My scout hunters found 3 human Skulls for me, needless to say I am damned pretty stoked! No word yet on the shrunken head.
I prepared my illustration boards for posters, I am rather superstitious and won't be truly starting any new projects until June 1st. So in the meantime, I have been putzing along, researching, writing, making notes and catching up on a huge back-lot of emails of which I am only half-way through.
The Mütter Museum has requested/commissioned eight (8!) of my Victorian Lowbrow Mourning Dolls for their gift shop. Dolls: anatomy torso stump dolls, stump skull dolls, apothecary dolls, and down the road, fetal skull dolls.
I also have a rather large framed curio heading to the Mütter Museum in a month or so (if not sooner), and right now there are a nice bunch of mini framed curios along with a bunch of my posters currently for sale in the gift shop at the Mütter Museum.
So. If you are in Philadelphia and are in the neighborhood, check out the Mutter Museum and support them (and me) by going to the gift shop and buying something cool and one-of-a-kind!
Today was foggy and wet and I thought it was the perfect day to snap a few pics of the apartment building where Maila "Vampira" Nurmi and her family lived sometime around 1939-1940 while she was still in high school.
Just two houses down is the Hughes Ransom Mortuary, and right across from Hughes Ransom is their competition, Ocean View Cremation and Burial (for the frugal). Less than a block is Caldwell's Luce-Layton (the fancy pants) Mortuary. They always have the fanciest hearses, seriously nice.
The Hughes Ransom Mortuary was started around 1910, so there was a mortuary right there when Maila was living in the Home Apartments.
When the husband and I walk down the street past all those mortuaries, I can always tell when a cremation is happening - the air carries that certain tangy mouth-watering scent of cooking meat. Always.
From now until June 1st, we will be *still* adding more stuff to the website, those books I found as well as more very cool vintage items. I will post here when they are up on the web site.
Then, finally, then I can get to my posters and large framed curios. Champing at the bit here.
