2107 - 17 - Open to Interpretation.
Day 17
Finish this statement any way you want: One thing I know to be true...
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...is that Litchfield Community Youth Theatre's production of
Lion King Jr. opens on Thursday. For this reason, my project today was to make 45 more dandelions to go with the 10 I made a few weeks ago. I need 55 all together so that each actor and crew member gets one. While this tends to be a large under taking, I like ensuring that each child receives at least one flower during the show. I started about 5 years ago and I try to make the flower relate to the show; for
The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley Jr. I made "flat" flowers, which were painted on a bookmark; for
My Son Pinocchio Jr. I made "wooden" roses from cardboard.
The process of making the dandelions is to sew string on to a straw; wrap the string around the straw and a fork, tying it off and snipping the loops to create a pom-pom; dye the flower; let it dry completely; rinse out the excess dye; let the flower dry completely again; finally fluf the flower and wrap the straw with floral tape. It is a time consuming process, but they look really neat when they are finished. Unfortunately due to time constraints, I wasn't able to actually complete all of the flowers today. I did get them made, dyed, and rinsed, so all I have to do is wrap the stems after they are dry.
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