SANE Meeting MONDAY 25 April 2011

Everybody had a good time with the cardboard and the duck/duct tapes of many colors, and nearly all came away from the event with a nearly functional pair of shoes, or a teeny wallet, or two large ducky surfboards. And an extra bonus - all duckty products are guaranteed to stay wart-free!

Next month's meeting will also be at Pam A's, at a special day and date (same old time): Monday, 25 April 2011 (7ish). Thanks to Mary's "wireless" efforts (see photo), the next project will involve wire, metal gew-gaws, beads, etc., and we will create all manner of wire creatures.

Mary got little Turmy (above, with photoshopped hand/claw since his real ones fell off in the photo) for, I'm gonna say Christmas, and fell in love with him, and didn't want him to be lonely and/or bored, so we should make him friends and companions. She found inspiration in a set of photos e-mailed to all (but not included here due to copyright infringement issues), and thought they might inspire all of us, too. So there. So be thinking of wire, don't throw away any small objects with holes already in them, or who are just begging for a hole, and bring 'em along on 4/25. We should bring cameras and make tableaus (French for "table water").

SANE Location

Okay, all the puzzles of the piece are together. The Where for tomorrow's meeting is:
[drum roll, or spring roll]

Pamela A's place, like nearly always!

It won't be hard to find, unless there is another blizzard like this afternoon. I mean, it will still be in the same place, it just might be harder to see through all the cruft.

So SANE Meeting, Tues, 22 March 2011, 7ish, at Pam A's

Be there and go duck yourself!

Scrooge McDuckTape

SANE Details

The where of the meeting is still in flux, but the what of the meeting is duck/ductape slippers.

Duckmaster Betsey sends the following cryptic comments:

To bring:
Scissors
embellishments
A tracing of both feet (onto card stock then cut out. you can also add thin foam cut out to your foot shape if you want cushy slippers)
A sock stuff with something to imitate foot shape so that you can
build height of slipper with the duct tape
If you have interesting duct tape.
Otherwise I will bring some.

Google duct tape slippers to see the various methods.
Duckily,
Betsey

For those who may not be able to folllow the above, I'll translate:

Bring Sharp Objects, especially those encrusted with jewels. Or extra toes or buckles.
Bring your feet, or some cardboard cut the same shape as their bottoms. One at a time. If your feet are the same size, just make one and turn it over when required. Unless this will be the sole of the shoes, in which case two would be better in order to, like, walk.
To walk on clouds (if you don't want to stand on your hands and stretch way up), cut pieces of foam (or carpet, or Dr. Scholl's Gels, or lambs' wool, or pillows, or actual clouds) the same shape as your foot bottoms, or slightly smaller.
Make turkey stuffing and fill a sock with same, and mold it into the shape of your foot. No onions, that would be stinky. [If you had old shoes, you could mold them inside your shoes, then cut away the shoe part to remove the stuffed sock without distorting its shape - I added that part].
If the duck/duct tape you have in your closet, basement, wine cellar, duck pond or jewelry drawers is of sufficiently high quality (argyle, bejeweled, silken, yak-hair covered, etc.), bring it along to tantalize us and make us jealous.
Betsey will bring normal run-of-the-mill ducks and tapes.
Somebody called Google Duck made a tape of slippers, in an effort to visualize different types of same. If only we could find Google Duck and get his tape, we could get a better idea of what we're doing. Oh well.
Ductily,
Rebetsey of DuckyBrook Farm

SANE Tuesday

Plans are firming up for Tomorrow's meeting, where we will assemble
shoes (et. al.) out of duck (or duct) tape, Cher willing. More as owls arrive.
Feel free to wear one-way shoes to the meeting, as you'll no doubt have footwear for the trek home. I mean that. Sad to say, I really mean that.

More info coming. Hold that date. Now hold it over there.