i think we all knew that kidchamp was capable of degenerating into amateur floral arrangement by committee and/or multiple disembodied head photos in a week; don't act so surprised. our neighborhood wine shop has a bunch of shelves up front near the street where they display and sell vintage glassware, cocktail accessories, serving dishes, and so on; the pieces are usually inexpensive and nicely edited, so i ogle them while joe takes his sweet time with the booze (i still let interesting labels guide me, which still seems to work, so i don't hem and haw much over wine). last night they had this ceramic horse head vase (there's a 4"x2" hole for flowers along the mane) for a mere $12; it clearly needed to come home with us. i promised the amused australian wine guy that we'd bring back a camera phone picture of whatever we ended up arranging in the head; he was joking when he asked, but i jump at opportunities to show my flowers to strangers. call it the wholesome version of what bai ling does on the red carpet. i feel like i really need to bring it, so i could use some help: internets, what sort of flowers would you put in a disembodied horse's head? and what would you name said head? the naming is also key.
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well, the obvious (but somewhat ghoulish) name choice is khartoum, after the horse from "the godfather."
fact-checkin' cuz! i remembered jack woltz, but the horse itself was escaping me. and c'mon, we're all about ghoulish in these parts (in mafia fiction, anyway).
i'd go with:
red roses
black-eyed susans
and/or whatever flower they have at the belmont.
but actually, if i were going to twine flowers in a horse's hair, i'd choose some wild and scraggly-ish ones: cornflowers, queen anne's lace, poppies. also something that tends to trail would be nice.
i love it, by the way. we had a horse who looked kind of like that, color-wise, and i think his stable name was barney. if you wanted to go saddlebred style (=showy), rather than thoroughbred (=clever-ish), you would have to combine the names of his dam and sire to make something memorable and sassy. our barney's show name was "fizzy's april symbol." yowza. i'll explain that one later...
Nigella, for both the name and the flowers (they were the crazy exploding pod-like ones you had in your wedding arrangements).
my first go ended up being channeling both of you, mari and mum: i was at the union square greenmarket last saturday and fell in love with a $5 bundle of podtastic globe thistles (i'm a sucker for thistles) and queen anne's lace (though i didn't know what it was until i got home and asked the internets). i have no picture to show for it, for i have the memory of a goldfish, but it was purty - i'll definitely use both again.
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