Everyone DOES collect heads, don’t they???? Or perhaps something just a little fun and kooky?? I love weird things. My collection of weird things tends to be an ice breaker at parties. I’m always on the lookout for something fun. Some of my heads, my dad made. They’ve set outside at the farm for years. The one on the porch is the one I use to tell people where to find my house….”Look for the head on the porch.”
My collection started about nine years ago. My mom was ill, and living in Wichita with my brother and his wife. I went up to Wichita, and stayed with them in the summer, for 3 or 4 weeks, helping out. At the end of one of those times, my sister-in-law gave me a gift. It was a man, holding an umbrella, riding a pig. I used to collect pigs. This was perfect!!! And that began my collection of the weird and of heads.
Later, after my mother had passed away, we siblings were trying to decide what to do with all of the stuff left in mom’s house, sheds, and barn. She loved to go to auctions. She was also a teacher. You know the teacher mentality??? “I might need that some day in my classroom!” When we cleaned out the shed, we found, in the back, the bottom half of a mannequin. I said “I need that!” So…it turned out that my sister got the Fostoria, and I got the bottom half of a mannequin. But, oh, I love it! I get lots of comments on this piece.
I enjoy going to the Main Street Arts Festival, in Fort Worth. We attend every year. I have a small amount of money to spend. One year, my son was graduating from Seminary, and had been preaching in two small churches. Upon Graduation, he was placed in a larger church, in the city. I found this little person, that said “Preacher Man Goes to the City”. Yep..he’s a little weird. And yep..my son does not want that willed to him.
I have two more heads that I bought at the Art Festival, the following two years. They are by the same artist. One is a head on a stick. (I used to have it in my music room, but my piano students always thought it was looking at them! LOL) I also have a boy with a head that is so big, it makes him fall over.
How about you? Let me know in the comments, if you have a fun collection. I’ll be posting another one of my collections, in the next few days.
