Marushka!

One of my all time favorite thrift store finds, a Marushka original.
I've had the Puffins in the living room for 8 years now.
Check out some great prints here and let me know if you find one.
I've always been drawn to them, but once the print led me to a treasure. My brother used to hide bottles of booze all around Riverwest, a prank he called "A Secret To Everybody." I thought it was a silly legend, but once when I was doing some yard work, I found a little bottle of vodka. I threw it in the freezer, forgot about it until one day when I was having guest over. Brock, my brother was there and asked for a drink. I told him about the vodka in the freezer. Upon looking at the bottle he asked me where I got it. Before I could finish, it clicked and occurred to me that Brock had in fact, stuffed this bottle precariously in my bushes for me to find.
"There's a Sparks somewhere by your house too." he said.
"Where?"
"I don't know," he said, "I'll have to look at the map."
"You made a map? How many have you hid?"
"20....25."
"Let me see the map," I said.
"Never!" and that was it. Brock got drunk and the night melted away.
A month or so later, I visited Brock in his new home. I went upstairs and among the 100's of He-man and other action figures placed nicely on the shelves something stood out to me from the cluttered walls. It was this print.

"Whoa! Awesome!" I said moving towards the wall. "Where did you get that?"
"Don't touch it!" he said with a half angry grin, "Get away from that!"
I grabbed the framed cloth from the wall and a piece of paper fell to the floor. I unfolded it. Brock stood close, only helpless to the possibility that I would find his map. "You weren't supposed to see that." He laughed. At the top of the barely legible map was written "A Secret to Everybody."
"You put this in the Marushka, of course I would find it."

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