The Great Mouse Giveaway
It's craft night at the homestead. My artsy sisters from Manhattan brought all kinds of projects for us to work on. I chose the mouse ornament project. Before giving me the materials, my sister Annie told me I had to read a story first to understand the project I was about to begin. It was called "Mother's Christmas Mouse" from the October Ensign magazine. If you don't want to read it, I'll summarize. A woman's rheumatic mother made her a Christmas ornament but it was really crazy looking because the mother wasn't able to use her hands very well. The point was that even though the ornament was ugly, she knew her daughter loved her enough to appreciate the effort and treasure the ornament.
So I just HAD to make an ugly mouse ornament. My sister had bought all the supplies required to duplicate the article's ugly mouse and I set to work. My first attempt was indeed ugly, but I was sure I could do worse. My second mouse made my siblings gasp in shock and by the third mouse, I was certain I had ugly down pat. I ended up making 20 mice tonight and so in the spirit of giving, I'd like to share some with you deserving readers.
I'm giving away four of these misunderstood mice with the hope that those who receive them will look past their unsightliness and into their nutty hearts of gold. Love me, love my mice. So here's how you get one. Just leave a comment. Any comment. Yeah, it's that easy. I tried to think up a good contest idea but it's three in the morning and I'm brain dead. I'll draw four comments randomly - the more comments you leave, the better chance you have at winning one of these truly awful prizes.
Sorry, anonymous commenters can't win because I won't know where to send your mouse but feel free to drop a comment anyway. The winners will be announced at the end of the day on Saturday and I'll send your mouse in the mail. They probably won't arrive on time for Christmas, but they'll be fun for scaring the be-jeebers out of stray cats any old day of the week.
Who wants one?
So I just HAD to make an ugly mouse ornament. My sister had bought all the supplies required to duplicate the article's ugly mouse and I set to work. My first attempt was indeed ugly, but I was sure I could do worse. My second mouse made my siblings gasp in shock and by the third mouse, I was certain I had ugly down pat. I ended up making 20 mice tonight and so in the spirit of giving, I'd like to share some with you deserving readers.
I'm giving away four of these misunderstood mice with the hope that those who receive them will look past their unsightliness and into their nutty hearts of gold. Love me, love my mice. So here's how you get one. Just leave a comment. Any comment. Yeah, it's that easy. I tried to think up a good contest idea but it's three in the morning and I'm brain dead. I'll draw four comments randomly - the more comments you leave, the better chance you have at winning one of these truly awful prizes.
Sorry, anonymous commenters can't win because I won't know where to send your mouse but feel free to drop a comment anyway. The winners will be announced at the end of the day on Saturday and I'll send your mouse in the mail. They probably won't arrive on time for Christmas, but they'll be fun for scaring the be-jeebers out of stray cats any old day of the week.
Who wants one?
Comments
Be sure to send Ellen one, with her card. ;)
WRONG! Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out "dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish. Wallowing in freakish misery forever.
:)
(falls off chair chuckling hysterically at Spike)
I like the Ninja one! He looks like he's ready for anything, even a potatoe masher.
Cute idea Hollywood :))
Slainte~
Rachelle
(still chuckling)
Is the last one one of the 3 blind mice??
I am afraid to comment for fear of winning...
I'll see how many more I can crank out before Christmas and see if I can't give away a bunch. But like Heffalump says, be careful of commenting because you might actually have to receive one of these hideous beasts in the mail. I, personally, would rather receive a severed limb.
Holy Toledo, those are some "unique" mice!
As a pet rat owner, I adore rodents, and I love all of your Frankenmice :)
Coincidentally, I have a mouse-nut (wait, nut-mouse?) Christmas tree, and I will reserve a place of honor at the top of said mouse-tree for your mouse should I be lucky enough to win one :)
I love the one with the green plaid head scarf. Those are just adorable, and look like something my kids would enjoy making. I can't help but think "we're all a little nuts."
I'll say so.