sandbox serendipity

just answer the question - who used the %#@&$ gorilla glue??????

i come down for coffee this morning and the gorilla glue is on the counter, open.

who used the glue? i ask

not me, not me, not me

maybe you did it, sam says. nope, sorry....as strange as i can be, i have never been known to adhere in my sleep.  i don't even reach for random adhesives. i think before i adhere.

but no one will fess up to it

ok, so you are telling me a stranger came into the house, bypassed the alarm, opened the drawer, took out the glue, used it and ran off before capping it and putting it away.

i am not buying it

not only am i not buying it but i am relentlessly pursuing the culprit..... my theory is whatever they had to glue is something they were not supposed to be futzing with or something they don't want me to know they broke.

i will break them....

*eta*

mystery solved....samuel used it to try and fix his DS stylus....he came begging for forgiveness because he knew how angry i was that someone lied.  silly boy - adhesives are my game, i play to win

all dolled up

maria's latest latin project was to create dolls from scratch. she chose antony and cleopatra. she spent the whole day cutting fabric and fighting with the sewing machine (i told her, it is like a dog - it senses your fear/frustration and will use it against you. you have to show it who is boss).  here are the results....they have no faces because i warned her - if you put a face on them and don't like it, you will have wasted all that time creating the doll/costume.

rome wasn't built in a day....and neither were these

these are the columns i built for the latin club - they stand 5 feet tall and can be taken apart to move around.  made from concrete footings (big cardboard tubes) and insulation foamboard, it took me a looooong time to get all the logistics right and make them look real.the foam was cut with a miter saw (score, score, score, snap then sand) and adhered with a foam adhesive. then i had to cover the foam with a coating (like stucco) to harden it and to make it safe for the spraypaint. then i painted white over that. the tubes were painted with gesso to cover the lovely yellow/black outside.  then i hit both with some gray paint to break up the white and finally added some black webbing spray....a true labor of love