That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 19, 2018

“Who needs friends when I have these.”

She always had the basket of human heads for sale as a backup if her doll crafting career didn’t take off.

We have a shop like this in my town. It’s crowded with more saint images than you can shake a stick at, in all sizes and price ranges. You can also buy them in the “euro stores” but often with the labels switched, since the people in the far east who make them don’t know who they are and care less. So you can find a statue of Our Lady of Fatima labelled “St Francis” or whatever.

Although the company expanded into other idles and religions, The Dashboard Virgin Mary remained their number one best seller.

Watch her jump when I stick a pin in her voodoo doll.

The demand for Salome dolls had become so pressing, she didn’t have time to do anything with the basket of heads that Selim the Barbary pirate had dropped off on Monday…..and they were getting a tad ripe.

What kind of chair is that? It looks too modern for 1893.

Inside Amazon Warehouse Deals, “Religion” department.

“I don’t care if it rains or freezes/Long as I got my plastic Jesus/On the dashboard of my car…”

Short, Radish and Strobe: You may have hit on something here. Dashboard Jesus in hula skirt.

Gives new meaning to the term “painted woman”

Just wait till these come to life and start attacking everyone.

Tanagra Workshop: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_Painting_Breathes_Life_into_Sculpture.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/g/gerome/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/gerome1.html 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/jean-l%C3%A9on-g%C3%A9r%C3%B4me/ 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/9 

http://hoocher.com/Jean_Leon_Gerome/jean_leon_gerome.htm 

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/exhibitions-archives/article/jean-leon-gerome-25691.html 

all have info about this artist. So far, 20 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/12/22?comments=visible 

has the prior work (which had to the same last 3 artist info URLs in my comment there).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1935 (April 18, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Although there hadn’t been much interest in her funeral masks lately, Gina was sure her new line of house icons would go like hot cakes.

Her back is going to hurt like heck from sitting like that.

hey now ladies be sure to pick up the paper on the floor too.

Her painted condoms were very popular with the ladies.

Idol hands are the Devil’s workshop!

“Nah, nah, ya’ll go mingle and network. I’ll just be sitting here……doing the real work.”