bunny & hortense make their debut

well, i've either stumbled upon something really cool or i have completely lost my mind!

for this year's fair foto page, bryan and i came up with the idea of taking some object - a stuffed animal maybe? - and photographing it at different spots in the fair...immediately i got so excited - my two old stuffed animals - one a bean filled bunny, the other a lamb hand-puppet - i have taken them everywhere through the years, and i've always wanted to make a kid's kind of picture book of their adventures, and they would be just PERFECT!!!!!

but Bunny is pretty much threadbare - her beans falling through several small holes - i barely move her anymore....so, if this was gonna work, the first thing i had to do was Bunny cpr...several hours later, i came up with fabric tape to patch her holes and a hand-sewn pleated apron to hide her see-through body....

now, Bunny and Hortense are ready for the fair!

so today i took them out to the big parade through town which kicks off the week-long fair....

i was pretty sure that people were going to think i was a complete nut for setting up these 2 old stuffed toys on the street and photographing them...i was all ready with some kind of explanation...but no one even gave me a look (that i noticed)

or maybe people here are just really polite...

i just found myself giggling as i shot Bunny and Hortense watching the parade (which had its own logistical issues - cos Hortense being a puppet, i had to find some means of making him upright - an empty paper towel roll did the trick - and Bunny just wanted to flop over, but Hortense's big arm helped her stay upright)...

so here is their first day in the spotlight...i think they did pretty well