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Mick got started on the bedroom ceiling almost immediately after our return from Washington. Our friendâs, Tom and Joel, had a loft full of mahogany luan in their garage that they had donated to us for our project. We knew we would incorporate the mahogany somehow, we just needed to figure out the right place. Nobody likes a cold bedroom, and with bare aluminum lining our bedroom walls, we needed to warm up the space up somehow. The â inch mahogany was the perfect material for the job. Mick did all of the math, something I am totally incapable of doing, and built a jig to trim the wood down from rectangular planks into triangular panels. Many of the panels had been damaged from storage, and random cuts made through their sides, so selecting suitable planks was difficult. We flattened each piece by misting them with water and laying various heavy objects on top. He secured the panels to the fiberglass end cap with Wilsonart 500 contact cement, and braced them with wood jacks until dry. Â The panels overlap and give the ceiling a sunburst effect. The final result is beautiful! I tested multiple brands/colors of stain and overcoat on a scrap piece of the wood. Â We have all but decided to do a simple coat of polyurethane to seal the wood.
On July 22nd, we buttoned up Vivian for a trip up north.
As Iâve mentioned several times before, Mick travels for work. Â His company, Lumalaser, created the laser light show on the Grand Coulee Dam, among other high profile shows. Â Mick had to take a work trip to run some maintenance on the Coulee Dam show, and on this rare occasion, I got to go with. Â Myself, along with my partner Joel, recently opened an Etsy shop to sell our vast collection of vintage clothing and housewares (www.etsy.com/shop/queenmakervintage).
I chose to take this much needed break from reality to scour vintage stores for inventory, while Mick slaved away all hours of the night and day to bring one of the most beloved laser light shows in the country to the public. Â
On our way back to Eugene, we decided to head to the Olympic Peninsula.  I had never been, and had been hearing wonderful things about Port Townsend. With no real plan in mind, we took the scenic route from Grand Coulee.  We stopped in Leavenworth, WA, a weird little tourist trap of a town that someone in the 60s decided should be built to look like a Bavarian village.  Whoever that was, was brilliant. The place was crawling with tourists! Men in Bavarian lederhosen were playing tubas in the square, and lines were out the door at almost every shop.  We managed to squeeze ourselves into a âDanish Bakeryâ hoping for actual Danish pastries, but were sorely disappointed by the selection. Iâm not sure anyone in that bakery has ever been to Denmark. We made it to Port Townsend by dusk, and quickly realized we had nowhere to stay.  Mick and I both have friends that live in town, but locals tend to escape the influx of summer tourists and go on fishing excursions in Alaska⌠both of our friends included.  We finally gave up all hope of finding shelter... echoing a phrase that I hear often when I travel, âitâs never like this.â I am the Eeyore of travel.
The entire peninsula was out of rooms, and its campgrounds filled to the brim- it was jazz fest in Port Townsend. Eventually living up to its reputation as the most beautiful phrase in the English language, we ended up at The Cellar Door. Unbeknownst to us, our weekend fate was about to be sealed.Â
Mick and I decided that if we were to get drunk enough, sleeping in our rented Prius could be tolerable... at best.  Two drinks into our plan, a woman approached me and asked to roll a cigarette. I told her, âsure, you can roll a cigarette⌠if you have a couch?â  She did have a couch. And a guest room. And an empty cabin on her land.  Her name is Yvonne, and she ended up knowing Mickâs friend, and since we were on a roll, I asked her about mine. She began to laugh, and explained that the empty cabin in which we were about to stay for two nights, used to be the home of my friend, Bailey. The world is truly amazing sometimes.Â
With our newfound kinship, we parted ways for a little while. Mick and I needed to eat now that we could ditch our plan of copious amounts of alcohol on empty stomachs. We ate seafood at this swanky restaurant that served late night food. They sat us in the back, away from all eyes. I believe I was wearing sweatpants. Â After our meal, we headed out to Yvonneâs place. Â The property was immensely beautiful. We met Yvonneâs husband, Ryan, and their two children. Â They are such a lovely family. Â That night we had a fire, we got acquainted with one another, and howled at the moon. The next day, the hunt was on for cool boat parts to install in Vivian!Â
