The words are burbling away in my mind and I just can’t seem to get them out onto paper in any coherent form. They want to stay tucked inside my head all nice and safe and warm. They want to swirl around in circles and tangents and not be constrained on a screen. They most certainly do not want to be subjected to my loose interpretation of grammar.
Bloody treacherous things, much like emotions I suppose. I think that I am travelling along nicely when all of a sudden something small is enough to push me over the edge.
The little things, the little annoyances, the small inconveniences that can suddenly bring you undone.
Mum’s prescription hadn’t been faxed through to the chemist. A small inconvenience really but it was enough to reduce me to tears.
A sign in a shop window. Torso for sale, $50. Enquire within. Was enough to make me happy.
Look! Look! Isn’t she lovely???
I have been toying with the idea of making bum plates for ages now but I couldn’t get anyone to model for me. The bloody sooks my lovely family wouldn’t even consider being my models so that I could make a plaster cast of their various body parts.
When Veronica was 17 she nearly agreed to let me take a plaster cast of her breasts. When I explained that I wanted her to cover her upper torso in vaseline and that she would then have to lie very still on the kitchen table, for about 20-30 minutes whilst I poured plaster of paris onto her bare skin, she decided that she didn’t want to be my model after all *SIGH*
Now that Vonnie has breastfed two children I occassionally remind her that If she hadn’t been such a sook, she could have owned a set of perky ceramic breasts to remind her of how her boobs looked pre-children. There is a moral in there somewhere…
I am the proud owner of a lovely buxom torso,yay. The sky really is the limit now that I have a model that wont complain at all when I cover her body in plaster.
I have been wanting to take my torso for a walk in the bush as well and photograph her next to some large trees. I have a sculpture lurking in my head that is a tree/woman/suggestion of despair. But I need to remember my keywords for this year are Focus and Resolution. My torso is safely tucked away for later and everytime I walk past her I smile.
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See, this is exactly why I love you. First you are amused by the torso for sale…and then you buy it. Genius.
Focus.
Focus.
Focus!
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– your mention of V’s 17 year old bosom just made Lceel really REALLY happy
-“I think that I am travelling along nicely when all of a sudden something small is enough to push me over the edge.” If I could string words together this eloquently, this is EXACTLY what I would say.
-I think you need to drive your torso around in your car, with her strapped into the passenger seat and drive around talking to her….because THAT would be funny. I don’t suppose you have a head and a wig you could lend her? She’d be happier with a head. Wouldn’t we all?
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Love the torso, looking forward to seeing more of her in the bush settings 😉
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Hmmmm. And here I am fixated on the whole naked torso and ‘bush’ thing. But that’s just me and my filthy mind.
😉
You can pour plaster of paris on me. You’ll have to come to the States though.
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She has my arse.
I lost it back in ’91.
I want that bitch back.
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Oh … to have a figure like that! Perfect proportions all round! Can just imagine you taking your new friend into the bush or riding around with her in the front seat of the car – don’t forget the seat belt!
I did that once with one of Jeanette’s large teddy’s ‘Brutus’ – put nice clothes on him, buckled him in, and off we went – to the collection for the Aids babies/children.
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“something small is enough to push me over the edge”. That was me earlier today. I cried an ocean. but I’m okay now.
I LOVE the torso, it has such possibilities. What a great moment finding that just when you needed cheering up.
Hmmm, bum plates and boob bowls….rib cage serving platters.
Yes okay, in retrospect I should have let you do a mold.
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There’s something symbolic there about the oppressed condition of the female in phallocentric societies… No head, no hands and no feet. All the “able to do something about anything” parts are removed.
Are you making a political statement??
Hm.
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oh the things you could do with that torso……….
Actually I’ve seen some of the coolest sculptures done with torsos by the art students at my kids school. One of the wrapped the torso in plastic wrap and glued it somehow then cut it off to make a cling wrap torso and clad it in a recycled material bikini!
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It is so nice and pleasant in my mind, right now …. later.
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A 17 year old vaseline covered upper body spread out on a kitchen table….
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She is beautiful. If only I had her figure. Sigh. Please take her for a drive with a head and wig and then photograph the reactions of people you drive past.
I hope you got the prescription sorted out – I know it’s not a big thing but it’s the sort of thing that you just don’t need right now.
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How wonderful – I have always wanted one – or even better – a whole body!!
A friend had some legs and a bottom – called Barbara – I always wanted her – she could have modelled my socks
Love to your mum
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love it
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…and what a lovely, perky torso she is!
Glad she has brought some happiness.
Do you think, if I bought one, plastic surgeons might remove my saggy baggy elephant torso and sew that gorgeous, perfect, if slightly not skin toned torso on me?
Me either.
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My brain is not working sufficiently to come up with any relevant comment. I just came by to say I’d seen your comment about V’s diagnosis and well, I’m here. I wish I’d been wrong, but on the other hand I’m so very glad you got a diagnosis this early on and won’t have to go through more years of not knowing. Will you, Spouse and David get checked out now too? I’ll have a think about some EDS resources for you, it’s overwhelming at first but that soon passes. For now can I suggest a new book written by Brad Tinkle, Issues and Management of Joint Hypermobility. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Issues-Management-Joint-Hypermobility-Tinkle/dp/0981836003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240481465&sr=8-1
It’s mainly aimed at the hypermobile type but it’s the best resource so far on EDS. (I’m also primarily classical with features of hypermobile and one of the really weird rare types!)
Good luck Mummy Kim, BG x x x
lol
Is this the one that was in town? If so, I saw it a few days ago…if not there is another just like it in a shop window in town also looking for a home.
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I think your torso would make some very fine photographs!
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Quite a lovely torso you got there 🙂
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You make me smile.
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