The Frig'

It occurred to me while taking this photo in remembrance of the Healdsburg Antique Fair of which I had a booth with my Floral and Hardy creations...that I have expressed my creativity on more than one refrigerator over the years. Museum worthy pieces of art. Interesting to look with a grin at least. 

It started when I began collecting old Look magazines when working for an architectural antique company in the early '70's. We would purchase large items for our boss who held auctions catering to interior decorators, restaurant owners, and celebrities. The little items were ours to keep so I collected things like old bottles, gingerbread (fancy pieces of wood) and other fun items.

Typically a collage made with old kitchen/food related ads from magazines from the '50's and 60's went on them. Great art and obviously thought (I learned this from Mad Men) went into creating those ads.

This is from one I covered in 2009. My friend Betty gave this refrigerator to me to put in my garage for my essential oils and other ingredients for Tat Jam. It was probably from the 70's, large and with character. However, it was an ugly grey. I tried spray painting it black but there were spots the paint didn't go on too smoothly so I started covering them up and got carried away as I do when I go on a decorating tangem.

I should have gotten a closer up shot of the ad entitled "Bringing Up Grandma". She's talking to her grand-daughter who she endearingly calls Puss about Kellogg's Bran Flakes keeping you regular. No way Don Draper thought of that one.

Betty's old frig didn't get full collage coverage like it should have. Guess I ran out of steam. I sold this frig in 2012 when I moved from Windsor to Healdsburg. It traveled from Indiana to California with me in 2010. It was an energy gobbler and very large. I sold it to a young guy that gave me the runaround then finally picked it up for $50. Actually, I ended up giving him back $20 because he said he didn't have any food to put in it because he spent his grocery money on the frig.

Hopefully he appreciated the humorous artistic nature of this exquisite piece.