Edgar and the Mannequin-Head: Christmas Fable

A mall clerk makes a mannequin head-bust sculpture and earns enough money in Christmas art-sales to fund hid dream-voyage to sunny California.

Edgar worked at the Franklin Mills shopping-mall on the East Coast (USA) but dreamed of traveling to California where he could entreat his daydream if surfing on the beaches if the blue Pacific. Edgar was a sentimental sort and liked collecting Valentine's Day cards. He wouldn't give the cards to anyone as gifts but rather just kept them for himself, for some kind of strange sentimental value. He must've collected at least 400 Valentine's Hallmark cards within the span of 3 years, using his salary from his mall job as a sales-clerk to indulge his sentimental hobby. He continued to daydream about going to California to surf but still never worked up the necessary gumption.

One day, while working at the mall, Edgar's boss told him the women's clothing section on the 3rd floor was getting rid of its old batch of fashion mannequin dolls. Edgar's boss said since he knew Edgar had a strange sentimental hankering for items of romantic value (e.g., Valentine's Day cards), he might consider taking a mannequin doll home with him to make some sort of artsy home-sculpture (perhaps a toast to the Greek goddess Athena!). Edgar's boss had always been surprisingly and occasionally fond of entreating his employees' more eccentric or charming sides and would generally be cheerful towards Edgar's sweet if eccentric sentimental appreciation of items of romantic/spiritual value(!).

Edgar agreed to take a look at the stock of the mall's female mannequin dolls being discarded and actually liked his boss's friendly/artistic suggestion to 'save' one of these mannequins before they ended up in a proverbially gloomy mannequin graveyard. Edgar found a peculiarly nice redheaded mannequin he thought he could make a nice home sculpture with, especially since the doll's special copper-esque shiny red hair made her seem colorfully and attractively Irish. Edgar took his salvaged Irish mannequin home and dressed it up in the garage of his condo and named her Christine. Edgar started oddly falling in love with his Irish mannequin Christine. He decided to outfit her in a homemade green sequin gown.

Two weeks later, Edgar decided to purchase potter's/sculptor's clay and start making head-bust replicas of Christine's head, complete with red shiny hair(!). Edgar had always been a fan of sculpture and dabbled in the craft while taking art classes in college. Edgar made over 30 head-bust replicas of Christine's head in the span of the next three months and arrayed them in his condo garage. One weekend, he invited his boss to peruse his new artistic sculpture collection of Christine-heads. His boss agreed to visit him in his condo on Saturday afternoon and was very impressed with Edgar's Christine head-bust replicas arrayed all around his condo garage. Edgar's boss suggested he start trying to sell these artistic mannequin head-bust replicas online (at an art bazaar!) for money. He also nudged Edgar to use his artistic/romantic side to try to meet a 'real-life girl' to date (so he wouldn't be a 'perpetual loner').

Well, Edgar decides to fashion his Christine head-bust replicas/sculpture with red-and-green make-up paint and home-crafted jewelry and try to sell them online as Christmas dolls. Red and green were after all the iconic colors of Christmas and Edgar's creative use of the iconic color-pairing did indeed make his 'Christine Christmas head-sculptures' seem rather magical. Edgar took professional photos of his head-busts and posted them on his online Christmas Sculpture Shop. Within one week, Edgar got over 1,000 requests for his Christine Christmas head-sculptures from around the country! Edgar was thrilled and overjoyed, and he decided to use the money from the sales to fund his California surfing trip the following summer. That's just what Edgar did...

The next summer, Edgar drove cross-country to California to learn how to surf. With him, for his artistically-earned summer journey, he bought one of his Christine head-busts, one he never sold but kept for sentimental value. When he got to California, he met a beautiful young woman named Shelbye, an artist(!), who loved his Christine head-bust sculpture. The two began dating, and Shelbye told him she wanted Edgar to make a head-bust sculpture of her, and if he did, she'd teach him to surf. Edgar had begun his new life, and he felt he owed everything, all his good fortune...to old Christine(!).