News of the Odd

There's a story about a lady in north Mississippi that has recently come to my attention. She's an artist who paints using...fingernail polish. The Commerical Appeal ran a story about her and included a photo of her work.
Mary Lola Scott, 54, of Horn Lake, paints portraits, landscapes and still lifes with nail polish. She has to paint fast with her tiny nail brush before the quick-drying polish gets hard as cement. Folks at Ripley's Believe It or Not say Scott may be the world's only nail polish master, and have purchased 11 of her works to hang in Ripley museums around the world. It takes about 30 bottles of paint to do an average painting, and no, they don't chip. "You can't even sand off the colors," she said. They cost $500 to $4,000. Very interesting.