Austin's popular 'Keep Austin Weird' phrase designed to promote small businesses took a bit of a twist for the 'Keep Austin Bizarre' Christmas Bazaar. After a romp at Auditorium Shores dog park with Jack, I ventured across the street to the Palmer Events Center and took a stroll through some truly unique art.
It was at this bazaar where I encountered a new BFF, Darren Minke. He's an Austin artist that created an amazing 3D graphic art masterpiece entitled Masked Beauty (see Christmas blog entry for photo). I loved it and had to have it. I loved it so much I decided to buy it in triplicate, for each of the sisters. It reminded me of New Orleans, where Katie and I took Lisa for her 18th birthday during Mardi Gras. He went to his nearby house to produce a second version on the fly that evening, but the third version was a bit of an operation involving a slew of texts and a last minute rendezvous at the Armadillo where I sweet talked my way in without having to pay the entrance fee. What a girl will do for the perfect gift.
