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azurelunatic) wrote2012-05-31 03:55 am
azurelunatic) wrote2012-05-31 03:55 am
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Party Hat
So it was decided that my team's Fun Outing this summer will involve the beach. On my way home this evening, I stopped in at the dollar store to update my complement of beach gear. I saw braided-paper hats, and realized that I probably did need a hat. At some point -- I think it was in the craft area, with plain bags and things that could be used to decorate them -- I realized that a plain hat could in fact be decorated.
I have very little explanation for what happened next, but I found myself with a number of entertaining things in a sack, and a vague plan to make the loudest, tackiest, most fabulous beach hat ever, to entertain and baffle my co-workers.
Foam visors plus glitter glue is actually a lot of fun. I drew something approximating the Dreamwidth 'd' on a celerity-green visor, and then found out the hard way that my orange glitter in the multi-glitter shaker is all contaminated with blue. Pro tip: as awesome as you'd think it would be to have like six colors of glitter in one convenient shaker, this is not actually useful for keeping the colors apart. I drew other little fun shapes on a blue visor. Yay!
As I was contemplating my glittery items, there was a knock on my door. It was my aunt, with cherries, and an urgent need to see my bathroom. My apartment is currently sort of a pit; it's been getting better, but it's a slow process that gets interrupted by things like work and how a fucked-up shoulder can knock me out of anything useful or productive for a week. Augh.
I showed her the stuff for the Hat to End All Hats, and then after she left, of course I had to start, never mind that the event isn't for, like, weeks.
I cannot exactly explain what happened then either. First I was just holding up artificial flower bits and noodling around with pom-poms and pipecleaners, and then -- well. I tweeted, somewhere in there, that if I were Sophie Hatter, I'd be whispering "fabulous trainwreck" to this hat. I snapped pictures of the process. I pressed the not particularly sticky butt-end of a makeup brush into service as a hold-hot-gluey-thing-in-place tool because using my fingers would have been a bad plan. I cackled to myself with glee.
When I emerged from the creative fugue sometime after midnight, I had relocated my bedside table to use as a work table, part of my desk looked like Peter Parker had borrowed my computer, my fingertips were covered with bits of congealed hot glue, and there was a small blister forming on my right thumb, there were bits of green-plastic-covered wire and other little leavings lying around here and there, and there was an entirely improbable hat on my couch.
(ridiculously floral hat with rainbow bits and bobs)
(same hat from the rear)
This monstrosity started the evening as:
A straw-colored braided paper hat
A bright green and silver elastic headband
A virulent pink and spangled toddler-sized ballet-style skirt
Four bunches of artificial flowers
A molded-plastic-bead hibiscus(?) necklace
Three curled-ribbon bows
Rainbow pipecleaners
Pony beads
Rainbow pom-poms
a toilet paper tube (concealed, structural)
a fortune cookie fortune (likewise concealed, not quite so structural)
three blue butterfly ornaments
some fallen bling from my work lanyard
and a *fuckton* of hot glue for my adorable tiny hot-melt hot glue gun.
It looks like an Easter parade collided with a Pride parade.
It's not very beachy, actually. Now I need to make an actual *beach* hat, and figure out where I'm going to wear this one.
I have very little explanation for what happened next, but I found myself with a number of entertaining things in a sack, and a vague plan to make the loudest, tackiest, most fabulous beach hat ever, to entertain and baffle my co-workers.
Foam visors plus glitter glue is actually a lot of fun. I drew something approximating the Dreamwidth 'd' on a celerity-green visor, and then found out the hard way that my orange glitter in the multi-glitter shaker is all contaminated with blue. Pro tip: as awesome as you'd think it would be to have like six colors of glitter in one convenient shaker, this is not actually useful for keeping the colors apart. I drew other little fun shapes on a blue visor. Yay!
As I was contemplating my glittery items, there was a knock on my door. It was my aunt, with cherries, and an urgent need to see my bathroom. My apartment is currently sort of a pit; it's been getting better, but it's a slow process that gets interrupted by things like work and how a fucked-up shoulder can knock me out of anything useful or productive for a week. Augh.
I showed her the stuff for the Hat to End All Hats, and then after she left, of course I had to start, never mind that the event isn't for, like, weeks.
I cannot exactly explain what happened then either. First I was just holding up artificial flower bits and noodling around with pom-poms and pipecleaners, and then -- well. I tweeted, somewhere in there, that if I were Sophie Hatter, I'd be whispering "fabulous trainwreck" to this hat. I snapped pictures of the process. I pressed the not particularly sticky butt-end of a makeup brush into service as a hold-hot-gluey-thing-in-place tool because using my fingers would have been a bad plan. I cackled to myself with glee.
When I emerged from the creative fugue sometime after midnight, I had relocated my bedside table to use as a work table, part of my desk looked like Peter Parker had borrowed my computer, my fingertips were covered with bits of congealed hot glue, and there was a small blister forming on my right thumb, there were bits of green-plastic-covered wire and other little leavings lying around here and there, and there was an entirely improbable hat on my couch.
(ridiculously floral hat with rainbow bits and bobs)
(same hat from the rear)
This monstrosity started the evening as:
A straw-colored braided paper hat
A bright green and silver elastic headband
A virulent pink and spangled toddler-sized ballet-style skirt
Four bunches of artificial flowers
A molded-plastic-bead hibiscus(?) necklace
Three curled-ribbon bows
Rainbow pipecleaners
Pony beads
Rainbow pom-poms
a toilet paper tube (concealed, structural)
a fortune cookie fortune (likewise concealed, not quite so structural)
three blue butterfly ornaments
some fallen bling from my work lanyard
and a *fuckton* of hot glue for my adorable tiny hot-melt hot glue gun.
It looks like an Easter parade collided with a Pride parade.
It's not very beachy, actually. Now I need to make an actual *beach* hat, and figure out where I'm going to wear this one.
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