mushroom art

[tummymunkey.livejournal.com]

my friend taught me this strange thing in high school, and i think we did it in the fall, when the mushrooms were out in full force:

pick a bunch of mushrooms from outside. take off their stems and place them flat side down on a piece of paper in a nice arrangement. place a bowl or cup over them (preferably styrofoam?) for a couple days, and voila, the spores come out and make pretty art. it's cool to do it twice, so you have some images overlapping. and they'll come out in white and browns and be very pretty.

my only problem was that they were basically like super smudgy chalk and you couldn't touch em. that and i was scared of mushrooms like i am scared of sandollars.