The unmolding of the paper bowl!
This is for the Salvager Challenge: Make Art Out of Recycled Materials.
The bottom of the bowl - cute little bottom, no?
It'll be perfect once unmolded!
I can visualize it holding keys by the front door!
And there's the bowl that's being used as the mold.
Should be easy enough to pry out.
Okay, not super easy.
But this sharp knife should do the trick.
We don't want to ruin the bowl though!
It took so long to make!
@!&$* this isn't as easy as I thought!
We've tried a sharp knife, we've tried a mallet. Nothing!
Why won't this thing come off?
It's been 30 minutes and it's a no-go.
Okay, we'll try these dinner knives!
Maybe if we stick them in, we can gently loosen it.
It looks like we're summoning a demon here.
An hour later...
Plan B (no, we've gone way past Plan B).
Cut it off - we'll make a smaller bowl, but it'll be okay.
Right? It'll be okay?
This is h#ll.
Pretty sure Dante wrote about this in "The Inferno."
Pretty sure Dante wrote about this in "The Inferno."
This is a disaster. A total disaster.
This frigging thing didn't even want to come off the bowl!
There was no hope in saving it.
There was no hope in saving it.
I just want it off at this point!
FML. Just FML.
We should have used Vaseline or cooking spray or something.
Why isn't there a "DIY FAIL" challenge? We'd totally win.
Let's move onto the next project, shall we?
As you may recall, we made firestarters the other day using wax (melted candles), dryer lint, pencil shavings, and matches stuffed into egg cartons. This is for the "Yeti" challenge.
The firestarters looked like this.
Cute, huh?
Well since the bottom of our grill rusted (more FML), we turned the top of the grill over and used that along with sticks. Sophisticated.
Here goes nothing!
Woohoo! It's working! It's really working!
Nice, daddy and mommy, but I'd rather be playing with Doggy in the dark
so I can trip, get hurt, and cry. Is that cool with you?
Thumbs-up! We did it!
Liam looks like he's in a trance.
Fires will do that to you.
Goofy kid! Just don't fall into the fire!
Look at that fire go!
Camping trips will never be the same!
We always struggle making campfires,
but pop a couple of these in your pack and you're good!
Can I play with Doggy already?
She looks like she's getting in trouble without me!
Creepy picture! This should be the cover of my next horror book!
Another creepy picture.
Why are kids so creepy?
So we did it! The firestarter worked! And the paper bowl.... didn't. We're soaking the pieces of the paper bowl in water to soften them so we can use them next time. That's the beauty of making paper pulp art: you can recycle your recycled paper! Next time we are DEFINITELY USING VASELINE. If we don't make another bowl, we'll do eggs. I have an idea for that involving plastic eggs.
Until next time,
Mary
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