Let's Make Life Awesome
I hung a plant on my wall, y’all.
Okay, let me back up. I have a good reason.
Behind that plant and poster is a huge eye sore – the thermostat and carbon monoxide detector for the second level of the house. Granted, they are vital to our home, but their big whiteness on my wall just stared at me every day. Taunting me. Laughing at me. Saying, “You can’t get me. Nah nah nah nah boo boo.”
Oh, thermostat and carbon monoxide detector. You have met your match.
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I have pre-ordered exactly one thing in my life. It wasn’t a copy of Frozen for my kids or a must-have Xbox game. It was a book filled with the work of an artist who died not long after I was born.
Mary Blair’s artwork is a thing of obsession to me. Her work elicits such nostalgia.
Y’all, I literally gasp with every page I turn.
I’m not going to pretend that I know anything at all about art. I’m not going to give you a bio on Mary Blair other than to tell you that she worked with Walt Disney on visual concepts for Cinderella, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland and on creating the It’s a Small World ride at the 1964 New York World’s Fair (which later became a ride at the Disney parks)….