what i think is whimsy…
this might be whimsy as well
I kept thinking that having a garden railway was the whimsical pursuit until this years Dave Taylor’s MIK challenge was to make something whimsical for your whimsical pursuit railway.
Now of course, we are discussing what we define as whimsy. I of course thought whimsy was defined as “does it make me smile?”. I had to shelve that idea this year as I was smiling with every entry.
Who would have thought:
- A boot?
- A dog park?
- A golden chook?
- Jules Verne?
- Mad Max(s)?
- A gym?
- A Japanese cartoon?
- A mini-streamliner?
- Back to the Future?
- A passenger car to steam engine conversion?
Am I missing anyone?
Every entry showed skill and prowess. They made me smile. I really smiled when I thought about this years entries being entered into a serious competition attended by rivet counters.
I still feel like I have a whimsy deficiency. But wow, hopefully this won’t be the last You Got Some Splaining to Do! contest.
Interestingly if I was asked which of this years entries met with the most You Got Some Splaining to Do!, my answers would have been quite different… hmm.