There is an interactive installation component around a photo of an “outhouse race” that involves an faux outhouse photo booth situation - hence choosing the toilet paper print cardstock, which funnily enough I had in my stash.
There’s a secondary rainbow theme with decorating/"vandalizing’ the faux outhouse, which was perfect for including the rainbow “confetti” in the shaker. There are also GITD starts in there! And the background is a woodgrain texture to echo the outhouse’s construction.
I’ll get to deliver it in person, as I will be visiting my hometown area for the opening night/First Thursday event. Woohoo!
Self-critique: Because I used dies to cut the letters and wanted the “CONGRATS” to be on two equal lines, the word broke up oddly. It looks a little like GONG RATS! Then the brain corrects it to CONG RATS. Finally, “ohhhhhh. CONGRATS”! Not ideal, but… there’s obviously love and other attention-to-detail aspects in it.
I totally thought it was Gong Rats, to go with the theme. Because…
" “Gong” was Old English for both the fecal matter and medieval toilet repository, itself. Gong farmers were to work only at night. They emptied a castle’s collective cesspit every two years, but also accepted payment for individual privies, as well. They toiled for two shillings per ton — centuries before indoor plumbing arrived."
