Wee twee divas spotted in the garden department of Long's Drugstore:
They're made by the very prolific Amy Brown, whose website is "dedicated to the Believers." Each ornament, made of polystone and standing about 5 inches high, retails for about $25. The opportunity to tell the world "Take your so-called good taste and shove it": priceless.
Extra credit to anyone who heard in my post title the singular trill of Beatrice Lillie (1894-1989) singing "There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden," the song that made her the darling of le tout gay London in the 1920s. (No, I'm not that old; I just have a highly random store of useless knowledge.)
What are you talking about. Those sculptures are awesome.
You say that "diva" means "goddess" in Italian, but none of the online Italian dictionaries I checked support that. "Goddess" is "dea". "Diva" means "goddess" in Latin.
Posted by: goofy | March 12, 2008 at 10:52 AM
What better showcase for such finely sculpted mystical crap than Longs Drugs?
Posted by: Edwina Trout | March 12, 2008 at 01:51 PM
Ceramic figurines always have a way of confusing me. For example: "Betsy Ross in All Her Splendor" or "Why not add Nancy Reagan to your first lady collection?" I think it goes back to my first experiencies at Woolworths when they still had wooden floors. I still remember the sign. Displayed prominently in front of a rickety display case. It may have been my first dose of poetry.
So lovely to look at
So wonderful to hold
If you break it
It's sold
LOOK but DON'T TOUCH !!
Great advice for little kids and polititians eh?
By the way according to my volume of "Celtic Tales" fairies are definitly not what you would want to have hanging around anywhere close by. cheers!
Posted by: Nick Tata | March 12, 2008 at 10:46 PM