Sunday, November 22, 2009

meet winona!


Meet Winona or "wine-ona". Yes she's my wine rack mannequin, and not my girlfriend, like in the movie Lars and the real girl, as my sister likes to say. She wasn't the only one to say such things, cuz even my ex threatened to throw a beer bottle at poor winona when we were breaking up.

The crazy idea to make a wine rack out of a mannequin came to me one night in a dream, but I never had any intention of letting this looney idea turn into an actual piece of furniture in my apartment. Until one day I had a bit too much brandy, which afterall is distilled wine, and accidentally ordered the mannequin. Costing me well over a hundred dollars.

I sent it to my parents house because I wasn't at my apartment that often, and there is always someone there. When it finally arrived my parents asked my sisters what the package was, and they explained to my parents my insane ideas. Well my parents rolled their eyes and I forgot what they said exactly but they weren't comments of approval.

I wasn't sure how I was going to make it happen but I knew I needed a special saw or something that my dad had. So I drove to his airplane hangar and timidly asked for his help, and told him what I was trying to acomplish. To my surprise he was very helpful and seemed to enjoy measuring winona's breast in order to get the right drill attatchment.

Then I took it back to my parent's house and asked my sisters for old clothes so that I could dress her. My sisters brought an old skirt, an old sweater, and some leg stockings. As I dressed her I was struggling putting on the stockings and my Mother saw this and said,"No, no not like that. Let me do it." So what started out as a crazy idea turned out to be some sort of wacky family project? Well, time for a glass of wine. Ooh...pleasant aroma,...lovely body,... and a little perky.

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