put on a velvet ribbon Shoes: Aerosoles, thrifted Earrings: Thrifted Watch: Fossil, gift Photo by my kid

All half-double crochet, with two colors in each stitch in body. Lined with maroon rayon from an old blouse. The button is vintage, from my great-aunt's box of buttons.

Our family outing for today.

Black Express purse upcycled with paint, markers, paper collage. Image is of the LSE women's field hockey team, sometime in the 1920s, and is from Flickr Commons (see below).

Black Express purse upcycled with paint, markers, paper collage.

Made today from a bunch of small summer squashes we got in the CSA box. (The grapefruit was also from the CSA box.) Very moist!

Made with ordinary yarns and yarn made from plastic bags. Lined with rayon cut from an old blouse--button is also from that blouse.

Made with ordinary yarns and yarn made from plastic bags. Lined with rayon cut from an old blouse.

Made with ordinary yarns and yarn made from plastic bags. Lined with rayon cut from an old blouse--button is also from that blouse.

My trusty old black Doc Martens MJs were scuffed badly, but otherwise wonderful. Solved with an upgrade of paint, collage, and sharpies. Image of English suffragette Christabel Pankhurst from the Library of Commons uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

My trusty old black Doc Martens MJs were scuffed badly, but otherwise wonderful. Solved with an upgrade of paint, collage, and sharpies. Image of English suffragette Christabel Pankhurst from the Library of Commons uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Based on "Breathing While Undocumented," the Linda Greenhouse opinion column in the New York Times website, 4/26/2010, in which she suggests that such pins be worn to protest the new immigration laws in Arizona: "Let the good people of Arizona--and anyone passing through--walk the streets of Tucson and Phoenix wearing buttons that say: I Could Be Illegal." opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/breathing-while-... Made by me, with wooden bases, bar-pin backing, acrylic paint, sharpies, and paper collage.

Postcards made on recycled cardboard, with paint, ink, collage, and sharpies. Image of a Romanian piper at Ellis Island, from the New York Public Library uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Postcards made on recycled cardboard, with paint, ink, collage, and sharpies. Image of printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi from the Smithsonian uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).

Postcards made on recycled cardboard, with paint, ink, collage, and sharpies. Original image of opera singer Margaret Ober is from the Library of Congress (see below).

Tested my freezer-paper stencil on a t-shirt (which I use for experiments, maybe you can tell from the varieties of dye in the background--it used to be a white shirt). Emmeline Pankhurst image from the Library of Congress uploads to Flickr Commons (see below).