Pinkorama
Pinkorama #6: Carriage Troubles at the Peep-ford Arms.
Our final Pinkorama of the 10th Annual Pinkorama Contest comes from another powerhouse sister team! Candace and Cassandra bring us “Carriage Troubles at the Peep-ford Arms” from Pink III, The Deception of the Emerald Ring. In case it’s been a while since Pink III for you, Candace and Cassandra have included this handy dandy, put-your-coffee-down-before-you-snort-it-up-your-nose-laughing…
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For our fifth Pinkorama, Kayse brings us to Victorian Barbados with The Summer Peeptry! Kayse writes: “My Pinkorama depicts the opening scene of The Summer Country, when Emily, Adam, and Laura arrive at the Turners’ home in Bridgetown, Barbados. I have Emily attempting to smooth things over with Nathaniel, after Adam put his foot in his mouth…
Read MorePinkorama #4: The Garden Peeptrigue
The powerhouse sister team of Carrie and Laura bring us Pinkorama #4, The Garden Peeptrigue, from, you guessed it!, Pink IX, The Garden Intrigue! While Laura and Carrie’s craftsmanship is, as always, beyond all imagining, I think what I might love best about this entry is their description of the scene: Our ruffled romantic rhyming…
Read MorePinkorama #3: The Mark of the Midnight Manzapeep
For our third Pinkorama, Freya brings us “The Mark of the Midnight Manzapeep”, or “Stoat Iacta Est”. We find ourselves at the very end of Pink XI, The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, at a masked ball. Because, as we know, pretty much anything can happen at a masked ball. Will Lucien, Duke of Belliston,…
Read MorePinkorama #2: Wedding Peeps!
Our second Pinkorama comes from Sharon, who brings us… the wedding of the Purple Gentian from The Secret History of the Peep Carnation! Even Bonaparte can’t stop true love. With the dastardly Gaston Delaroche thwarted, the unmasked Purple Gentian and the always undaunted Amy Balcourt take to the high seas– and matrimony. It’s not every…
Read MorePinkorama #1: The Mischief of the Mistlepeep
It is with the greatest delight that I present to you the first of the 2020 Pinkoramae! May I just say that in the midst of all the fear and worry, it fills me with such joy that there are still Pinkoramae? It’s become as sure a sign of spring as the lengthening days and…
Read MorePinkorama Time!
Bring out yer Peeps! The 10th Annual Pinkorama closes tomorrow. Well, mostly. I won’t be starting to post submissions until Friday, so if you have a sudden urge to create a Peep diorama (or a non-Peep/ anything lying around the house diorama, given the difficulties in shopping this year), feel free to send in a…
Read MoreReady… Set… Peep!
Welcome the to 10th Annual Pinkorama! This year makes ten– TEN!– years of Pinkorama (aka Pink Carnation Peep Diorama). A full decade of sugary wonders created by you. If I can snatch the time another day, I’ll do a post with all ten years of Pinkorama entries, but, for now, I just wanted to say…
Read MoreThe 2019 Pinkorama Winner is….
From the sinking of the Lusitania to colonial India to the English countryside in multiple eras, this year’s Pinkoramae have taken us to all sorts of wonderful and sugary places. I don’t know about you, but Pinkorama time has become one of my favorite times of year, and this year is no exception. Thank you…
Read MoreThe 2019 Pinkorama Round-Up
So many thanks to all of this year’s Pinkorama participants! Every year, I wonder, how can these possibly live up to last year’s? And every year you somehow manage to raise the bar! This year, we’ve got ricocheting billiard balls, Star Wars memorabilia, sinking ships, and sugary skullduggery in 19th century Hyderabad. It’s impossible to…
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