Project Peepway

Peeps®!
Recipes and Crafts to Make with Your Favorite Marshmallow Treat
By Charity Ferreira
Photographs by Liz Wolfe

Description from publisher's site:
Peeps®! -- For Peeps sake! They're cute. They're tasty. And for the first time ever, PEEPS—the No. 1 selling non-chocolate Easter candy—take center stage in fun crafts and sweet treats for the entire family. Both seasonal savorers and devoted PEEPS fans (who have created over 200 dedicated fan Web sites) will delight in these 24 projects, surprisingly suited for any time of the year.

Frosty Peepsicles refresh on a hot summer day; the Peeps Holiday Wreath brightens up a winter doorway; and the Peepiñata enlivens any fiesta. Cheerful, mouthwatering photographs inspire while simple step-by-step instructions explain the how-to. Games, decorations, and desserts never looked so adorably edible!

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While I'm not a fan of eating Peeps, the creativity that comes out with using Peeps for art or explosions in the microwave for sport amuse me.

Had to share this video that was created as a book trailer of sorts for the Peeps book:



I agree with who was selected as the winner of the challenge.

Feathers really add to an ensemble ;-D

Easter Pants

Happy Easter!

What I want to know is what happened to the boy's pants?

That chick-ee looks suspicious...

tee-hee

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* no IMM from me today, but lots of giveaways on my sidebar

* image source Victorian Easter greetings

Whimsical Fabric Created on Project Runway

I gotta give props to one of my guilty pleasures - Project Runway. Last year I highlighted a vampire steampunk number created by Christopher Straub.

Now, at the tail-end of season 7, I've come across an outfit that wow-ed me that I just have to share. It was not the winning piece but made it to the judges' top 3.

The challenge was to create a design which would be made into fabric. Then, using the fabric make a signature piece.

The image above is the fabric design used for the outfit below. Seth mentioned something about it being punk rock meets London. I love it. You can see a face with big blue eyes, lips and blonde hair. If they sold the fabric, I definitely would buy it and make a tote bag for my book shopping sprees.



Hey, That’s My Fabric
Season 7, Episode 10
Seth Aaron's Design
Modeled by Valeria

Have you been watching the show this season?

If so, which outfit has wow-ed you?

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* image source from Project Runway

Alice in Verse by J.T. Holden

Alice in Verse:
The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland
by J.T. Holden
illustrated by Andrew Johnson

Published: 2010
Genre: Poetry
Hardback: 112 pages
Rating: 5

Description from the amazon:
Have you ever wondered...

Who really stole the Queen's tarts? Whatever did become of the Walrus & the Carpenter after their nefarious jot down the briny beach with the little Oysters? Is there truly any sense to be found in nonsense at all?

Come follow Alice down the rabbit-hole once again as Lewis Carroll's timeless classic is reimagined through the lyrical language of Wonderland...where a Caterpillar dispenses an indelible lesson, a Cat offers safe haven and (fairly) sound advice, and a Hatter and Hare throw a mad tea party before matching wits at the trial of the century!

Limited Hardcover Edition with introduction by the author and over 35 pages of all-new illustrations.


My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): puzzling paths

Such a gem of a book!

Certain parts of Alice in Wonderland have been retold in poetry form in this book with amusing and delightful illustrations. It's one of those books that is fun to read aloud. In fact, should be read aloud! The words just tickle the brain and mouth.

I was thrilled to see and read a chapter on my favorite characters, Dee and Dum. Like the Cheshire Cat above, the Tweedles were not of the roly-poly sort.

Favorite illustration:
There is one with a caterpillar with mechanical-like wings attached to its back and wheels at its tail-end. It looks steampunky to me and you know how I'm into that steampunk aesthetic.

*** Alice Book Giveaway ***

If you haven't already, signup to win this book which ends April 11, 2010.

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* giveaway prize
courtesy of Candleshoe Books
Thanks Derek!

* part of Alice in Whatsitland

The Girl Who Played with Fire dress

If books were dresses...

(a weekly post where I create fashionable wear with book cover art)

The Girl Who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larsson - my review
Translated: Reg Keeland

Paperback version released: March 2010

Description from the amazon:
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.

But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander—the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire.

As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.

Millenium (dress) Series:



The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
4th book may or may not see the light

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* if you would like to learn how to make your own Book Fashion silhouette, let me know in comments and I'll send you a how-to

* source for silhouette