One of the smaller details…all the pieces for the birthday banner were cut out the other night. Using multiple Cricut cartridges and Design Studio, I designed all the pieces to make a banner to span the the clubhouse entrance. When it is all put together it will say: Welcome to Amelia’s Grotto. I still need to tie ribbons and put it all together, but here are the pieces.
Once it was determined that the princess party…which morphed into a Little Mermaid party…which then morphed into an “Under the Sea” party, I stalking internet sites for ideas. And I knew when I saw this, that we had to have it:
Then I saw the price!!!Holy Moly…this is one expensive piece of cardboard! Some sites had it for as much as $50…and even though I found it for as low as $29.99, I still was not going to pay for it!
So, a dishwasher box morphed into my version of the octopus stand-in late last night. I finished it today [how’s that for a 4th of July project!]. The final touch won’t be added until the morning of the party [the brown part at the bottom will be “hidden” with ocean bottom [crumpled tissue paper & hot glue].
Here are a few photos:
Just getting started.
After adding the rest of the sea creatures.
It almost seemed like finding the liquid starch was going to be impossible…but I finally came home and called the parent company to ask them if they could tell me a specific location in my area that had it…and off we went. It took 2 more stops, but we finally found it!
After coming back home, I started to mold the mermaid from balloons and newspaper. Amelia helped by handing me pieces of masking tape.
Here are a few of the beginning stages of the molding process:
Now for the Sta-Flo liquid starch…I could have used flour and water [which would have been much cheaper] but the humidity in S. Florida is way too high to get a really nice hard covering!
And one last shot after working on part of the lower body! It will take days [and many many layers] before this mermaid will be finished and ready to make beautiful!
