The Junk Drawer

My New Collection... by fleur_de_lis

Mown-a-Lisa Some people collect baseball cards, license plates, and shaving mugs--others like to collect Willow Tree figurines, rocks, or quilts. Personally, my favorite thing to collect is Mona Lisa ripoffs.... Here are a few I've acquired over the years ;) Bean Mona Lisa Poker Mona Lisa Velvet Art Mona Lisa Botero Mona Lisa Mad Magazine Mona Lisa ,,,and of course my favorite-- Pirate Mona! What's in your collection?

Sliced and Diced by fleur_de_lis

See if you can recognize these masterpieces of western painting from the hands of Ju Duoqi! The Raft of the Lotus Roots The Kiss of the Radishes Cabbage Monroe Napoleon on Potatoes Mona Tofu The Scream of the Sweet Potatoes Van Gogh Made of Leek "In the summer of '06, I bought several kilograms of peas, and sat there quietly for 2 days peeling them, before stringing them on a wire and turning them into a skirt, a top, a headdress and a magic wand. I used a remote control to take a photo of myself in them, and named it Pea Beauty Pageant. That was my first work of vegetable art." Ju Duoqi was born in 1973 in Chongqing, China. She was part of the One Child Policy generation and was at one time a website and computer game designer. Today she is a housewife in Beijing and fills some of her idle hours in the kitchen creating veggie art. She photographs her work and prints editions for sale--usually $1500 to $2000 apiece. Since 2006 she has been able to produce approximately 2...

Favorite Yogi Berra quotes! by fleur_de_lis

MVP 3 times, 10 World Series rings, 300 homers and an enduring legacy of quotes that as Joe Garagiola once said, 'You walk away and you want to screw your head on a little bit tighter...Did he really say that?'. Here is a sampling of some of my favorites, and be sure to add your own. You better cut the pizza in 4 pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat 6. If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. A nickel ain't worth a dime any more. Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical. He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia...

Gimme a Can Opener by fleur_de_lis

BAM! There you go--right in your face--100 cans of Beef Noodle soup courtesy of Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Some consider Andy to be the most famous American artist of all time. He certainly created his share of controversy and made us look at our world in an entirely new way! "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings, and me. There's nothing behind them." "I like boring things. I like things to be the same over and over." And the quote everyone is familiar with: "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes." As you might expect, Andy was a very strange young man. As a boy, he became fascinated with movies and celebrities and would retreat into a fantasy world to escape his real life. Andy was an extremely shy boy and man but was still able to have a successful career as a commercial artist before he became an influential member of the Pop Art movement. Pop Art (short for Popular Art) took bits...