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pasithea ([personal profile] pasithea) wrote2002-12-18 10:43 am
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The Wreath of Con

Okay,

I guess this a multi-entandra... There's a new Star Trek movie out, though you wouldn't know. It's not running at any of the local theatres. I haven't seen any of the last two or three so I'm not that upset about it. Still. It's weird. I thought Paramont was a major motion picture company.

The next part? Well. Now that school is over, no rest for the wicked. I got roped into helping with FCTV for Further Confusion 2003 so I'm now making a bunch of little video shorts for furry convention. If anyone has any cute and simple ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'm doing all kinds of things. Animation, video, stop-motion, etc.

So that brings me to the wreath... We had a big wind storm a couple of days ago. Luckily I'd cut the dead snags out of my trees so they were okay, but the tree in the yard of the house behind us had not been trimmed so it lost some branches and brough down a really nice bow of tightly clustered fir needles. So I decided I'd make a wreath with it....

If I could have found my flower arrangement wire (and before you shun me, let me explain! I use it for claymation figures! Really!) this might have turned out well. I couldn't locate it though, so ultimately, I ended up using a bunch of green twist-ties that came with the garbage bags. It took about three hours to make something somewhat wreath-like that didn't completely sag and made a total mess out of my living room with dropped needles, and I have a bazillion little pokes and scratches on my hands now, but there is something somewhere between a circle and triangle hanging on my door, strung with christmas lights that at least somewhat resembles a holiday wreath.

Well. My partner liked it anyhow. She gets really blue around the holiday time and we're very low on money this year, so we hadn't done anything christmasy. Anyhow. It was an interesting experience. Not sure I'll try repeating it next year.

-Samantha

[identity profile] perlandria.livejournal.com 2002-12-18 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Wreath making can suck. Good job. For scavenged branches I like making a rope of them 2-3 time longer than I want the wreath round, saving out bits with interesting things like pine cones, and then twist the rope into itself for a circle. Then I tuck the interesting bits into the twisted circle.
Which reminds me, I haven't done that yet. Twist ties are a good idea. I got some of them. Thanks.

[identity profile] dv-girl.livejournal.com 2002-12-18 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I still have a lot of fir if you're interested. :)
Your plan sounds much better than mine. Maybe I'll try making another!

-Samantha

[identity profile] perlandria.livejournal.com 2002-12-18 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Jya I'd like more fir! If nothing else it means I, and hopefully paka, gets to SEE you (and maybe she who growls when compared to Legolas).

[identity profile] kibbles.livejournal.com 2002-12-18 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
In Girl Scouts they taught us to make a wearth by stretching a wire hanger into a circle, and then tying sandwich baggies to it. Close together.

Actually, it makes a really funky white-ish wreath.

(Not what you were looking for, I bet.)

[identity profile] dv-girl.livejournal.com 2002-12-19 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
WAAAAG!!!! I remember doing that! In fact, when I saw my wreath last night I was just thinking about it. My mom is a packrat! I bet she's still got the one I made. *laugh* Kinda funny, I'd see that kind of thing as extremely tacky now. Though I guess I see all of Christmas as being kind of tacky, so I could probably deal with it. Interesting to look back and see how one has changed. :)

-Samantha