At one of Heather Blakey’s older blogs called the The Writing Notebook the first prompt on 8-3-04 was about these kids in one of her classes who designed Funky Coffins ( she had them do it on paper -if I would have been their teacher I would have had them in a wood shop somewhere sawing and nailing and gluing away , but that’s me) and then they wrote pieces about death.

This is how I feel about Coffins- I’ve seen a lot of them, I’ve had to move them and polish them and put them into the ground and now I know that when I meet my maker I don’t want to be put into a coffin- I want to be stuck up in a tree and I want nature to take it’s course.

However.

I may reconsider that if I can have a Coffin like this one:

So, you may be wondering – because if you know me the words ‘ Anita Marie ‘ and

 ‘ Fine Arts’ don’t exactly go together-

why  did I chose the above coffin and not, let’s  say-

 this one:

I’ve chosen this one:

because it will send my Sister, who was a little ballerina, into hysterics.

She will certainly want a ballet slipper coffin…and so will her friends who seem to copy whatever she does, and I can think of a few of my guy friends who would go with one of these because they’re just strange ( which is why I love them so ) and before you know it-

there’s going to be a cemetery in Washington State where everyone has been buried in a giant pink ballet slipper.

My hope is that a thousand years from now this team of archaeologists will find this cemetery and when they start to unearth what has been buried there they will find…

Oh WOW.

I wish I could live forever because there is no price I would not pay to be there on the day that happens. 

A.M

 

sources and links:

pictures from BBC Nottingham homepage: Top Ten Crazy Coffins

Writing Notebook: Be Like An Athlete

CRAZY COFFINS GALLERY– the site