Announcement
Kheels is the on-line Etsy home of artist Billy Kheel. Come marvel (and shop) the unique stuff that comes out of this guys head and gets translated into felt and stuffing! Also visit his website: https://bkheel.com/
instagram: @bkheel
inquiries [!at] bkheel.com
kheels.com
twitter: @bkheel1
https://www.facebook.com/bkheelart
Announcement
Kheels is the on-line Etsy home of artist Billy Kheel. Come marvel (and shop) the unique stuff that comes out of this guys head and gets translated into felt and stuffing! Also visit his website: https://bkheel.com/
instagram: @bkheel
inquiries [!at] bkheel.com
kheels.com
twitter: @bkheel1
https://www.facebook.com/bkheelart
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Reviews
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Treasure on Mar 11, 2016
5 out of 5 starsYou haven't known true foot happiness OR been truly sad footed until you have one of these custom pillows! I purchased two of them. The attention to detail is amazing. I could only be happier if I owned the actual sign, but then I wouldn't be able to hug it like these pillows!
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HobbitKitten on May 29, 2015
5 out of 5 starsI love it. I just couldn't believe that not only does this exist in plushie form, but that anyone would put enough thought and detail into it to make a tiny little scope! So cute! And the kind of detail that's important to an incorrigible nit-picker like me. It's even more adorable in person, and that's saying something. Shipped on time, no complaints.
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Cunningham on Dec 30, 2014
5 out of 5 starsShipper sent it to alternate address upon my last minute request. Thank-you! Baby's first gun was a big hit!
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hromayor on Dec 4, 2014
1 out of 5 starsTerrible quality, small and completely overpriced. Very disappointed.
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CATXNJ on Oct 22, 2014
5 out of 5 starsThese hats are awesome. So much so I had him do a custom one for 'Vocabulary Hat Day'. He did a F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C job. He really outdid himself. The quality of the design is great, so if you are on the fence, jump over! Great Job, I love the hat!!!
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Carla on Sep 30, 2014
5 out of 5 starsThe one day I turned the sad foot around to face my house everything went wrong! I'm sticking with the happy foot from now on. I love these pillows! They bring me joy.
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Carla on Sep 30, 2014
5 out of 5 starsThis makes me happy every time I see it in my house and makes me nostalgic for LA. Fabulous pillow!
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Jane on Sep 30, 2014
5 out of 5 starsI ask you this, where else can you find kickass orange volcano hats? Billy was wonderful to work with, accommodated a special order without issue, shipped the hats before the anticipated delivery date, and the hats are perfect. Thanks for a great buyer experience!
About bkheel
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Billy Kheel Photo by: Hussein Katz
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Billy Kheel Photo by: Hussein Katz
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Billy Kheel Photo by: Hussein Katz
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Billy Kheel Photo by: Hussein Katz
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Billy Kheel Photo by: Grace Oh
Billy Kheel's Story
FLORIDA
I wasn’t there when our redneck neighbor came over and shot the alligators in our pond. I did come home in time to see him string one of the gators up and cut the meat out of the tail. After he cut the meat out he left it over night in a bucket of salt water in our driveway to soften it up. The night after that we fried the meat up and ate it. Not surprisingly, it tasted like chicken.
The other alligator that the redneck neighbor shot was to have a much more humiliating afterlife. This alligator was smaller than the other one, so it was decided that it wasn’t worth the effort to get the tail meat out. Instead we tied a rope around its neck and dragged it to a pond down the road. For the next few weeks my brother and I would show anybody that visited our “pet” alligator. That lasted until the heat and gas caused the alligator to swell up like a balloon and we had to call someone from the city to take it away.
NEW ENGLAND
One day after school we all met down at our friend’s boat. It was a pretty small outboard motor boat but it was big enough to get the four of us down the Essex River and out to the backside of Cranes Beach. We ran the boat up the beach and got out to play in the dunes. Back then the dunes at Crane’s Beach were huge and went on forever (or at least that is how it seemed). We ran and jumped off the tops of the massive dunes and rolled and sledded down to the bottom before running up the next dune and doing some variation on this exhilarating sand surfing.
We lost track of time frolicking on those dunes and soon it was close to getting dark. We made our way back to boat only to realize the tide had gone out and our boat was now twenty yards up on the beach. Immediately the four of us ran down to the boat and started pushing and pulling it, trying to dislodge it from the sand it get it to move the impossible distance back to the water. The sun was going down quickly and we feared we would freeze on the beach over night in our wet clothes. At least one of the boys among us began screaming and crying that his parents would kill him if he missed dinner. It is possible the panic gave us a collective shot of adrenaline because soon after the crying the boat began to slowly budge and soon picked up speed and we made it the rapidly receding water. It was a cold dark ride back to the dock and we were all late for dinner but felt we had been given a second chance at life.
LOS ANGELES
I was working for a photographer and used to get invited to his parties in the Hollywood Hills. The photographer had a friend from Harvard who lived in a small bungalow adjacent to a pool on some gorgeously landscaped grounds high in the hills. The pool had gaudy three hundred and sixty degree views of twinkling Los Angeles at night. The pool bungalow was fancy and modern and had Kama Sutra wallpaper in the bathroom.
These Harvard buddies would throw huge parties, inviting all of the young actresses and models that posed for the photographer. The guy that lived there would walk around in a bathrobe, calmly chatting with some of the prettiest people from all over the United States. Up until that point in my life, these were the most decadent parties I had ever been to. I used to spend extra time in the bathroom looking at the crazy poses in the Kama Sutra wallpaper.
At one of these parties I noticed a team photo hung over the wallpaper in the bathroom. It was a football team photo from Harvard and I looked closely at each face and to my surprise found my high school football coach. I was shocked and excited when I found him, he had been a fascinating character – the high-minded English teacher who would smash chalkboards with his head at halftime, even if we were winning.
When I got out of the bathroom, I went to find the bathrobed guy that lived there. I noticed him in the team photo as well and was excited to ask about my coach. I interrupted him talking to a young blonde model and told him excitedly that he played football with my high school coach. He looked at me strangely, and not in a friendly way. He then turned and walked away and I never spoke to him again.
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Billy Kheel is a Los Angeles based artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work has been featured in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Vice Creator’s Project, KCRW's Design and Architecture and KCET's Artbound.
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