Yesterday was another whirlwind of activity and I think that it's all starting to catch up with me. During the day I took care of some business stuff and then I made it over to Kinko's to finally get everything printed out. They look so great! I'm going to take pictures tonight when Bruno comes home with the camera. While at Kinko's, the guy who was helping me completely forgot about my order and then proceeded to help a billion people before Bruno finally lost it. It was quite an interesting exchange of words that resulted in my order being completely free! Bruno wasn't rude, but made his point quite well known: We had been there for an hour. An HOUR! Just to have 10 color copies printed from a cd. When the guy gave me my stuff and told me that it was free, I was stunned. I wished him a merry christmas and all the people in line behind me groaned. Man, people really need to work on the whole x-mas spirit thing! What's wrong with wishing someone a happy holiday? Jesus people...
We also made what was supposed to be a quick trip to Michael's for last minute supplies. We were there over an hour. Bruno's last day of the semester is tomorrow and he had a project due for his sculpture class today. It wasn't done and he didn't have a clue how he was going to finish it. Enter Michael's. For weeks now, he's been casting light bulbs in cement but up until last night he had no idea how to display them. When I couldn't sleep the other night I thought up a bunch of ideas for him that I figured he would veto, but I wanted to help none-the-less. Well, he actually liked one of them: Attach the cement light bulbs to baby dolls (in place of their heads). So we ended up buying three dolls. He wanted to wrap the dolls like mummies using paper from books but there was no way that he could do it all in time so I helped. We each did one doll. He covered his doll with pages from a book on being a good housewife from the 50's and I covered mine with pages from a book on pregnancy (a pregnancy journal that someone wrote). Can you believe that we just happen to have these books lying around??
So, what started off as a small gesture to help out Bruno turned into an all nighter. We didn't go to bed until 5:30am and Bruno had to leave for school at 8am. It was so much fun though, and strangely therapeutic. When he brings them home we are going to mount the "fertility doll" (that's what I'm calling mine) next to my side of our bed and the "good housewife doll" in the kitchen. Maybe they will rub off on me or something. I told Bruno that it was ironic that we were making these because I'm neither a good housewife or fertile. Ha! This project really hit home with a lot of issues that I have.
Apparently his teacher liked them a lot. It's funny because this isn't the type of artwork that Bruno likes. It's too "poppy" and rings of shock art- everything that he hates about the art world. But, his teacher just eats that crap up, so I came up with the most outrageous idea I could think and it worked.
Since we had all of these doll heads lying on our table I decided to make a gift for one of Bruno's friends. I took some glitter glue and painted it on to the man's head (we had 2 females and 1 man) so that he looks like a glam rock star. Then I put tacks in his ears and a nail through his nose. I stuck a light socket in the base of his head and then glued the shoes that came with the doll to the base of the light socket. It wouldn't stand on it's own so then I glued it to a bunch of shiny stones. To cap off the gift, I hot glued nails all around his light bulb socket neck. Fancy! I'll post a picture of tonight.
Well, I have to do laundry if we hope to have any clean clothes for our trip. I also have to finish one last work assignment and then make the lip balm and body balm. And finish sewing the cloth book. Good times lie ahead! Or a total breakdown. Decisions decisions...
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