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Category Archives: Art
Pretty Painted People
It’s turned out to be a body art kind of week. Continue reading
Painted Ladies
Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia the tattooed lady
She has eyes that men adore so
And a torso even more so
Lydia, oh Lydia, that en-cy-clo-pedia
Lydia, the queen of tattoo
On her back is the Battle of Waterloo
Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus, too
And proudly above waves the red, white and blue
You can learn a lot from Lydia!– Harold Arlen
But what does it have to do with French girls??
Freestyling
“Give me a piece of your skin, & I’ll give you a piece of my soul.” -Jay Freestyle
Trump* l’Oeil
*Misspelling intentional Continue reading
Gorgeous Grief…
World’s Biggest Paper Doll
Love Letters to Old Dogs
It’s been a doggy kind of week. Continue reading
Blondes Have More Fun
I have fallen in love with a fancy rodent.
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But Wouldn’t They Rust?
Terrific Twee Table-Top Twees, er, Trees
Fractals Among Us
Waves of Glass
We’re on vacation this week. Continue reading
Not Your Mother’s Porcelain Figurines
Murrine Life
Murrine is an Italian term for patterns or pictures made in glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cut in cross-sections (like a loaf of bread). Continue reading
Glass Half Full
Rocks in the Head
If It’s Free, It’s For Me!
Fallen Women…
Back in the 1930’s, William Lyon Phelps of Yale found the following sentence gleaming out of the pages of a freshman essay: “The girl tumbled down the stairs and lay prostitute at the bottom.” In the margin of the paper, Professor Phelps commented: “My dear sir, you must learn to distinguish between a fallen woman and one who has merely slipped.”




















