The
Wee
Peeple
Newsletter
December
2013
Issue
82
So, what happened after
Thanksgiving?
Well, pretty much more
Thanksgiving.
Now, at the Faire, on the
last day...
Remember
Ye Olde Masked, Mysterious
Raven Man with the
Remarkable Tattoo?
Human Cousin of Raven
Dolls... surrounded
at all times with people pointing phones and cameras...
Well, the Dollmaker and Company
were busy Giving Thanks
that the faire was finally
almost over
when Raven Man- Unmasked-
therefore
Incognito, returned.
Regarding the Identity of the Noble Birdman,
(even though he remains an enigma still...)
it did not take long for the Dollmaker to connect
the ink dots.
He was so pleased to have been recognized,
he agreed to contemplate the Mysteries of the
Universe
in front of the Wee Peeple Doll Shoppe Sign...
So, that's how it ended.
With sacred tattoos, scattered leaves, heaters,
breaker boxes, and turkey.
Songs were sung, dolls were sold, fees were
paid, and Holidays were celebrated.
And then... Surprisingly...
The Dollmaker actually won an
"Honorable Mention"
for her
"Heraldic Banner"!
A Prize of $500 toward the 2014 Show Fee!
well... yes. certainly... Yes, it WAS
heraldic...
in the style of bare-chested Minoan Snake
Goddesses...!
(the judges could, no doubt, appreciate ancient
symbolism!)
And the Grande Finale- Boarding up the Doll
Shoppe...
Big thanks goes out to
Caleb and Charles Moore
for helping the Dollmaker
lug boxes and stack furniture and close up for
the year.
Goodbye Texas Renaissance Festival. See you in
2014!
and suddenly it was
It's not even shocking anymore...
that Dolls can find Relationships through
Facebook.
These Dolls Did.
Dolls have Journeys too!
Remember how Dave Sheppard made that cool Tree
Sculpture
using cans of Spray Foam Insulation?
er...well... the Dollmaker is still working on hers...
an autobiographical account in graphic novel
format:
This is how Dave created His Foam Tree.
He started with a mound of damp sand...
Pretty clever of him!
Moo.
Thanks to this woman:
The Dollmaker now knows about
Moo.
;
Such a jolly idea!
The Moo
Mini-cards.
The Dollmaker had
100 Mini-cards
made this month...
with
her own photographs
on
the backs
The text is the same on the front of all
100 cards...
but you can use your own
photos for the backs of the cards
...up to 100 photos.... each one could
be different.
Check Moo out at:
http://us.moo.com/products/minicards.html
Tell them Kandra Niagra sent you!
Yes, there is such a thing as
The Law of Large Numbers
Yes! How
performing the same experiment a large number of
times
tends to clarify the probabilities....
speaking of Large Numbers...
In the Provincial Village of
Smithville, Texas, the Talk, these days
is of Mice.
Presumably owing to the scarcity of
natural predators since the fire,
Fancy-free Mice,
multiplying with wild abandon, have begun to seriously Impinge.
Animal overpopulation,
essentially a "Natural
Occurrence", like "Wild Fire",
can serve to "educate"
certain species higher on the Food Chain...
The Dollmaker now knows things like:
Mice can climb.
She also learned to
Recognize the Presence of Mouse Droppings
as a
Reliable Indicator that mice have walked across
the freshly laundered and
folded towels on the
high shelf where no mouse could possibly go......
and..
Mice are
sexually mature at {a mere} four weeks of age!
(quickly doing the math: a
family of
6
mice can become a family of
60
mice in 3 months.)
-
So the Dollmaker was looking around for some Bait
for her Box-style "Varmint" Trap-
when she found an old Fortune Cookie in a drawer-
Hey- why not? Mice love sugar...
She unwrapped it, tossed the Fortune Cookie into the trap...
and promptly caught three Mice with that one Cookie...
the totality of which the voracious rodents ate with wolverine-like efficiency... leaving
The Fortune
left curled up by itself in the trap.
Uh-oh...Wait! What's this?
A Random Variable?
A gleefully spontaneous Potentiality dependent entirely upon Chance?
You KNOW that the Dollmaker's Mind literally Seized Upon this Moment!
she just Had to Know if
somehow A Random Fortune from a Cookie long lost in a kitchen drawer
could possibly contain a message Relevant to the Situation...
She picked it up and uncurled it:
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Probability
is a measure of the likelihood
of the occurrence of an event.
Probability Theory
is the study of...
Random Phenomena.
...as in... one day... Erika messages the
Dollmaker...
Could you use Fifty Watches? she says...
I'll mail them to you!
Yikes! You betcha! Thank you Erika!
So Inspiring to have a nice big pile of Miniature Time
Machines!
"I am only an egg."
-from Stranger in a Strange
Land by Robert Heinlein
...and here is a picture of
Darling Daughter Shannon at
Work
delivering Free-Range
Chicken Eggs
to neighbors in
Austin, Dallas and San Antonio...
Not in a small basket...
...but in an Enormous Truck!
Mama MIA!
Safe Travels to you,
Shannon.
Speaking with a Black
Leopard
http://www.animalspirit.org/
Now, is it possible to get into
communication with the
Mice?
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