The Next Best Thing to Flying is Looking Good

Burlington, Vermont is blessed with having a hopping art scene and a lot of small arts organizations to boot. One of these, the South End Arts Business Association is one of my favorites since they put on the Art Hop throughout the South End every September and I get to feel like I live in a city with an art district for a night or two. So to support SEABA, I bedazzled a flamingo. Yep, a flamingo. A pink, plastic lawn ornamenting flamingo. You see, they're having a flamingo auction. Take a look:

http://www.seaba.com/node/69

How could I resist? I started out innocently enough with a perfectly pleasant pink flamingo:



Isn't she lovely? But basking in the original glory of the pink wonder wasn't the task at hand. Creative decoration, however, was. It began innocently enough with a few beads...


And who could say no to a little fake fur?


And a few more beads...


And a couple of buttons, beads, and assorted other baubles...


By this point I'm gaining on tacky...


Yep, tacky is coming up fast on the outside...


And voila! Six layers of glue left to peel off my hands and two bags of trinkets create one mighty fine auction item:


But, of course, you can't forget the jaunty flower in the beak:


She is truly a thing of beauty. While I hope SEABA makes a lot of money of her and that someone special falls in love with my girl, I secretly hope she doesn't sell so she can come home.

I need to get out more.