I Highly Recommend...

... letting an artist stay at your place when you're out of town. They are capable of making everything you own seem poignant and beautiful. Even your ratty old hand-me-down furniture.

Crappy chair made object of envy by this guy. Thanks Steve!

I am in England.

Imagine my shock to wake up and find some rapscallion has been sketching my cabin!

http://sketchoftheday.blogspot.com/

What's next? Some rogue oil painter will sneak up to my mother's backyard and capture a likeness of my dog? And how will I sleep wondering if, in the night, a sculptor will break in and make a bust of my spoon collection?