Flower-Power

I found this metal flower at Bookman's for $5.50.
http://bookmans.com.

This website has something slightly similar:
http://www.countryporch.com/darice/view.asp?item=106-4740M

Amazon has something in the neighborhood:
http://amzn.to/1nt2L9Z

Bookman's description says they buy, sell, and trade the following:
used books, music, movies, video games & musical instruments.


They also carry lots of very random knick knacks.  They have a separate area for the non-book, non-DVD, non-musical items, but they also have knick knacks interspersed between the various book genres and they do a fantastic job with matching the knick knacks to the book genre.
  
For example, I was validated and amused to see a benign enough looking clown sitting on a small floating shelf, next to  used books in the Horror genre.  I'm in that category, dare I say the majority, who sees clowns for what they are:  People in disguise who can literally get away with murder or any other crime and remain justifiably anonymous, due to their culturally acceptable costume. Nevertheless, a part of me felt bad for the clown because I doubt it's creator wanted it to the representation of evil incarnate, sitting next to used Horror novels.  It's creator, most likely meant it to be a comfort for small children, who's brains aren't yet developed enough to sense evil. 

In the "Beauty" section is where I found this too-cool flower. At first, I thought it was just a flower statue, knick-knack, but soon realized it was for holding jewelry.  My mom told me that earrings go into the perforated holes in the flower petals. Shows, how much I know about jewelry, let alone beauty, in general.  I keep all my "jewelry" in a painted, porcelain, flip flop box, I painted at one of those paint your own pottery places. I've never been huge into beauty products but this flower jumped into my Bookman's basket and made itself right at home with a plastic-bird-house church tower.  

The Sociology section had two carved wooden heads, male and female.  The Medical section had a small wooden Pharmacy and so forth.  It's too fun. I didn't pay attention to the non-book items in the "Self-Help" section because I was too busy trying not to laugh at the book titles.  Also, I was "cashe-trophizing" that someone would snag my flower while I was distracted by titles such as: "Why Men Marry Bitches" and "Strangling Your Husband is Not an Option." 
"Why Men Marry Bitches" is going this second, on Amazon for less than $14.00 http://amzn.to/WI5cvt.


"Strangling Your Husband is Not an Option" is available at Amazon too: http://amzn.to/1urce6A.

I think authors and publishers are on to something with this catchy title phenomenon.  They definitely caught my attention.

Another title that caught my attention was in the "Writing" section, entitled: "The Writer Got Screwed but Didn't Have to." http://amzn.to/1t8FFc1. I may go back and snag that one, someday, if it's still there. I mean, why get screwed, if you don't have to?

The point is, I could spend all day at Bookman's but usually only have a couple hours to spare, which feels more like 10 minutes.  I think I did an okay job snagging this flower find and maybe it will inspire me to wear more jewelry...goodness knows I could use some bling in my life.