On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:03, Alice Howell wrote:
If you want to put your mind to something strange,
tell me how I can make a fake dead turkey
.....everything except the feathers.
Sorry, no ideas there, unless you apply a bicycle pump to a chicken...
:)
Someone suggested paper mache but I thought that might
be heavy.
Not, if it's empty inside.
I also need two huge chalices...about 2 feet high.
I'm thinking about a gallon jug, bottom removed,
Our milk and juice jugs are square, and then there's the handle... Even
upside-down they'd look odd. The wine jugs are round, but they're
glass, so removing the bottom would be more difficult and the handle
problem remains.
Do you have sodas in 2-liter bottles in your part of the country? Maybe
they'd do? There are different chalice-shapes, and a tall, narrow, one
is one of them :) Give it an extra-long "stem" and use the removed
bottom -- same diameter as the "chalice", so no tipping over -- as the
base?
I think I'll go prowl through the local Good Will
store and the dollar store. Who knows what might turn
up!
The dollar store is always a good bet :) Look for plastic canisters;
the big ones, which are supposed to hold sugar or flour... Their lids
-- again, pretty much the same diameter as the canister -- would serve
as the base and all you'd need would be the connecting stem.
Join your local community theater. You never know
what you might be doing next. <G>
Tearing your grey hairs out, that's what :)
I spent a couple of years designing, assembling and making costumes
(and some props) for our community theatre (adults Sept-May, kids
June-August; 4 plays a year) and taking care of them (laundry and
repair) while the plays ran. The directors *looooved* my insightful
reading of the plays' texts and my imaginative interpretation. One of
them -- a visiting poobah -- even wanted me on his team permanently. On
the same "terms" -- volunteer work. I didn't even know how to drive
then (2 miles' walk in for fittings and 2 miles back -- I was in
excellent shape <g>) and his town -- which ran *8* plays a year -- is
35 miles away...
Never again :) I go and pack Christmas parcels for the needy, help out
at the Free Clinic (mostly stuffing envelopes for fundraising) or at
the Food Bank (ditto) and show up to shelve books at the local library
if they're really desperate. The community theatre can do without me.
And I can do without them, thanks very much :)
T, geting deeper and deeper into "ancestor laces" -- the amount of
insight I get from reproducing even the simplest of the Le Pompe
patterns is mind-blowing...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
