apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

But can the stuffed six-legged mouse sing "Suspicious Minds"?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Freaky multi-limbed rodent! (I am sooo going to have nightmares now - not about the critter so much as the taxidermist....................)

wende LOL
This is the perfect companion piece to the taxidermy that's a hot seller at Saks this year. As read in today's NYT H&H.

The peacocks aren't dying fast enough for the Saks consumers!

Ooh, I'd missed that article! How very late Victorian...

What's scary is that is only about the second most bizarre line in the article: "We sold six peacocks in one week," said Robert Burke, the fashion director of Bergdorf. "But there is a waiting list because we have to wait for them to die of natural causes."

a-hem
what about
the baby giraffe!

zoo keepers, hide your young!

to clarify the design significance
(I don't think this is in their online edition)

there's a lady looking for a taxidermied giraffe
she'd like a baby, since her ceilings are low


the extra arms on above mousey are starting to look pretty normal now . . .

Oh, the giraffe was in the online edition. That's the first most bizarre statement in the article.

Where's PETA when they might actually be useful?

So there are people running around the peacocks sizing up which of them looks old or a little sickly? Or are they running around trying to spook them into fatal heart attacks? This is too creepy. So, how does one put "dead-peacock-wrangler" on ones resume??? (Letter to Santa, please no taxidermy gifties in my stocking...)

Where I grew up, the E&J Gallo bottling plant was supposed to have peacocks strolling the lawn. Thanks, Libby -- now I have this horrible vision of people sneaking up on the Gallo peacocks and trying to scare them into heart attacks.

While waiting for paint to dry, I found the peacock in BG's Xmas catalog:
http://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/store/sitelets/christmasbook/specialProd.jhtml?gift=5&firstpage=20&PassBack=Gifts3&catalog_name=holiday2005&catalog=1&Gifts3

you know, it's kind of a waste of peacock if the tail feathers are not unfurled
(thanks for the link)

By "made in France" does that mean the peacock or the taxidermied "art" it's corpse is turned into? (Clearly I am obsessing over this. It is bringing back memories of a woman I worked with who raised albino peacocks. I thought that a bit unusual but realized she was really out of it when we had to share a room on a business conference - heard some really scary, crazy stuff.......)

Having lived with little beady stuffed eyes from 10 taxidermed owls (and a loon) in a former marriage, I'm just creeped out, period. Ex was not a hunter; ex fancied he ran an historic house museum. The Julian H. Sleeper House in this listing:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/425/4667524-2.html

I think the taxidermy is done in France. The peacocks are probably slaughtered in Algeria or Cote d'Ivoire or somewhere highly politically incorrect.

Au contraire, I'm sure the peacocks live a long and revered life strolling the paths of the Taj Mahal . . .

Truth be told, I think the SF taxidermy artist is pretty interesting for making the piece pictured above =
I'm hoping she's thinking about modern science and not ripping off Ganesh.

What's next, stuffed deer heads for sale at BG? Bizarre. But, I can't help but think I'd like to get all the purchasers of the peacocks in a room, just out of morbid curiousity of what such a crew would look like.