Two artists crafted a landscape scene made out of a thousand pounds of butter

It turns out butter, and a lot of it, can be used for art. Artists Jim Victor and Marie Pelton used a thousand pounds of the dairy product in their latest sculpture. That’s right, one-thousand-pounds of butter.

Victor and Pelton’s sculpture depicts a landscape of farms and hillsides that eventually become a forrest. Their work is currently on display at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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A house in, where else, Texas is shaped like a cowboy boot and up for rent

If you’re in the market for a new house but sick of your run of the mill options, you might want to check out Dan Phillips’ house in Houston, Texas. The two bedroom, one bathroom abode is shaped like a cowboy boot.

Phillips says he was inspired by “The Old Woman Who Lived in A Shoe” nursery rhyme. “I’ve always been fascinated since I was a child to build houses that looked like the houses in story books – to do child-like designs and use a lot of whimsy,” he explains. “A life without whimsy is certainly a non-life.”

The boot is attached to a more conventionally shaped house next door and what’s more, it’s made of mostly reclaimed materials including cork, old picture frames and even old CDs. If you want to spend some time in the boot, it’ll cost you about $1,220 a month.

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Atlanta’s Snow Mountain had to close because, well, there was too much real snow on the mountain

Atlanta’s Snow Mountain is known as a place to go tubing, build snowmen and do some “snowball shooting” but they rely on man-mad snow: roughly 360-tons of the stuff every day, to be exact.

When Georgia was actually hit with some snow, however, Snow Mountain had to shut down because of the weather. The mountain appreciated how crazy the situation was, sharing the closure on Facebook and adding “Yes, we are aware of the irony.”