Playing with Paverpol glue with our friend Susanne

Here is the Star Wars Sith Jake made.

And here's how he made it..

As well as the garden (Bonzai) wire to make the figure's skeleton...

You'll need an old sheet, silver foil, a 1 ltr tub of Paverpol.

The rest of the stuff was used on
my vultures, which will be on the blog next week

First Jake and Susanne made the body out of wire.

Then Jake padded it out with silver foil.

When that was done, he cut strips of old sheet up - about 2 inches wide
by six inches long (though I've lived with centimeters and the
24-hour clock long enough to mix up measurements and end up with a an unhappy medium).

Luckily Paverpol is not an exact science.

And then he dipped the strips of sheet in the Paverpol liquid glue,
scraped off the excess and
wound them around the wire frame.

In between layers, he used my hair drier to help speed up the process.
My hair drier will never be the same but it was all in a good cause.
And my hair does what it wants, regardless of hair driers, anyway.

It took two to put on the cape.

Sith still. 

Then come the ticklish bits. Jake built up very small layers
of sheet to make eyebrows and a nose.
The spikes are tiny twigs. They are called something cooler than 'spikes' but Jake has gone to bed, so I can't refer to a higher authority.

The light sabre is a longer twig.

And then he wound some sheeting round a wire fixed to a base that
Susanne had prepared in advance. Cool!

And the finishing touch was to add some silver paint. It took about 4.5 hours altogether and is an excellent present for Jake's big brother, Alex, who is also a true Star Wars fan.

NEXT WEEK
See how my vultures took shape :o). See what sensible people made.
And see when you can sign up for a parent and kiddy Paverpol fun day with Susanne in the autumn. (She hasn't quite finalised the dates yet).

Flea markets - pimp that mug

You will need:

A mug

Nail varnish

A fairly big old tub (from ice cream, perhaps)

NEWSPAPER

These mugs were only DKK 15 for four at our local flea market. 

Great. But being exactly the same, they were far too easy 

to muddle up. And there's nothing worse than getting a mouthful of someone ELSE's cold tea, complete with soggy biscuit dunking dregs. Yuck! 

Luckily I had some old nail varnish, and Louis was visiting. Yay!

We didn't have an old plastic tub so we used a plastic bag in a basket.
First we filled the bag with warm water - not right up to the top.
Then we dripped some drops (or dropped some drips) of two similar
colours of varnish into the water.
THIS WAS WHERE WE REMEMBERED THE NEWSPAPER
just in case.

Now hold onto the mug carefully at the top - by the handle works well -
and dip the mug down into the water.
The varnish sticks to the sides of the mug and makes pretty patterns.

They dripped more varnish into the bag before each new mug.
It LOOKS like Jake is dipping his fingers in the water
but that would be a dippy idea. 

And this as the prettiest mug we made.
Of course they have to be washed by hand but as there's
no dish washer at our old summer cottage, it doesn't matter!
Anyway, the boys earn pocket money for flea markets by helping wash up.
At least then their hands are clean :o)

HOPE YOURS WORKS!