Anita "Tart" Hart Fuller is liable to show up anytime....anywhere!

I am still in Springdale, Ark.....basking in the thrill of yesterday:  meeting Alice Walton, shaking her million dollar hand and thanking her for the museum!  That's what I called Barbara to tell her....I wanted to "one up" her a little.  Hadn't seen the blog! 

The picture was bought at auction when I had to auction my mother's furnishings.  I remember the person who bought the picture.....he asked me if I wanted it, I said no - just take it out and pitch it.  Obviously he didn't.  I know where he was living at the time, and it wasn't by Lake Doniphan - so he's either moved or sold "my" picture!   I think this is a puzzle for us Sleuths to solve.  "The Game is Afoot"

Myra:  that dress was homemade, not bought.  It had rhinestones all over it.  It was, indeed, a beautiful dress....but you can imagine that it took up half the car when I was going to a dance wearing it.   I'd give (almost) anything to know where that dress is now.

Hmmmm....let me see how I can address this without setting my dear sister-in-law on edge.  Was going to say something about how the present owner maybe thought it was some kind of valuable antique....you know, sort of like "Whistler's Mother"...but have decided to play nice.  LOL!!  That picture hung over the piano in Anita's mother's home for years.  Corinne always had a beautiful home.  She had a real knack for decorating and displaying her beautiful things.  I'll always remember that picture and the good times we had at Corinne's.  Glad it is now gracing someone else's beautiful home.

Billy was very gracious (and cautious) in his comments and compliments.  For that I thank him, and my mother thanks him. He was always one of her favorite people...

Now to address his memory:  that picture NEVER hung above the piano.  It was above the mantle (I think) in our Arch Street house....sorta like where it is hanging now. .   .at the end of the hall in her last River Oaks condo!

I was thinking more of a "Pinky" - as the partner picture of "The Blue Boy"....

WOW!  WOW!  Look at that...Ms. Anita has a FAN CLUB right here in Searcy, AR.  I LOVE this post.  Ms. Barbara is the only person I know who would be so observant as to notice something like that.

Ms. Anita, please promise me that if you ever find that dress I will get to look at it.  My mom and I used to make all of my clothes.

I don't know Mr. Billy, but Ms. Anita must be in a real sweet mood since it is Mother's Day and all.

BTW - HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY to the LADIES!  Hope you have a wonderful day.

My mother would turn over in her grave if she knew I had sold that picture, let alone at an AUCTION!  One of her last words were:  do not let people come tramping thru my house, buying my things.   I wish I could have complied with her wishes but circumstances were not in my control.  Now, in retrospect, I guess I wish I hadn't sold the picture - but it is so large I didn't know what I could have done with it.  It's a moot point, now, as Bob just said.

I know I can find out who made the dress:  it will just take me a little while but I will.  The lady who made it "sewed for the public" and made clothes and whatever for lots of Searcians.

A funny story (to me, anyway) about the dress: I have two pictures made at two different dances (I think they were both in college)....In one I had evidently forgotten to put on my criniline petticoat and the dress lies "limp" on me.  In the other pic. it is standing out like it was supposed to.  When you put the pictures side by side, you can tell.  (of course Mother was the first person to spot it)....

Enough of me:  thank you Debbie, and Happy Mother's Day to all of us mother's out there in ActiveRain Land.

I think it's time for another blog, Barb!  

Ms. Anita, enjoy smiling for the camera.  I really enjoy looking at your picture (I'll confess - and the dress - smiles)...

The house isn't bad either...I really even know where that house is located...it is a rather pretty location...I've admired it ever since we moved here.

Barbara,  Thank you for posting the pictures of my mom.  She is so pretty and since I didn't know her then, it's fun to see that she really was a young lady once.  She remains one of my favorite people in the world. 

Karen Fuller

Thank you one and all.   I"m blushing!

And Barbara, ask the man how much he would take for the picture....you've shamed me into wanting it back.