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  • Legendary

    ByHeather Bailey

    Pinata

    What a party!  We must have had forty people there — mostly little kids, including a ninja, a pirate, a wizard, a knight, and several princesses.

    Pinata_Kill_Shot Isaac's pinata was a hit.  He spent two hours the night before making a "legendary" dragon out of a common dinosaur.  With an impromptu blindfold made out of tinfoil, we had to keep the turns quick as it was a warm, sunny day.  (January!?)

    Isaac let each kid decide if he was to fight a fierce dragon or a friendly one. Choose fierce and the dragon roars and moans as he swings around.  Choose friendly and he says things like, "Why are you hitting me?  I thought we were friends.  Ouch.  That wasn't very nice."  This kept all of the kids in giggles, and happy to wait in that long ol' batting line.

    Dragon Tag was a soup of at least twenty kids running in an arena, pulling tails.  It's a miracle we didn't have any major crashes.  We handed out 24 tails to the "dragons" and all remaining kids became the "knights."  The knights chased the dragons, and as each dragon's tail was pulled, he joined the knights on their hunt.  The last dragon standing was the winner.  It was hilarious.  I believe we wore them all out. 

    We definitely wore ourselves out.  Happy 6th Birthday, Charlotte!

    DragonTag

  • Fierce Determination

    ByHeather Bailey

    DragonInProgress72dpi

    DragonISubStructure72dpi A work in progress.  Here's where I'm at on Charlotte's dragon headress for Halloween — a 3D sketch. So far I've built, in effect, a dragon dressform from a foam alligator hat, a pumpkin head and a metal jug.  Now to create a pattern and sew, sew, sew.

    Fun to see the process, huh?  Let's hope the finished result measures up.  Of course, now that I've let you in on it, there's no backing down.

    Little time, big ambition. I'm heading off for Houston in less than two days and there's no shortage of other work I have to squeeze in as well.  Aaah!