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Mandy and Red Finger Nail Polish "Blood"
Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig
Ever since we started the Altered Books four day ago, the girls have done almost nothing else. They are enthralled with the creative aspect, and spend hours upon hours creating pages, scouring magazines for quotes and pictures, using paint, glitter, colored pencils stickers.....and red fingernail polish.
Mandy is working on two altered books...one is lovely and ethereal, with beautiful fairy images...the other is a compilation of all the notes and photos she has collected over the past year about serial killers. She is devoting a chapter on each serial killer she has studied.
Around the Jeffery Dahmer page, she decided to drip red fingernail polish for blood. At first they looked very fake and arranged, because...they were.
She decided she needed a spatter pattern (like she learned about on Forensic Files). I asked her to do it outside, to protect my antique dining table they are using to work on. I meant in the grass. I guess I should have specified, except thinking that a sixteen year old would know not to do it on the front porch, on Rose's old rocker.
Sigh.
It looked as though a small animal had been sacrificed on my rocker...and on the porch. She said defensively that we were going to paint the porch anyway. I didn't want to look at "blood stains" all that long, though. She tried to remove it off the rocker, removing finish and most of the nail polish and leaving red smears.
This reminds me of the time when she was about eight and decided to have her Barbie give birth. Again, she found red fingernail polish (nothing can be hidden from those kids...that's one reason why we have no gun, among others). Barbie gave birth on her new blue carpet...that was about six weeks old.
I laugh about it now.
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You are going to hear a lot of creative child work! Mine spray painted an art project on the front porch after being told not to, and I do not ever intend to paint the porch. Sigh. She also once set her bed on fire. She took blue nail polish into my off white new car and promised never to open the bottle. I never got it out of my Ann Klein purse, either. xoxo
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OH my........LOL There are only two tools you need these days: duct tape and WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. When my oldest was three, we had a lovely ice green living room - I painted it myself, then sponged it with the barest tinge of icy white. My three year old got a permanent magic marker one day and decided to be creative on Mommy's walls. Dark blue. Permanent ink. It took a coat of primer and two coats of paint to cover over. I laugh now, but I was really upset when she did it. Tearful the whole time I was repainting - lol.
Thank you for your comments, and have I mentioned I love the colors in your journal - they are subdued and elegant, but generally funky :) I don't usually pay much attention to dark or light background, as long as the contrast is such that I can read it easily. If I cannot, I skip over it to another journal. I'm glad you like the graphics for BC awareness. -
Ya I used to do stupid things like that too, but mine was usually with fire and my carpet in my bedroom...my little pyro self...lol
9/26/04 3:19 AM