That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 18, 2021

“I can’t believe I agreed to pose for this on a commission basis.”

Juana: That’s carved from marble?

Cantinflas: Sí, I’ll wipe it off for you. When I work, I eat Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.

“And you put coins here in the butt.”

Why did you carve me as a scarlet woman?

Pro tip: giving a woman a lawn ornament and a creepy blood red statue is not a surefire way to get her to go out with you.

James and Lily / acting silly / quite soon the two will marry. /// Lily and James / playing their games / progenitors of Harry.

Evans and Potter / sit by the water / planning for when they will wed. /// Potter and Evans / look to the heavens / heedless of what lies ahead.

Statue and skein. / Magic Portkeys to gain / instant transport to get aboard ship. /// Skein and statue. / This couple’s a match you / see here in The Potters Courtship.

(Apostrophe omitted to prevent triggering sensitive readers.)

You will have no trouble getting this onto the cruise ship!

I couldn’t catch a salmon large enough, or I would have carved it to full scale!

I only agreed to meet you here because I assumed you were married when you asked me to come meet “the little woman.”

It’s a symbol of my admiration, Hortense, and I present it to you lox, stock and bagelsl.

She could see now his boasts were all twaddle, / and his neck she would willingly throttle. / There’d have been no consent / if she’d known what he meant / when he promised he’d “make me a model.”

This is my entry for the competition to design a giant statue for the Americans to place in New York Harbor. I call it “Liberty Offering the Tired and Poor a Croissant.”

Francoise. I’m afraid I made the Liberty torch too big! Maybe if you could make yours bigger we’ll both be happy.

Quick! Fire up the grill!

Do seagulls fly over your house?

“Lemme have a peek? A quick look, just one. Please???”

It’s yesterday once more.

It was quite a “salmon” occasion /the sculpture was simply amazin’/ I’d be willing to bet, though /that, right from the get go / he was planning a friendly invasion.

“I’m very flattered, whoa I think it just moved.”

something is fishy.

also, she has maxxed out her marshmallow stick.

The artist says this is the potter’s courtship. If so, this potter has skills way beyond throwing on the wheel.

I got it at the dollar store.

“Sorry,I’ll take a look after I roast these giant marshmallows. “

We are making pink salt crystal ionizing air purifier icon collectibles. We are starting with Disney Princesses, Virgin Mary, and assorted saints by seasonal demand.

“Are you making a comment on my natural scent?”

“Not yet. Give it a few hours in the sun.”

That sculptor always seemed a little fishie.

Sorry, it’s a bit messy until it dries.

First we’ll roast your tiny salmon-woman, and for dessert, we can toast these enormous marshmallows!

WOMAN: You traded our boat and my shoes for a statue and a weird effigy that when burned, will have the fish jumping to us on shore? WE’LL BE RICH!!!

“That’s right, carved from salmon, and I think it really caught your form and your scent, don’t you?”

The Potter’s Courtship: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Hughes_-_The_Potter%27s_Courtship.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. First Other versions entry has strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/08/masterpiece-2772_16.html 

I have added a comment there (already approved by Mr. Melcher) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 6 works by this artist have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/01/31?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there includes eight of the artist info URLs also pointed to by here links in my blog entry comment).

No, I don’t think it looks like me at all…….

That’s, um, nice. But can you carve me a pair of clogs?

The original prototype for Barbie wasn’t a hit.

Probably no one cares, but the stick with the marshmallow-looking stuff is a distaff, holding yarn. She is also holding a smaller stick with is her spindle, on which she has been spinning yarn (which is transferred to the distaff for storage). Spinning was a portable craft that many folks (mainly women, but there were some men) carried around to work on throughout the day before industrialization priced them out. I’m not sure how the distaff plays into the portability, but I know it is possible to walk and spin at the same time. (Members of my old knitting group used to do this.)

Across the lake you will find a parasol in the water. You will want to keep your shoes off when you retrieve it.