Craft
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10/14/04 Paper
Mache Bones - I wanted to make some Halloween decorations, and thought
bones would look cool hanging from the hand rail outside on the steps.
I first created an armature from chicken wire, wear gloves! Then I paper
mached the frame with newspaper strips, and a mixture of white glue and
water. After they were dry, I painted them white, with gray outline, and
a little bit of glow it the dark paint. When the paint was dry, I applied
the red glitter. To hang them, I will probably poke a hole in the top
and tie some ribbon through the wire frame. |
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10/14/04
Skull Paper Lantern - I like pumpkins. I think they're cool, but they always
rot, and its messy. So, I made a paper mache skull (probably not any less
messy). I used a 12 inch balloon, but didn't blow it up all the way. I wrapped
a piece of masking tape around the middle to give it more of a skull shape.
Then I wrapped it in saran wrap. The first time I didn't and the balloon
stuck to the paper mache and when I popped it, it sucked in on itself. So,
saran wrap is good. Then I used wallpaper paste, but I think any clear gluey
substance would work. I cut up big sheets of white tissue paper into 6x6
inch pieces. (I started to use tiny pieces and there isn't any reason to
use tiny pieces unless you are a sadist.) The easiest way was to wet the
whole thing with paste then stick the tissue over it and squish it flat.
I put on 2-3 layers. When it is all dry, you can pop the balloon and pull
it and the saran wrap out. And cut out the eyes, nose, mouth, and a hole
in the top for the heat to ventilate. I also put in a piece of foil that
I had filled with sand to weigh it down, and placed the tea candle on top
of that. |
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10/14/04
Day of the Dead Lady - Day of the Dead is so cool, and I love Mexican folk
art. Mine is not as good as the real thing, but it still turned out rather
well. I made the lady out of sculpey and used a little bit of wire to lend
support to her legs, arms and neck. The lady isn't complete without a glitter
dress and cigarette. The egg is made from styrofoam. I carved the niche
into it with an exacto knife. The sequins are held in place with sequin
pins and tiny seed beads. The ribbon is pinned and glued on. |
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10/14/04
Elmo Scarf - So this is my Elmo scarf, that took me all summer to knit.
(I'm very slow.) I call it the Elmo scarf, because the yarn looks like someone
took Tickle-me-Elmo and put him in the blender and came out with yarn. I
used a size 11 needle, 15 stitches across. Nothing fancy, except the yarn.
It is Lana Grossa Pep yarn. It is so soft. It would make a really fun bikini! |
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10/14/04
Army man bowl - My friend Emily and I wanted to make an army man bowl, because
we had seen one in Ready Made magazine that was 99lbs. (British money not
weight) So, we went on an adventure looking for little plastic figures to
melt. Oh ha ha. We lined a glass bowl with the plastic men, up the sides
too. First we tried melting them with a torch, then when the bowl shattered
we realized it was melting the glass too. Then we tried boiling them, baking
them, and what finally got those suckers to melt was the microwave! We microwaved
them for about 2 minutes, then pulled out the bowl and squished them to
the sides with heavy duty oven mitts. The bottom melted more quickly so
we added more men and squished them into the melty ones. It took a few rounds
in the microwave to get them all melted. To get it out of the bowl, we popped
it into the freezer for a while. Parts of it came unstuck, then I pried
it out with a butter knife. It turned out pretty well for a first try. It
is about 6 inches wide, by 4 inches tall. Some of the plastic dudes work
better than others, like the thicker plastic. Thin brittle plastic stays
brittle and is very hard to get out of the bowl. |
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10/14/04 Collage
backdrop for stopmotion film - My friend Dana and I made an animation film
today at her house. It was great. We created two backdrops, one for the
background and one for the foreground. We used pictures from an old Life
magazine, then we moved objects around frame by frame. We used a super 8
camera and some kodachrome. The best part was making a paper doll type puppet
out of a lady selling fabric or something, and putting googly eyes on two
old guys selling instant coffee, then making it dirty. wink wink. |
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