This Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007, we're meeting at Pam A's ever-accommodating abode, to "Decorate a Box."
That's it. Decorate a Box. That's all I got. Nobody has stepped forward to lead us on this quest, or offer sage counsel, we once again find ourselves drifting aimlessly through a project, in parallel-play free-fall. Thank goodness we have a project "bye" next month, since it's the Winter Solstice Dinner (time and place as yet to be determined), and we're all pretty adept at stuffing food into our faces and exchanging inexpensive yet bizarre trinkets.
Let me extrapolate from what I know about decorating a box:
1) Bring a box. Metal boxes are good, already-decorated boxes offer a launching-off point, cardboard boxes (a la cigarette boxes) have their charm, plain shirt- or paper-boxes offer the most room for "improvement," etc.
2) Bring things to decorate a box with - enhance it, if you will. The usual gew-gaws & doo-dads. Paper, gemstones, trinkets, stamped metal bits, feathers, fur, cloth, stickers, rubber stamps or stamped imagery, watercolors, guache, gauchos, beads, coins, baby teeth, wisdom teeth, fingernail clippings, snake scales (A puzzle for our alert readers: which of that list DIDN'T BELONG?)
3) The tool-and-glue wherewithall to attach #2 to #1. Knives, scissors, glue, varnish, handguns, velveeta, etc.
4) Think "out of the box." Well, you can decorate its insides, too, but stretch your mind to its farthest imaginings to come up with an appropriate box decoration. Okay, maybe that was too far. Come back in a little. There you go. Have a cup of tea, you'll feel better.
See ya Tuesday!
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