Princess Peep of the Milky Way

Just want to give a shout out to one my favorite peeps – Carrie - who has crafted a tasty little diorama featuring Princess Peep of the Milky Way at the Minnesota State Fair.  For those of you who had not had the pleasure of attending The Great Get Together, we elect several princesses whose likenesses are then carved out of giant cubes of butter.  Yes, that’s right, their heads are carved out of butter.  Each day one princess poses in an air conditioned rotating glass display while an artist releases her image from butter.

Last year Princess Kay of the Milky Way was a young woman who was the third in her family to be carved in butter.  Her mom has all three butterheads in freezers in the garage.

Carrie has brought the scene to life for you, complete with fair goers with pickle-hats and food-on-a-stick.  If you MUST vote for someone other than me, I guess vote for her.  But you really should vote for me.

Sweet Martha's Cookies

Pickle Hat

Peep Crop Art

The Moo Booth

“Repeep Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman

Ready… Set… Diorama time!  That’s right lovers of all things crafty, it’s the 8th annual Pioneer Press Peep Diorama Contest.  Yaaaay!

From a simple box…

…unfolds a tale of heroism, civil disobedience and the power of candy.

From Harlan Ellison’s “Repent Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman.

“Somewhere nearby, he could hear the metronomic left-right-left of the 2:47 P.M. shift, entering the Timkin roller-bearing plant in their sneakers.  A minute later, precisely, he heard the softer right-left-right of the 5:00 A.M formation, going home” …

“Once more in anticipation, the elfin grin spread, and there was a tooth missing back there on the left side.”… “And as he pulled the trough-pins, the air-boat slid over the factory workers and one hundred and fifty-thousand dollars’ worth of jelly beans cascaded down on the expresstrip.” …

“Jelly beans!  Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape … tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness.  Jelly beans!” …

“The shift was delayed seven minutes.

They did not get home for seven minutes.

The master schedule was thrown off by seven minutes.”

The Ticktockman

 

Pretty Alice

Repeep Harlequin!

VOTE HERE!!

More photos on Flickr.

Slacker Returns – Spring Update

Hi all,

Apparently time flies when you’re overwhelmed and busy.  Spring has been unusually warm here in Minnesota, which is great, but I’m also feeling a bit stressed.  I feel both ahead (already bought stain for the deck) and behind (shouldn’t we have the deck painted already?)

Here’s a little of what I’ve been up to:

- Learned to ride a bicycle.  Wheee!  The Husband gave me a spiffy folding Dahon for my birthday and all I can say is, “Where have you been all my life?”  What on earth was I afraid of?  This is great!  Yesterday we folded up both our bikes in the car and then went to the county part where we road for one hour and 15 minutes.  I love it love it love it.

- LOST the peep diorama contest.  I mean we totally completely lost and were shamelessly DISSED by the Pioneer Press which failed to not only give us at least an honorary mention, but didn’t even name us in the article, which listed like 30 of the dioramas.  Next year it’s the D.C. contest for us.  Bastards.

- Continued to battle the attack of the scale which has devastated my plant collection.  I’ve had to throw out too many of my beloved plants.   There’s a rotating plant hospital in my entryway as I try to destroy and isolate the pests.

- Cancelled T.V.  That’s right.  We have no television in our house.  It’s kind of freeing.  You should try it.  We can watch specific shows on the internet of course, but there’s no aimlessly flipping through channels or sitting through commercials.  It’s always nice to stick it to the man.

- Took a quick trip to Missouri.  Just hanging out for a couple of days with family.  Ate at the scariest Taco Bell in Iowa. Also saw a childhood friend with whom I had lost touch.  We had such a great time – I voluntarily spent four hours with children and ENJOYED MYSELF.  We sat on the porch and drank pink lemonade.  Now I keep experiencing cravings for no-bake cookies.

- The H and I have been planning and preparing our deck & patio renovation.  We decided we just can’t go on having the saddest little patio on the block.   Especially after last year’s battle with the chipmunk-gopher-burrowing beastie wrecked such havoc on our yard.

Okay then, hope you’re all having a great spring.  I’ll try to post more for May.