RIP Mimi Possum

This post is a way of sharing the creation and destruction of Mimi, a possum, who met her end at the bottom of the West Asheville Bridge. This seemed like an appropriate place to tell the story. 

Mimi began as a wire frame made of coat hangers snagged from the dry cleaned clothes in my mothers closet. 

It was a crude frame resembling something like a wingless pterodactyl.

It was my first time using paper mache since 5th grade art class. Fortunately it isn't complicated, just messy. Slowly it began to resemble a possum. 

I decorated Mimi with black ribbon and a pink tail and voila! Stuffed with goodies, a few accessories added and she was ready for the party!

  

Mimi enjoyed pizza and Wedge beer with dear friends and family. But sadly, as a pinata her destiny was destruction. John and Dan brought her up to the West Asheville Bridge where she would take one last look at the city she was born in.

Friends, family and stray children gathered to participate in her destruction.

And that friends, is the story of Mimi born after 25 hours of labor and died on my 30th birthday, May 5, 2014. Many thanks to John and my parents, friends who made it out and friends around the world. RIP Mimi. 

Disclaimer: no real possums were harmed in the making of this party and The Wedge Brewery is not responsible for pinatas lowered off the West Asheville Bridge.