It isn’t marzipan

I got an email a couple of days ago that had a lot of photos included of tiny baby sculptures.  The email claimed that the sculptures were made of marzipan.  Well, the sculptures were truly remarkable, but I found that they were not of marzipan.  They are porcelain.  Extreme talent, big money!  I wish I had that kind of talent!  The artist’s name is Camille Allen, and she sells her sculptures on the Internet.  I was enjoying looking at her website and was reading about how some of her scultures are one of a kind, but some are reproduced in resin in bulk in China.  I found it interesting that the website explains that the only reason they are made in China is because there are no manufacturers in the USA that are capable of producing them. 

I think that is part of the problem with our struggling economy – too many of our industrial jobs have left the country and gone overseas to countries with lax environmental laws and cheap labor.  Well, this post wasn’t going to be preachy about our economy….. but it turned out that way!

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