Monday, May 29, 2017

Monday, May 29, 2017

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2005. Mattie was three years old. You will notice that he was standing on a green John Deere like tractor stool. Mattie was clearly becoming more independent and needed a stool in the bathroom. Instead of buying one, he and Peter constructed one together. Mattie got to decide on the shape! Mattie loved all sorts of vehicles!!! Anything with wheels. This stool is so sturdy, that I use it in my closet even today. When I see it, it takes me back to the day they made it together. In this photo, Mattie was standing on the stool to show his proud accomplishment. 




Quote of the day: Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~ C.E.M. Joad

Tonight's quote is a riot! I fully and freely report that the idea to make cupcake towers came from the Internet. I personally love how the crafter on line described this project as EASY! What a terrible, terrible joke! Peter and I are both skilled and together we were at this project ALL day. 

Why did we do this? For a friend. She is responsible for dessert displays next week at her son's school. She needs to display 100 cupcakes on a buffet table for the 2017 graduates. I can officially say that I neither enjoyed this project NOR would recommend anyone try to take this on. 

If I were to do it again, I probably would redesign it and use completely different materials than the ones recommended. 

So above you saw Peter and I working with foam core pieces. First these pieces had to be cut to the approach size in order for them to stack on top of each other in layers. That alone was a math challenge! Thank goodness for Peter who can deal with this kind of stuff easily and also sees in three dimensions. 

Because we had to take a flat form core (which is like a poster board), and turn it into a box. 

Once the boxes were formed, which meant that each of the pieces had to be glued to form a box, then each box was wrapped with white paper. Again, that may sound easy, but this is actually a box with only three sides, the underneath part is hollow. Which makes wrapping evenly next to impossible! 

After a FULL day on this project, here are the final displays. They include the school's logos, congratulations and class of 2017!

What you can't see is that two of the boxes are also wrapped in a lovely silver shimmering material, since the school's colors are grey/silver and burgundy. I'm thrilled this is behind us. So much for a relaxing weekend post-walk. It did not happen.