Exciting News!!!

We got some exciting news today.   The Peeps diorama that Claire and I made was selected as one of the top ten!!   There is online voting until Sunday at 5 pm.

We'd really appreciate anyone who clicks on the following link and votes for us.

Ours is the 2012 London Olympeeps.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/28/3842413/vote-now-for-your-favorite-peeps.html#tvg

Claire is so excited...the whole olympic theme was her idea! :)

Peeps!!

It's that time of year again! Time for our local paper's Peep's Diorama contest. Claire and I have entered for the last two years. Last year we made it to the finals and came in 9th in the online voting. We turn in our entry today so wish us luck on making it to the finals again!  Our theme this year is "Olym-peeps."  Claire picked it out.  She actually came up with it almost 2 years ago, but I talked her into waiting until the year of the summer Olympics.

Here's the complete diorama...

  

The Peep on the beam and the judges...



The weight lifting Peeps!

The medal winners...yes, they are all from the USA!



The rythmic gymnast...



The swimmers getting ready to dive into the pool...

The Crowd...

Claire has her heart set on winning so I sure hope we make the final ten again this year!! 



Please vote

The diorama contest for my son's bookclub ends tomorrow. Right now there is a 3 way tie! We really could use some other votes and hopefully we'll break the tie. :) The post is here: http://aimeesland.blogspot.com/2011/03/peeps-diorama-contest.html Please click on the link and vote for your favorite diorama by using the comment section. I really appreciate all the votes from my fellow bloggers!

Exciting news!

Remember the Peeps Diorama Claire and I made for our newspaper's annual contest?

"Peeping Beauty"

Well, it made it into the top 10! We are so excited...especially Claire! The voting is now open and we would really appreciate it if you'd follow the link below and vote for ours. Feel free to post this link on your blog or facebook page too. We are behind in the voting and need all the help we can get! There's one made by a bunch of kids from a school so I think they must have the whole school voting for theirs!

Here's the link: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/04/05/2976513/pick-the-peeps-diorama-winner.html#tvg

I linked up with Amy's Round Robin today. Hop on over to her blog if you'd like to play along!

Peeps Diorama Contest

If you read my last post you know that we've been making Peeps dioramas for the contest in our newspaper. I had Nathan's bookclub make them too, but with a twist...they all had to be a classic work of literature. Five of the bookclub kids participated. I think they did a great job!

All of them will be entered in our newspaper's contest, but I am also having a contest on my blog for just the book club kids. So please leave a comment telling me which is your favorite diorama. (just vote for one please!) I have a prize that I'm going to give to the child with the most votes. I have 3 pictures of each diorama...1 that shows the complete diorama and 2 close-ups that show detail. It would really help us out if you could vote for one!

1. Little Peeps on the Prairie:

2. Gulliver and the Lilli-peep-tians:

3. Peep the Raven Nevermore:

4. Peeperbury Tales:

5. Peeper Pan:

Didn't the kids do a good job? Please vote for your favorite. Please only vote once and immediate family members of the book club kids may not vote at all! :)

Voting ends Wednesday, April 13th.

If you want to see the one Claire and I made (which is not up for voting) you can scroll down or go here.

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge: Spring peeps

It's time for another L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge hosted by Home is where you start from. This week's theme is Spring. Well, what says spring better than Peeps? You know those tasty little marshmallow rabbits and chicks that come around each year! Each Spring our Newspaper hosts a Peeps diorama contest. Claire and I entered one last year...just a basic little shoebox diorama. Some people really go all out though so we tried something a little more creative this year. Peeping Beauty...

The above picture is my entry into the L.E.N.S. photo challenge, but I thought since we worked so hard on the details I'd show some close up pictures too. :)

Here is Peeping Beauty and her Prince. See the little pillow claire made her? And notice her bed is made from Peeps bunnies!

And you couldn't have Peeping Beauty without those magical little fairies, now could you?

I actually had Nathan's book club make peeps dioramas too, but I gave them a theme. They had to do it based on a classic piece of literature. They did a great job. In a couple of days I'm actually going to hold a contest on my blog and ask my readers to vote for their favorite. The winner gets a prize pack from me. So, check back here in a couple of days to see theirs and vote. :)