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Dead Pet Stencils and 90-Grain Bread
I received this book as a gift years ago and can highly recommend it to fans and non-fans of "The Dominatrix of Domesticity."
It's a beautifully authentic parody, with two stand-out photos: Martha ("Stuart" not "Stewart," to keep it sorta legal) re-assembling the branches of a Christmas tree with a glue gun "to achieve the perfect pyramid shape that nature never gets quite right" and Martha on Easter morning, greeting a fluffy lamb with a sweet smile on her face and a hatchet behind her back.
cover:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/006...447-3330462?_encoding=UTF8&p=S001#reader-link
table of contents 1 (includes "making water" and "the perfect log pile")
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/006...447-3330462?_encoding=UTF8&p=S002#reader-link
excerpt:
STENCILED DRIVEWAY
"Art, we know, often imitates life. So that when some chicks wandered across the driveway from the Maison de Poulet and were accidentally run over with a Range Rover (honestly, I didn't see them), I cried, then was immediately inspired to immortalize the chicks by tracing their outline and stenciling the dead-chick pattern, left, on the black-top.
"Take a recently deceased pet, any pet. After it has been sufficienty flattened, use a piece of chalk to draw its form on the driveway or other surface. Then lay tracing paper over the chalk form, re-outline with a Number 9 pencil and transfer the new outline to stiff cardboard. Cut out the pattern. Repeat up one side of driveway and down the other.
Continue onto street..."
I received this book as a gift years ago and can highly recommend it to fans and non-fans of "The Dominatrix of Domesticity."
It's a beautifully authentic parody, with two stand-out photos: Martha ("Stuart" not "Stewart," to keep it sorta legal) re-assembling the branches of a Christmas tree with a glue gun "to achieve the perfect pyramid shape that nature never gets quite right" and Martha on Easter morning, greeting a fluffy lamb with a sweet smile on her face and a hatchet behind her back.
cover:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/006...447-3330462?_encoding=UTF8&p=S001#reader-link
table of contents 1 (includes "making water" and "the perfect log pile")
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/006...447-3330462?_encoding=UTF8&p=S002#reader-link
excerpt:
STENCILED DRIVEWAY
"Art, we know, often imitates life. So that when some chicks wandered across the driveway from the Maison de Poulet and were accidentally run over with a Range Rover (honestly, I didn't see them), I cried, then was immediately inspired to immortalize the chicks by tracing their outline and stenciling the dead-chick pattern, left, on the black-top.
"Take a recently deceased pet, any pet. After it has been sufficienty flattened, use a piece of chalk to draw its form on the driveway or other surface. Then lay tracing paper over the chalk form, re-outline with a Number 9 pencil and transfer the new outline to stiff cardboard. Cut out the pattern. Repeat up one side of driveway and down the other.
Continue onto street..."
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