Don't get fresh with me

"Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world.

Except for a nice MLT: a mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich,

where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe.

They're so perky, I love that."

-- Miracle Max, The Princess Bride

Homegrown tomato faces with jiggle eyes 8-6-13

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

-- Miles Kington

"You like potato and I like potahto,

You like tomato and I like tomahto;

Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!

Let's call the whole thing off!

But oh! If we call the whole thing off,

Then we must part.

And oh! If we ever part,

Then that might break my heart!"

-- George and Ira Gershwin, "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"

 

 

Gotta love it when Mother Nature gives me a fresh face.

 

And when she plants one right under my nose ...

 

of course I pick it.

 

 

Clayface

"What is a face, really? 

Its own photo? Its make-up? 

Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? 

That which is in front? Inside? Behind? 

And the rest? 

Doesn't everyone look at himself 

in his own particular way? 

Deformations simply do not exist."

-- Pablo Picasso

Self portrait with polymer clay face 5-22-13

Polymer clay face with jiggle eyes 5-22-13

 "No man for any considerable period 

can wear one face to himself 

and another to the multitude, 

without finally getting bewildered 

as to which may be true." 

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Facing it, always facing it, 

that's the way to get through. 

Face it."

-- Joseph Conrad

Egg on my face ... er, I mean, face on my egg

 "Because each of us is an egg, 

a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. 

Each of us is confronting a high wall."

                                                                                                            -- Haruki Murakami

Egg face with jiggle eyes 5-13-13

“It's what's buried deep inside that frightens me 

because it's broken, 

like a shattered mirror.”

-- Jessica Sorenson, The Secret of Ella and Micha 

 Egg face (2) with jiggle eyes 5-13-13

 "She was just a shell of her former self,

 functioning and talking but hardly alive."

-- Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

Zesty!

"If you have zest and enthusiasm, 

you attract zest and enthusiasm. 

Life does give back in kind."

                                                                                              -- Norman Vincent Peale

Lime face with a cherry, jiggle eyes, and zest 4-21-13

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, 

the zest of creating things new."

                                                                        -- Antoine de Saint-Esupery

Pick me! Pick me!

"You can pick your friends, 

and you can pick your nose. 

But you can't pick your friend's nose."

Strawberry faces with jiggle eyes 4-18-13

"Strawberries  are the angels of the earth, 

innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward."

                                                                                                                 -- Terri Guillemets

Strawberry faces with jiggle eyes 4-18-13

This s*** is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

"In nonsense is strength."

                                                               Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Banana face with jiggle eyes, cutout mouth and a sticker 4-11-13

Banana face (2) with jiggle eyes, cutout mouth and a sticker 4-11-13

“When bananas blush, 

they turn brown, not red. 

And when tomatoes blush, 

you’ve probably said 

something really naughty.
”

                               

   -- Jarod Kintz 

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Dreidl, dreidl, dreidl, I made it out of clay

OK, it's not really a dreidl.
It's another face.
But I did make it out of clay.
And jiggle eyes.
And false eyelashes.

Polymer clay face with jiggle eyes and false eyelashes 2-27-13

Respect the 'stache

 “Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, 

instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. 

I offered them politely to my friends: 'Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?' 

Nobody dared to touch them. 

This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”

-- Salvador Dali, Dali's Mustache 

I made another clay face.
Here he is, rocking the 'stache.
The 'stache is everything.

Polymer clay face with jiggle eyes and string 2-23-13

 And here he is wearing a little hat!

Polymer clay face with jiggle eyes, string and a hat 2-23-13