Topic author: Phyllis F. Mullin
Subject: Custom Painted Mixer
Posted on: 01/19/2004 10:39:21 PM
Message:

Dear Kitchenaid,
In 2002 both of my sons, my oldest son's girlfriend and myself spent the better part of 6 weeks picking out the mixer we would give my youngest son's girlfriend for Christmas. We knew it had to be a Kitchen Aid, but so many to choose from!!! She was thrilled as she had wanted a Kitchen Aid for years but since she is a student she could barely afford her tuition and thought it was just a dream. She cried on Christmas morning when she opened the box!!!
Later, on Christmas Day she and I went to the kitchen and played every "game" we could think of. I fell in love with her mixer too!!!
This year at Christmas I asked her to bring her mixer with her from Tennessee, so I could fix some goodies that my hand mixer would never make. When they got home, there seemed to be an endless stream of problems getting the mixer from the other house to mine. Either it was there and no one had a key to the house or it was in the car with my youngest while he hurried to take his grad school tests.
Imagine my surprise when on Christmas morning I was opening my "gift" when I saw the Kitchen Aid logo. However the box had been opened and retaped so I didn't get excited as I thought they were just using her box from last year to house my gift!
When I finally got the box opened, you will not believe what I saw! Not only did my son and his future wife (note the promotion) save for a year to get me a Kitchen Aid exactly like her's, she spent weeks on the phone and finally found an artist that could do what she wanted. I have attached the web address so you can see what my beautiful family did to the basic (if a Kitchen Aid could ever be basic) mixer!!!
I now spend almost half my time sitting in the kitchen enjoying looking at the mixer and planning what to use it for next! (Volcano Cake for instance). It is such a beautiful sight to wake up to everyday. The motif for the mixer is based upon my youngest son's being commissioned as a 2nd LT. in the Army this past May after 13 years as an enlisted and non-com. We are all very patroitic here as you will see.
If anyone else wants to have a mixer or other kitchen appliance done for their loved ones, I highly recommend this man. After all, the first 29 companies my girl called laughed at her but George is the man!!! My mixer is truly a work of art and one of a kind!!!!
First click on "Galleries" and then click on "Unlimited Surfaces"
http://www.sloansmotorcycle.com/sloansframes.cfm?location=www%2Ev%2Dedge%2Ecom

Sincerely,
Phyllis Mullin
Alabama Mixer MoM