Crushed Velvet & Roses

Being held prisoner by the snow and feeling crazier each day has it’s benefits.

Meet Miz Elfriede Thornypaynebottom, who has recently taken up residence at Mockingbird Manor. She is waiting for her new mansion to be built and we just happened to have room for her here. I’m not one to tell what’s been said about Miz Elfriede but it’s all so shocking if it’s indeed true.

It seems that Miz Elfriede has not one, not two, not three but FIVE dead husbands behind her! All have mysteriously died on her one. by. one. Poor thing we really should be trying to comfort her since husband #5 Mr. Thornypaynebottom dropped dead as a door nail at their breakfast table not two weeks ago!

Miz Elfriede says she can’t bear to be in that home anymore where her sweet Mr. Thornypaynebottom was found blue with his eyes bulging and tongue hanging out of his head. That’s why she’s having another home built. By the time it’s finished I’m sure she’ll have her claws into someone else ready to be husband number SIX. Every silver lining has a cloud but Miz Elfriede seems to leave her clouds quite tarnished. Oh! Please don’t let her know I said all that! The last thing I want is to be found dead with my eyes bugged out and tongue black as that woman’s heart!

Meet little Miz Lottie Whakyerbak. While she may look as if butter couldn’t melt in her mouth, be careful not to make her mad as It is rumored that Miz Lottie has a horrible temper. Screeches as loud as a banshee that can be heard two streets over while she’s kicking whoever or whatever is within her reach. Don’t dare turn your back on her or you could find yourself face down on the ground with her jumping up and down on your back – or worse! At the bottom of the staircase with a broken neck…….so I’ve heard.

Terrible accidents have a way of happening to those who do not give her what she wants!

“You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?”
-Charles Baudelaire: Les Paradis Artificiels

I am finding more and more humor in the macabre lately. Reading Poe for some reason seems to do that to me.

I also find it amusing when Zoe’s friends come over they’re completely creeped out by my collection of dolls, doll heads and assorted doll body parts. Which at any given time can either be placed on display or laying around here and there in various states of being put together Frankenstein style. Even funnier is when Zoe’s friends ask her if it bothers her that “the dolls are watching them” and Zoe looks at them like they’re crazy. ha! Doesn’t everyone have things like these laying around their houses?

Very soon there will be new Residents of Mockingbird Manor to introduce you to. Such strange goils they are, but if they were normal they wouldn’t fit in here very well, now would they?

There are some things that just can not be improved upon. For instance – the iconic Fire & Ice by Revlon! I just picked some of the lipstick / nail polish up and now you too can see me coming a mile away!

You can see more ornaments that will be at The Elegant Attic in Historic Roswell HERE

But I love this picture. ‘Spring’ by Carolus Duran Charles

Once bright and shiny – now these ornie frames look as if they have a story to tell. I used the Liver of Sulphur GEL from Alpha Stamps. It stinks like you wouldn’t believe – but the results are so worth the smell! According to the Oompa Loompas, it smells like dog farts+rotten eggs. Just sayin’………lol