it's that time again!

What time, you ask? PEEPS DIORAMA CONTEST TIME!!!! I am pretty sure I know what I am going to do, but I need to think it through and check my supplies to be sure. One downside to the awesomeness of diorama-making -- you feel like you can never throw anything out, because what if you need it for a diorama prop? I've been box hoarding since Christmas, too, because I don't know what size and shape I'll need! The extra boxes, at least, can go once I've picked the setting.

I am happy that this year, unlike last year, they have the good sense not to start a contest dependent on Easter candy before Valentines's Day. (Although I wonder if we have the Olympics to thank for that? Bye, Olympics. I'll miss you!) Here's my prediction -- someone is going to do Miley Cyrus foam finger tweaking dance, and someone is going to do veterans storming the barricades of the WW2 memorial during the shutdown, I just know it. I can't think of what Olympics moment someone will dioramize, but someone is bound to. Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski? And I bet there's at least one Elsa in her ice castle. As ever though, I have to see it in my mind, know how I would make it, and be excited about making it, and none of those ideas are for me. (Well, maybe the Frozen one, but elaborate set designs are not my forte. Pass.)