Alice in Stonedwareland…
”What’s that behind Dad’s special green sticky bush?” Alice asked to no one in particular, as she hid from her sister during yet another hide & seek game. “It looks like a white stone with beautiful flowers. But smells like Dad’s ‘secret’ stash box.” she thought as she picked it up and held it to her nose.
“Pardon me my dear, but that’s mine” Alice was startled by a voice coming from the other side of the skunky bush. “Sorry for startling you, but I dropped that when I was last here because I was late for a very important date” and the voice turned into a very white rabbit with very red eyes in a very smart vest and a slight smile behind bucked teeth hopping around the bush. “So if you don’t mind…” and he held out a paw to receive the flowered stone.
Cautiously & curiously Alice handed the rabbit the stone. “But what is it?” she asked.
“Why it’s a limited edition Stonedware pipe elegantly styled by the renown Oregon based tattoo artist Alice Kendall.” the white rabbit said. “They are impossible to get at the moment and I do oh so love mine. I’m so happy to have found it and can enjoy it once again.” And with that he broke off a piece of the sticky stinky skunky bush, stuffed it in his pipe, lit it and took a long peaceful pull. “Ah, that’s much better.” he coughed as he sat back in the grass and stared at the clouds. Pointing to one in particular he smiled and said “That one looks like Peter Cottontail… but that’s another story” and laughed to himself at his own inside joke.
Alice was about to ask him more questions when suddenly the rabbit shot up and exclaimed, “Wait, what time is it? Dang it, I’m late again! I always lose my sense of time like this…”. He took another big puff, tucked the precious pipe into his vest pocket and shot off down a hole on the other side of the bush.
“How strange was that?” Alice asked herself. And then went back to her room where she proceed to find out that yes indeed these beautiful Alice Kendall adorned Stonedware pipes were all sold out. But there was a glimmer of hope that they might be doing another run of these soon.
But only if enough people demanded it…
Photo by: Antonia Basler
Alice Kendall’s tattoo shop: www.wonderlandpdx.com
