The 2020 Pinkorama Round-Up
Calling all 2020 Pinkorama participants to take a bow! (Or curtsy.) After six days of superlative sugary creations, it’s time for the 2020 Pinkorama Round Up! This year, we’ve got nativity plays gone wrong, a pirate as parson, flying attack stoats, an unusually tongue-tied poet, a Victorian parlor in Barbados, and a botched elopement in the…
Read MorePinkorama #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…
Read MorePinkorama #5: The Summer Peeptry
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 MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve been happily living in the post-World War II era all this week with more mystery novels by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Patricia Wentworth. This week, it was Mary Roberts Rinehart’s ominously titled The Swimming Pool, in which the descendant of a once wealthy New York family, now eking out a living writing novels at…
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 MoreTHE ENGLISH WIFE: Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
If you’re looking to restock your Kindle for at-home reading, I’m delighted to announce that The English Wife is today’s Kindle Daily Deal! For today only, The English Wife is being discounted to $1.99 across all e-book platforms, so you can grab it up for your Kindle, Nook, or clay tablet. Well, maybe not the…
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…
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