Betsey offers further advice

Just a few additions to the list of things to bring:
Tin snips, if you got 'em and scissors
Super glue, if you are working with metal
PVA if you are working with a paper box or cigarette pack

I will bring jewels, tissue for edges (crumpled along the inside edges if needed), paper flowers and embroidery thread.

Basically, to put into english what Richard so kindly is trying to say, just bring a box, something to cover the back parts of the insides of the box and anything you might want to dangle from or add on to the outside of said box and the above list.

Richard responds: English is sooooo 20th-century.

SANE Meetin' 10 April

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Back to the present:

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!

SANE Meeting Tuesday 6 March

We're holding our February meeting in March this year:

Next Meeting: 6 March 2007 (aka 34 February 2007) - 7pm, at Pam A's

The task at hand will be Paper Pop-Ups, and Pam P.  has encouraged us to take a look at Robert Sabuda's web site to see some good examples:

http://www.robertsabuda.com/

It might suffice to find one of his designs and print it out and brang it along, with some card-stock weight paper, and we can all work in parallel. Or if someone else has a mo bettah idea, lemme/lemmus know. Paper, things which pop up, things to decorate with, various cutting and pasting tools, et cet., would be useful. Bring envelopes so you know what size your folded invention needs to be in order to fit in its envelope, or otherwise you'll have to make an envelope, too!

Tuesday threatens to be in the single digits for the day, so, of course, bring extra digits.

Keep your eyes peeled (owtch!) on Saturday evening for a full lunar eclipse, the last one since the night the Red Sox won the World Series and the moon turned blood red...

That is all for now, take care and we'll see each other (and no doubt, hear and rub elbones with each other, too) on Tuesday, 34 Feb.

Bark like a paper dog

August Mesmer here, with a warning to all who might have been affected by my brain-penetrating rays. Pam P writes:

Hey, Richard, I thought you intimidated me into doing research into pop-ups, because I have! Wow, your intimidation powers are far-reaching! I do have several books on the subject and am trying to find some websites to pass around. For now you could direct people to

 http://www.robertsabuda.com/

Robert Sabuda's the hottest thing in paper engineering these days - does the annual Christmas book and has done Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.

I can also bring selections from my collection of pop-up books, if I can find them.

On Sabuda's site, there are a lot of practical examples: click on "Explore Pop-ups," then "Simple Pop-ups you can make."

Look into my e-mail/blog: you are very sleepy... When I say the "KFC" you will cluck like a headless chicken... on the count of three, you will awake, alert and refreshed, and will not remember the beginning of this paragraph. One, two, three - Awaken!

Augie