The Art from my Grandmother's Mink Coat.......

Although my mother gave away the leopard coat (see previous blog).....I did salvage my grandmother's full length mink coat. My mom called it an "old rat," cheap and useless....which I believed echoed her thoughts about my grandmother. I placed the coat under my protection at the end of the college and it remained in a cardboard box till 5 years ago...when I visited a friend's house while her interior decorator was working there.

He had created custom-made pillows for her very ornate couch.....incorporating old fur collars from coats she wore as a child. I told him about my grandmother's mink and made arrangements for him to come over and look at it.

"Oh my dear," he said, "you have the makings of a dynamite set of pillows."

We petted the fur for a while.... then opened the coat. On each side of the coat, there were beautiful silk appliques sewn into the chocolate brown lining. I never noticed them before. I remember saying to him, "they're like pictures, pretty enough to frame."

"Eureka honey." And he carted off the "old rat."

Week later he returned with wonderful pillows which grace an old vintage couch I inherited from an auntie. We call the couch..."the sex couch" because it looks like it should be in the boudoir of an old Hollywood movie star.

I admit the combination of the sex couch and the mink pillows in my living room ....has raised some eyebrows....in women.....who obviously wonder if I walk around all day in a black silk Teddie. ( Please...... no one could wear a black silk Teddie all day long....I only wear mine from Noon till 5Pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)

My mink pillows ....no one can pass by....without petting them.

The linings of my grandmother's coat framed.

He also created two pictures from the lining of the coat which hang in my dining room. Visitors to my house always stop and ask about these works.... silk on silk with beautiful subtle colored threads outlining the appliques.

I smile and tell them they're from my grandmother's old mink coat....a "rat" of a coat....which supposedly had no value.....but like many things....just needed a good eye and someone to appreciate the possibilities.
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When Your Art Trumps You........

So hub and I were walking down a street in Boston a couple months ago when he said, "Hey there's that elephant."

"What elephant?"

"The Ganeesh elephant."

"Where?" And sure enough in a store window was Ganeesh, a Hindu God.... a particular favorite of mine.....boy wonder....remover of obstacles.

The store had lots of Oriental furniture and a wall full of paintings/lithos/art.

Without warning, an entire row of pictures starting "yooo hoooo ing" at me.

"Stop now, I can't take you all home." It's okay when one piece of art calls out my name....but a crowd is disconcerting. "Take me home....take me home."

I asked the clerk what she knew about the paintings or if she had some idea what was written on each one.

"No, we haven't a clue. They just came in this way."

"Interesting."

I picked the plump bottom girl with no panties. We had lots in common. I forget my panties too (sometimes).....I have a cat..... I had a bird....(unfortunately my Springer Spaniel ate it) and I liked Chinese calligraphy.

Tonight while getting the house ready for company. I sat down on the stairs. Plump bottom girl was leaning against the wall on the landing. All I needed was a hammer and a nail and she'd be home.

So we were sitting there looking at each other....when I began to "see" things I hadn't noticed before.......


Like her nipple was hanging out of her shirt. Like her cheeks were abnormally flushed. A fan was on the floor.....had she been lying down on the mat?... a resting cat.....a startled bird.


"Well my dear.....self-love or lover?"

I bet self-love.

A cat never looks content if a man's involved.....

And the writing? I can only imagine......

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From a Snake to a Penis.....My Poor Mailbox

You can't make this stuff up even if you tried.... I decided to see how the foam insulation hub sprayed between the mailbox and the bricks worked to seal up the snake hiding space.

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I couldn't believe it........I crumbled to the street laughing.

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"How did you do this?" I asked hub. He pleaded innocent.....and seemed just as surprised as I was by the foam creation. He volunteered to cut it off.....

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"No way.....how often do you see a circumsized penis jutting out of a mailbox?"

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Hub agreed it was quite original....so we decided to leave our mailbox art alone ...at least till the next day.

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