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[Susan Lin]

A Baronial "Flat Stanley"!

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Serena asked about what could hang off the elephant's trunk.  Well, just
> about anything that a trunk could pick up.  Actual elephants have been used
> to pick up tree trunks to clear paths.  I had envisioned the trunk curling
> up around the handle of something like a bucket.
>
> More crazy ideas... How about a figure of the Baron sitting in the howdah?
>  How about the elephant's tail curled around and holding the baronial
> standard?  Perhaps the poop could be in baronial colors.  There certainly
> could be a large (blanket/fabric covering) draped over the elephant
> (something like a large saddle blanket) decorated in baronial colors or with
> the baronial arms.
>
> If doing a sugar paste figure of the baron is too labor-intensive, what
> about a small photo, cut out around his shape, and attached to a flat piece
> of sugar paste, bent to sit in the howdah... or standing alongside the
> elephant...  A 2-D body might work...
>
> How crazy can we get since we aren't at Pennsic?  (First one I've missed in
> 22 years.)
>
>
> Alys K.
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> Elise Fleming
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