Day 5: Sutton

January 11, 2021

Day 5: Sutton

Today was very exciting. I began by cutting foam core with my handy dandy knife (which I always remembered to put the cap on when I wasn't using). Once I had a boatload of foam core strips as skinny as the boys cross country team, I began to assemble my safari shadow box. I had to line the strips of foam core around the border of each layer and then stack them exactly right. Mr. Grisbee had told us to be extremely careful and to make sure everything was parallel, perpendicular, and another p-word...perfect.

The pressure was on.

I tried as hard as I could to line everything up to the best of my ability. At one point, Josey was like "Omg Sutton!" and I totally thought she was talking about how perfect my layers were looking. Turns out, I had forgotten to screw the lid on the glue bottle after I used it, so when she turned it over, it exploded all over the place (the floor, the table, her sweater). I put on my best "I'm so sorry" behavior because you don't want to face Josey when she is mad. Thankfully, she was fine and so was the shadowbox she was working on. We cleaned up the mess and finished our boxes. Mr. Grisbee said my sides were pretty straight but there is one little dent that we are going to need to cover with a frame which he said was "totally fine." Yay!

I laid my LED under the shadowbox in the dark tinkeria closet so I could visualize what it would look like when it is ultimately all dolled up. It looked so cool! The sun has this halo effect and the box looks especially good with green, yellow, pink, and strobe rainbow lights (with this its like a safari party).

In the afternoon, I printed my underwater diorama. I was a tad nervous to print the layers that were on the sparkly paper because I didn't have back up paper in case one got messed up. Thankfully, there were no mistakes! It looked SO good! It is amazing how my not-so-good sketch ended up transforming into something that looked this awesome. I know exactly where I am going to put it in my room and am very excited to take it home and show it off. Andy might be able to swing a golf bat but can he print this awesome underwater diorama? I don' t think so. Shoot, not golf bat - golf club. This is why I am not in the Golf J-Term.

Mr. Grisbee looked at my diorama and recommended that I make the mermaid tail its own separate layer rather than simply gluing it onto the last layer. This way, it would look like the tail was floating/swimming. I really liked that idea so I reprinted the tail and did so in three different sparkly colors (gold, silver, coral). Please comment what you like best! I'm having a really hard time deciding.

Tomorrow I will repeat the foam core process with my diorama and start doing some woodworking! Bye!