"There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence." Gandhi
Boston, 4.14.13
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Remember two weeks ago I said I was slightly addicted to my can of Gold Spray Paint? The awesome one that makes everything it touches look like it belongs on Mr. T's neck? Well, I was online looking for bookends to corral my unruly books when I fell in lust with some amazing brassy gold animal bookends that cost exactly one bajillion dollars. Since my rainy day fund jar had, at last count, 56 pennies in it, I was a few jillion dollars short. Gold Spray Paint to the rescue.
It was kind of hard to find the appropriate plastic animals, which surprised me. I tried to find some online but apparently, plastic animals are only sold in increments of one million. And I only needed two. So I went to my local zoo's gift shop and found these guys:
No, that isn't a Sophie the Giraffe. Those of you with young kids know who I mean. I have taken things from children in the past (lollipops, cheerios, uh Tickle Me Elmo so I could chuck it across the room) but never a Sophie!
A quick blast of gold spray paint, and voila! Do you like how I tried to recreate their natural habitat? A tipppity tip: Do not overspray. I did and it took over three days for these guys to fully dry.
I use Loc-Tite Gel Glue for just about everything (see below - glueing the heads back onto my Momiji dolls. Looking into their headless, smiling faces as I performed surgery on them made me feel like a cheerful Dr. Frankenstein. Odd feeling). Loc-Tite is a little hard core (one false move and your elbow is stuck to your big toe forever), I'm sure a hot glue gun would have worked, but this is faster.
After every nook and cranny dried, it was time to test drive my new bookends! Hope you like them! BTW - a collection of a few of my favorite books, and that diffuser is Paddywax in Basil Cucumber. Lastly - look at more fun things you can do with spray paint and plastic animals!!
xo, Box Intimates
