ThriftHorror

Recent Posts

  • Interrupting your silence for an update!
  • Rabbit Season!!
  • Dolphins in Bondage
  • From the ‘Creepy Little Dead Girl’ Files
  • Putti: Creepy as F***

Recent Comments

  • Hannah Theresa Weyland on Just stand still.
  • Brunettepet on Can’t sleep, birdhouse will eat me
  • hotclaws on And another enigma.
  • Brunettepet on Well and truly fired
  • Brunettepet on A beautiful mystery!

Tags

"handicrafts" (tm) 12 Days 2010 12days2011 12days2012 12days2013 12days2014 aminals amorphous blobs angels bad art Bears Best Of biohazard bottles broked candles ceramics children Christmas clowns Country Crafts DIY dolls don't wear that! for the kids furries Halloween Holiday Posts horrors huh? it must be bunnies Just Cool juxtapositions kittens moments My Funny Valentine? Not PC NSFW plates puppies San Antonio shelfpig shell art Weird Religion

Best of Thrift

  • Next To New Consignment
  • Top Drawer Thrift
  • Treasure City Thrift

Blogness

  • Rewind Knits and Crochets
  • Thrift Madness
  • Thrift Store Adventures
  • Thrift Store Horror
  • Yardsaling to Adventure!

Links

  • RSS Feed
  • Thrifthorror on Facebook
  • Thrifthorror on Pinterest
  • ThriftHorror on Twitter

Plenty of fish on the shelf

Seriously, shell artist. You balked at the hat? the single easiest part of a fisherman to replace with, I don’t know, a half clam, a cowrie, one of those little spiralling winkle things with the points. Make him a pretty shell princess, or a shell monk, or whatever. There are so many options. But you went with a straw hat?

No integrity.

12-26-13SAAndMllShell4

Although I guess you can go too far with verisimilitude. Take the poor guy’s nose. Like gin, both are inspired by potatoes. And this one is probably also inspired by gin, as well. Take it from the side (it won’t fit, straight on):

12-26-13SAAndMllShell3

I haven’t quite grokked what’s going on in his stomach area. It is weirdly transparent. You could use him as a napkin holder, which may be what’s happened. Or as a convenient fish storage space. But you can almost see his spine through his rib-void, which is, well, not something I generally look for in a guy. “Can I see through your body to the wall beyond, except for a slender spine of bone supporting his neck and ‘head’? Sign me up, he’s marriage material.”

Anyway…

Salvation Army on Anderson Mill, Austin

December 1, 2014   TV's Jacob
Uncategorized shell art

Related Posts

  • Unsure. But definitely shells.
    Unsure. But definitely shells.
  • Just stand still.
    Just stand still.
  • John 11:35: And Jesus danced.
    John 11:35: And Jesus danced.
×

  • Those usually come in pairs.
  • Fort Sara

Leave a Reply

Cancel

  • (will not be published)
Copyright © 2013 ThriftHorror - Things From Beyond the Bargain Bin: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, powered by Wordpress
7ads6x98y