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i made a pig. his name is capital. he's cute.
my pictures don't really go in order or anything, but they break up the BO-RING text.
i got this very very pretty handmade paper at some art store in georgetown,cd. when i found it i ran up to my friend with it in my hand and said "oooh look at this!". he looked at it and said "you've lost your mind!" my face fell, and he hastened to add, "but in a good way! no really!"
i hoarded the paper forever until i decided to do my room in shades of tirquoise. yay tirquoise!
i decided that what i need for this fabulous tirquoise room is a decorated piggybank.
so i tore the paper up into about 2-3" square pieces, and decoupaged the entire pig with it. obviously where the curves and corners turn sharply i used smaller pieces. i used mod podge and i now HATE the smell of mod podge.
then i took 1/16" double sided tape, and went around his nose and feet and ears and twirly little tail. peeled off the other side and stuck down WILD fuzzy gold stuff that i got real cheap at pat catans.
i got itty bitty rhinestones and e-6000'd them down for eyes and nose details. then i took double sided sticky stuff, cut circles out of it, and slapped them on him in kinda sorta randomness. i peeled the back off the double stick, and used tweezers and a lot of steady-handed nerve, and stuck down 1/2" square mirrors, big rhinestones, and little rhinestones in circular patterns on the sticky.
this was the really freaking hard part: i then took little gold tiny glass marbles/microbeads and tried to get them to stick to the exposed sticky. the problem is catching these as they roll off the curved surface of the pig as you try and press them into the crevices. what a pain. next time i will get a big pile of microbeads and just press the pig down into them, instead of trying to pour them onto the pig over my little tray-with-a-funnel.
oh, and i put sticky on the top along the slit, and inside his ears too. if i could go back in time i would have used the gold beadies on his eyes too, just to make them stand out a little more.
so here's where i want advice: i've been making this guy for like a year, or at least a bunch of months now, and somewhere along the way i lost his buttplug.
aside from going back to michaels and stealing another pig's plug (i would NEVER!), what could i do to plug him up? do they make corks that wide? should i do something more permenant so that i'm not stealing from my nest egg all the time? i would do duct tape or something (don't want sticky money either) but i wanted something that coordinated more with the colors, or at least the shiny white. i do have some of that paper left too, if a solution involving that could be found.
well folks, what do you think?
i made a pig. his name is capital. he's cute.
my pictures don't really go in order or anything, but they break up the BO-RING text.
i got this very very pretty handmade paper at some art store in georgetown,cd. when i found it i ran up to my friend with it in my hand and said "oooh look at this!". he looked at it and said "you've lost your mind!" my face fell, and he hastened to add, "but in a good way! no really!"
i hoarded the paper forever until i decided to do my room in shades of tirquoise. yay tirquoise!
i decided that what i need for this fabulous tirquoise room is a decorated piggybank.
so i tore the paper up into about 2-3" square pieces, and decoupaged the entire pig with it. obviously where the curves and corners turn sharply i used smaller pieces. i used mod podge and i now HATE the smell of mod podge.
then i took 1/16" double sided tape, and went around his nose and feet and ears and twirly little tail. peeled off the other side and stuck down WILD fuzzy gold stuff that i got real cheap at pat catans.
i got itty bitty rhinestones and e-6000'd them down for eyes and nose details. then i took double sided sticky stuff, cut circles out of it, and slapped them on him in kinda sorta randomness. i peeled the back off the double stick, and used tweezers and a lot of steady-handed nerve, and stuck down 1/2" square mirrors, big rhinestones, and little rhinestones in circular patterns on the sticky.
this was the really freaking hard part: i then took little gold tiny glass marbles/microbeads and tried to get them to stick to the exposed sticky. the problem is catching these as they roll off the curved surface of the pig as you try and press them into the crevices. what a pain. next time i will get a big pile of microbeads and just press the pig down into them, instead of trying to pour them onto the pig over my little tray-with-a-funnel.
oh, and i put sticky on the top along the slit, and inside his ears too. if i could go back in time i would have used the gold beadies on his eyes too, just to make them stand out a little more.
so here's where i want advice: i've been making this guy for like a year, or at least a bunch of months now, and somewhere along the way i lost his buttplug.
aside from going back to michaels and stealing another pig's plug (i would NEVER!), what could i do to plug him up? do they make corks that wide? should i do something more permenant so that i'm not stealing from my nest egg all the time? i would do duct tape or something (don't want sticky money either) but i wanted something that coordinated more with the colors, or at least the shiny white. i do have some of that paper left too, if a solution involving that could be found.
well folks, what do you think?
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