Easter crafts
Mar. 24th, 2025 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI started the day with putting red icing on my carrot-shaped biscuits (that contain actual carrots). I wanted orange icing, closer to the natural colour, but mixing red and yellow food colouring resulted in a sickly pink hue, so I added drastically more red and now I have red carrots. I'll ice the leaves green tomorrow. The poor things should at least look nice, considering that they have the consistency of rubber. I've seriously messed up the measurements, apparently - and that after I'd made those biscuits several times with no problems, even with twenty-some children involved! Ah, well, I'll tell the recipients to consider it chewing gum - their little ones will have fun with them. As long as they don't try to blow bubbles...
In the early afternoon I went back to school, where Erna, our arts teacher had her weekly workshop with the kids. I painted all 24 styrofoam eggs and the six existing little baskets - with various degrees of success. Styrofoam sucks. It refuses to allow the paint to stick properly, resulting in striped and spotted eggs. I'll never use styrofoam again! And I'll tell everyone that the somewhat marbled results were intentional. Marbled eggs are very fashionable. That's my story and I'll stick to it.
To add insult to injury, I had to discover the hard way that metallic paint isn't suited for cardboard or for styrofoam. And I had bought two 200ml bottles of it last week, thinking that it will look good. Grrr! I'll try them on lolly sticks, perhaps they work better on wood. If not, I'll throw them into the rubbish bin. The fact that I got them 30% cheaper at Kik doesn't really lessen the pain of having thrown out precious money for them.
Well, that was my day, basically. At least I met quite a few of my former colleagues at school, as I was there by 2pm. I usually don't met them before choir practice, which takes place at 17.30.
In the early afternoon I went back to school, where Erna, our arts teacher had her weekly workshop with the kids. I painted all 24 styrofoam eggs and the six existing little baskets - with various degrees of success. Styrofoam sucks. It refuses to allow the paint to stick properly, resulting in striped and spotted eggs. I'll never use styrofoam again! And I'll tell everyone that the somewhat marbled results were intentional. Marbled eggs are very fashionable. That's my story and I'll stick to it.
To add insult to injury, I had to discover the hard way that metallic paint isn't suited for cardboard or for styrofoam. And I had bought two 200ml bottles of it last week, thinking that it will look good. Grrr! I'll try them on lolly sticks, perhaps they work better on wood. If not, I'll throw them into the rubbish bin. The fact that I got them 30% cheaper at Kik doesn't really lessen the pain of having thrown out precious money for them.
Well, that was my day, basically. At least I met quite a few of my former colleagues at school, as I was there by 2pm. I usually don't met them before choir practice, which takes place at 17.30.