Port Townsend used to have a ship wrecking yard, which we were sad to find out that it had closed. We checked around the local junk shops, and Mick fell in love. With a sink. We purchased a beautiful cast iron sink with a high backsplash. It may end up being too heavy for Vivian, but we are certainly going to try to balance it out. Â We also found an old shipâs porthole that we plan to install in the bathroom. Â Our final purchase was some incredible old Deco hat hooks. They look as if they were once part of a hall tree, now to be a part of our closet. Â Overall, it was a productive hunt, but we didnât stop there...Â
Ryan and Yvonne knew of a sweet dumpster diving spot. Â Before we embarked to said dumpster, I had a bit of a mishap with a rope swing. Heights not being my adrenaline rush of choice, against my better judgement I climbed onto the rope. Mick had just bet me $5 that he would be the one to hurt himself, after he was safely back on the ground, I should have taken the hint from the universe. Barely hanging on, Mick pushed me higher, and higher. Fight or Flight kicked in, and I freaked out, planting my feet into the ground as I made the 8 ft swoops to the ground. My right leg planted with a twist, and I felt a pop. I knew this was not going to end well. After Mick finally helped me stop the swing, without any grace whatsoever, I launched myself off of the swing. After a few steps I knew I had seriously injured myself. Â I pushed on, and we took the hike to Ryanâs dumpster spot.Â
Our efforts were mostly fruitless, less a new cord for Mickâs angle grinder, but the experience was worth it.  We ended our outing with a couple of beers at the local tavern. A hole in the wall place, similar to what an American Legion looks like, clientele and all. Mick and Ryan shot some pool, while Yvonne and I chatted at the bar. The bartender was making beef stroganoff for dinner, or something of that nature. By the end of the night, I couldnât walk. My right knee had swollen up to the size of a grapefruit, with nice bright purple bruising on the side.  Again, we sat by the fire while Ryan serenaded us until the wee hours of the morning.  Monday morning we said our goodbyes, and headed off to Eugene⌠or so we thought. We ended up back in Grand Coulee for another couple of days, but other than my knee, I wasnât complaining.Â
I had my knee looked at when we returned to Eugene. Just your old run of the mill LCL tear, with a side of blown meniscus. Physical therapy for 12 weeks and a sweet jointed brace.
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Sorry for the break, readers! Mick and I have been going non-stop it seems for the last month, or so, but that doesnât mean we neglected Vivian!

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Some more photos of aluminium panels.
Method 2:
Mick would like me to start off this post by saying that this was his idea. Due to my gullibility from reading Airstream forums, I thought that stripping the panels in place would be far easier and faster. Â Luckily, I can admit when Iâm wrong. I was totally wrong. I was convinced that the panels would not line up with the rivet holes and it would result in ugly, crooked, hole-y walls. Â This is not the case. You flip the wall panels and install them on the opposite side, so the cuts and holes do match up.
You begin by drilling out all of the rivets along the panel edges, there are usually anywhere from 20 to 1,497. Sometimes, the panels are also glued in place, an added bonus. After the panels are removed, you hammer down any remaining ânipplesâ created by the rivets. Â
Begin sanding with 150 grit sandpaper mounted on a finishing sander, not a palm sander. With a palm sander you would end up with the same spinny circles all over. The vibration of the finishing sander allows for straight invisible sanding lines. Â The 150 grit paper takes all of the paint off of the back surface and roughs it up for the next step: 400 grit. Â Wipe the whole surface down with acetone before continuing.
400 grit sandpaper smooths out the surface. Wipe down with acetone. The acetone allows for the imperfections to be more visible. Next, move to 600 grit. This is where the surface begins to smooth out. Â You could move on to the buffing process after this grit, but why stop there?
Mick used an 800 grit sandpaper, and is considering finishing the sanding process with 1200. He finished the panels off with a 4 micron buffing pad to polish the aluminum down to a mirror like finish.
