february 4, 2010
teeth and bones
is that a strange thing to have a collection of?
i really don’t know.
i have old watches, twisted and rusted pieces of wire, fortune cookies and three little metal crowns.
i don’t know for sure what’s strange and what isn’t anymore.
and it still hasn’t rained but it will.
i can taste it.
i can feel it in my bones.
Planting Along The Verge 
I used to have a few bird skulls, not a collection, really, and yes, teeth. But metal crowns? That's intriguing, I must say! (I'm picturing crowns of the royal variety here, not the dental…)
“Normal” vs. strange: one of the advantages of not being in my twenties (or thirties or forties) anymore is that is doesn't matter. When my sons tell me I'm weird, I say, “Thank-you!”
Happy weekend to you!
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I used to have a few bird skulls, not a collection, really, and yes, teeth. But metal crowns? That's intriguing, I must say! (I'm picturing crowns of the royal variety here, not the dental…)
“Normal” vs. strange: one of the advantages of not being in my twenties (or thirties or forties) anymore is that is doesn't matter. When my sons tell me I'm weird, I say, “Thank-you!”
Happy weekend to you!
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yes they are of the royal variety but i do have a couple of the dental variety as well…
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yes they are of the royal variety but i do have a couple of the dental variety as well…
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I was just looking at the shelf behind my sink and thinking that I should make a pinehole images of this strange jawbone that I found down the block…it must have belonged to a pig… I have Krissy tiny teeth in a little vial…and I have the tooth of a dog that my father saved when he was a box. It's in a small box, but the top is falling a part.
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I was just looking at the shelf behind my sink and thinking that I should make a pinehole images of this strange jawbone that I found down the block…it must have belonged to a pig… I have Krissy tiny teeth in a little vial…and I have the tooth of a dog that my father saved when he was a box. It's in a small box, but the top is falling a part.
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oh, dear, that should read Krissy's and my father was a boy, not a box…
but, oh well,…
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oh, dear, that should read Krissy's and my father was a boy, not a box…
but, oh well,…
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Melissa so good to know there is another tooth collector out there! and that your father was a boy and not a box.;O)
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Melissa so good to know there is another tooth collector out there! and that your father was a boy and not a box.;O)
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i have bear and deer skulls and bones–inspiration on the mantel–i like the combination of delicate buttons with the teeth and soft vintagey fabrics
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i have bear and deer skulls and bones–inspiration on the mantel–i like the combination of delicate buttons with the teeth and soft vintagey fabrics
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thanks Arlee! deer and bear! wow.
i like this juxtaposition of soft vintage and a little creepy. a little nostalgia, with a little spook thrown in.
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thanks Arlee! deer and bear! wow.
i like this juxtaposition of soft vintage and a little creepy. a little nostalgia, with a little spook thrown in.
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