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Our next meeting will be Tuesday, 10 April (at a site TBD). 7ish, for a change.

We will be creating tin altars. Bring a decorated tin container, such as: a mints tin (Altoid/Velamint, etc.), a printed tin can, Band-Aids tin , a current license plate, a metal eyeglasses case, a metal 3x5 card box, an otherwise valuable antique tin toy, tons of thin twin tintypes, two terrified terrapins teetering toward ten ticklish tyrannosaurs, etc. Or, in lieu of tin, any container (such as, say, a cigarette box, small gift box, or a shoe box for very tiny shoes).

Then, bring small (tiny) fetish* objects with which to decorate your tin, and any wire and/or loops that could be handy to affix to the walls of the box.

Them what have tools for making holes in thin metal (Dr. Hoobie's Thin-Metal Hole-Maker, for example) should bring them. ... should bring the tools with them... you know what we mean.

Decorative gew-gaws and frou-frou are always useful, and consider bringing heat guns and/or glue sticks or glue-like substances. (Funny, you don't look gluish!) Rick-rack. Doo-dahs. Doo-dads. Doo-moms. Yo-moms. Betsey's example had teeny crepe-paper roses, which are probably fairly easy to make, but probably easier still to buy.

Things to ponder: What subject is worthy of your adoration and/or attention? A person? A politician? A cleric? Nuns in general? Generals in nuns? (eeuw!*) Childrens? Pets? The state of Massatwospits? Road Eyeland? Vermint? Do you want to create a salute to... flags? ... to Mother Nature? ... to Father Time? (or their progeny, Dust Bunnies and Old Dirt). Celebrate an old '60s Mustang, claw-footed bathtubs, three-toed sloths, tapirs, pangolins, pogo sticks, hula hoops (don't forget the "shoop" stuff), favorite body parts*, or a combination of the above: tapir body parts with hula hoops tooling down Vermint highways in a '60s Mustang with nuns on top.

The subject is the hard part: once you have that figured out, then collecting the decorative elements* will be a piece of pie... cake... cheesecake...  Hmm... a nod to desserts.

Richard - aka Present Dude

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* Keep in mind that we're all watching what you're doing, and will discuss it mercilessly (especially if/when you're not there), so keep that in mind when assembling your "fetish" objects. I mean, do you really want to be making an homage to, let's say, Pulp Fiction or Sister Rosa Restraints? No, I didn't think so.

P.S. A few sharp eyes (and tongues) have noticed that the winning entry in last week's Boston Globe Cartoon Caption Contest was mine truly (changes at the end of this week, look at bottom cartoon & captions -- see link at right). I get a free book! Huzzah!