Mick got slightly caught up in the Airstream forum as well. Â He went out and bought a kit for his angle grinder to bring out the original aluminium finish. These kits do NOT work. The idea doesnât make a whole lot of sense if you stop and think about it. Â Aluminum is a fairly soft metal- Â an angle grinder spins at a wicked high rpm... Those two things don't mix. Â The end result is a surface with spinny circular âknotsâ all over it, or cut through aluminum. Mick tried the kit for a brief interval before pushing it aside for this method.
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Before I go any further, and into more details of the winning method number 2, I should backtrack a little. I realized that in earlier posts, you followed me through painting the bedroom area- where we are now stripping off all of the vinyl. We decided against finishing painting because of... you guessed it! The sticky amber colored ooze that the walls were emitting. We have decided to keep the fiberglass end cover painted, and the remainder of the walls shiny, lovely aluminium. We are definitely hammering a pattern into the side panels as well⌠more on that later.
Method 1:
I used to restore vintage furniture. Something I have always had fun doing, and sometimes I even made a profit. Â So, I had a surplus of Citristip left over from these projects. Â First, I applied the Citristrip to a part of the interior skin that had already been exposed to the aluminium in hopes that it would help the strip soak into the vinyl. Â Citristip does not work for this. Donât even bother. Seriously. Â Nothing happened, it just dries up into this crusty peach colored spooge (I warned you I will have no verbal eloquence). Also, being a dummy, I poured the Citristrip into a styrofoam cup, and walked away from it. Needless to say, it melted into a sticky, stinky pile of orange goo all over the trailer floor. Â Use metal containers for these products.
I then purchased a container of Klean Strip Premium Stripper. Â The baddest stripper that you can purchase at your local hardware store. Â Sheâs a bad bitch, but not bad enough. Â To keep safety involved in this whole thing: please, wear a respirator and rubber gloves if you are going to use these chemical products. Â I wore shorts the first day of this and got two little droplets on my legs, it will burn you. Â It hurts, and wiping it off with a rag will not alleviate the pain, you need to wash it off.
I applied the Klean Strip to the vinyl wall, working my way from the base of the wall upwards. If you read the can, it urges you to do it this way so the fumes donât pool near the floor. It does work.  The vinyl bubbles up and you can wedge a 5-in-one tool under the bubble and lift up the vinyl⌠until you can't anymore.  This happens over and over.  You get so excited, because an area of about two inches starts to lift and stretch like a deflated balloon, and almost as quickly as it starts, it stops.  A big fuck you. Apply more strip to the area and wait the elapsed 15 minutes.  Do not let the strip dry on you either.  It will mimic the wet product and bubble, but forget about pulling any of it off. It must stay moist for any progress to happen.  There is a trick to make all of this easier, as read online.  Apply the strip, cover the area in plastic wrap, wait 15-20 minutes, apply again and wait.  Once 20 minutes has gone by, remove the plastic and it should peel right off.  Admittedly, this does work better.  I even took it one step further. I lightly scored the area with a utility knife and applied the stip.  I wish I would have began with this method and I might not be writing this so passionately against this method. We didn't even finish the two panels we attempted this method on, ate through an entire $10 can of Klean Strip, and when you are done removing the vinyl, you still have to remove the adhesive that lies underneath.  It can be removed rather easily with the Klean Strip, or mineral spirits.
In conclusion:
If you try to remove the vinyl with a stripping agent, definitely use the method of applying plastic wrap to the wet area and wait. Â This will take a long time, and your fingers will be broken from grunting and forcefully tearing the vinyl. Â You'll spend a bunch of money on the stripping agent as well. Â I would recommend purchasing the most toxic product ever, also produced by Klean Strip, their Aircraft paint remover. Â It'll save you a bunch of time, and give you and your children cancer.
Now for the Experiment...

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Step 9,554: Vinyl.
I am completely perplexed. I read a lot about Airstream renovation.  I'll read anything, personal blogs, Pinterest articles, forums⌠anythingairstreamallthetime. The simplest of tasks on these forums are painted as these nightmarish, painstaking, impossible feats, and then it comes to interior vinyl removal.  A complete conundrum. These people who I've been complaining about all along yarn over the fact that vinyl removal is simple, often the easiest part of airstream renovation. I have no verbal eloquence when it comes to this: it f-u-c-k-i-n-g sucks. It sucks, and I'm writing this with crippled up hands from trying to execute this process properly.
