Well it's just a few weeks now and the Smiths will hit the road for New Orleans! This year, the Mowrers are coming too and I'm so excited I think I just peed my pants a little. I. Can't. Wait! We are going to go all out on a costume too! (And by "we" I mean me and Jenny. Matt and Tommy are sticks in the mud POOO. So far we have two, count 'em, TWO costumes and they involve wigs and tutus. I SHALL SAY NO MORE. But, it did give us a good excuse to go wig shopping! Whee!
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| matt titled this one "golden girls" |
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| and here we have me workin' 9 to 5 |
I collected some Mardi Gras beads last year with fervent promises to learn how to melt them down into fun things like ornaments and suncatchers. I made good on this promise last weekend! It was surprisingly easy and a lot less smelly than I anticipated! I mean, who wants to get burned by molten plastic? More importantly, who wants to confess to an ER doctor how those third degree burns were made? (My cover was going to be cooking meth, by the by. Shake and bake method. See? I had my story down pat!)
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| you start by taking wire and making it into a shape. you fill with mardi gras beads and stick in the oven at 350... |
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| easy as pie! my sun suncatcher! |
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| here we have it catching some rays... |
It was so cute and easy to do, that I got greedy. I tried to make a bread bowl out of Mardi Gras beads but failed to take one fairly simple rule of physics into account: gravity. Although the beads on the bottom of the bowl melted into a lump, the ones on the sides didn't fuse and it all fell apart.
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| my smelly molten creation |
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| you can see how pretty it should have been |
So I turned it back upside down and wore it as a hat!
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| stupid gravity |
And now Mardi Gras is three weeks away! I don't know how I can liiiiiiive until then. I shall try.
Over and out,
M
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