We've even gone as far as using this terrible process as an experiment, hopefully to teach people the ugly truth of interior vinyl removal. Â We have attempted two methods for the removal:Â
1) Using the recommended products for stripping the vinyl with a variety of tried-and-true âtips and tricks.â
2) Removing the interior skins, flipping them over and removing, by way of sanding, the opposing coated side of the vinyl. Â
Spoiler Alert: Iâll tell you right now, flipping them over has proven to be far less annoying and has won the contest.
I blazed through removal of the kitchen pantry shelving with very minor cursing. We decided to leave the refrigerator in place for now. Again, a single, hidden rivet got the best of me in a near curse free pantry eviction. Â Streams of obscenities flowed through my mouth like smoke through a chimney as I wrenched on the top panel. Â Luckily, one of the first things we ever removed from Vivian was the overhead compartment above the pantry shelves. Â Otherwise, it surely could've been worse.
** Mick was mad that there were no pictures of me on the blog... so here is a super flattering one that he took.
Mick came home from work and immediately started sawing through the floor. I almost puked. Â He had been wanting to remove the subfloor for quite some time to reveal the gray and black water tanks. Â He was hell-bent on moving the bathroom for a while, and after seeing the size of the tanks I think his need has been quelled. Donât get me wrong, heâs still pissed about it! âItâs a stupid design,â heâs still adamant about that one. Â Our only option appears to be switching the bathroom to the opposite side, but why bother.
My dad came over to help me take down the closets.  There were 3 closet doors, and an overhead, 3 door compartment.  One of the simple truths of working on an airstream is that the heads of the rivets get stuck on your drill bit, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. My way to remedy the situation is to put the drill in reverse and use pliers to remove the rivet heads⌠onto the floor.  I used to try to remove them with my fingers, but often they are hot, and I got tired of having little tiny, deep, papercut like slashes all over my fingers.  My dad immediately scolded me for this action.  âWhat I would do, is put all of those rivet heads in a wastepaper basket, or something. What if you are walking around barefoot in here? Itâs better to have a clean work area.â Â
He is, of course, right on many levels. Â The one level he is missing however, is no one in their right mind would ever walk barefoot through this Airstream! Â Itâs a mess, and full of little tiny sharp things all over the floor, and probably hepatitis. I continued to deposit my rivet heads onto the floor, but I did sweep up afterward. Â My dad often echos through my subconscious. âWhat if my shoes magically evaporated and I had to walk barefoot through here?â Â Anyway, closets are gone and my shoes havenât evaporated yet.
As many of you know, Craigslist is both the biggest blessing, and the most disappointing selling forum ever.  I posted all of the parts that we were discarding from our Airstream on Craigslist.  We hadnât finished our demo yet, so I didnât list any prices or specific items that we had.  I eventually received a call from a woman a few towns over.  She had purchased an already gutted Airstream for her husband as a hunting trailer.  She wanted to outfit the trailer in original parts.  Parts I possessed. We arranged a meeting, and they brought a trailer to haul away the parts.  We had agreed on a price over the phone.  You know how the rest of the story goes⌠The Craigslistee shows up with a minimum of $50 less than what you had agreed upon.  Sometimes they show up with no money at all.  Our situation was the latter.  They wanted to set up a payment plan⌠gah! We were obviously annoyed, so miraculously the womanâs mother had some cash on her.  They gave us the cash and promised to pay us the rest of the agreed amount at a future date.  We told them donât worry about it. They will get you every time.

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We tore out a bunch of plumbing, and Mick got obsessed with taking out the subfloor to look at the gray water tank. end. of. story.
For a few days, I puttered around doing menial tasks again. Â Meanwhile, Mick built this rather impressive contraption to measure, and 3D model, the entire Airstream. Â It took a few days, but we have a 100% accurate scale 3D model of Vivian. Â Sheâs a 31ft Airstream Sovereign Land Yacht... if anyone is interested in purchasing plans, Iâm sure we could work something out. Â Itâs an untapped market.