Every Tuesday, it’s a craft, a cocktail and friends. To join the action, check out past posts at www.toocutetuesday.com, fan the page on Facebook to get the inside scoop, or contact Nicole to start a chapter where you live.
The following post is written by guest blogger Sarah, head of the Saint Louis division of TCT. They get organized on Facebook so join them there to follow their crafty pursuits!
This week, since Nicole is out of town in beautiful Savannah, Georgia, Too Cute Tuesday ) St. Louis picked up the slack and, instead of just crafting like we usually do, tried to pitch in with a blog post.
This week, it was just a few of us since there’s a St. Louis Cardinals game tonight (and at 95 degrees outside, I think we have the better end of the deal). And, in honor of it being summertime and being able to hang our laundry out on the line (or, we would if we had a backyard), we’re getting crafty with clothespins.
Most TCT-StL crafters nightlight as graduate students, and it shows. No simple caterpillars for us! Instead, we tackled a mysterious deer-antelope creature, a Green Bay dragonfly, and a butterfly.
Cocktail: Cabernet and Guinness. Not together.
1. Acquire all materials at craft central: clothespins, hot glue gun, and construction paper.
2. Realize that you don’t have any construction paper. Improvise instead.
3. Take a spring-loaded clothespin and make the body. Kevin used marker, Sarah used wrapped yarn, and Jillian went au naturale.
4. Decide how to deal with wings.
4.a. Discuss how such insect planning parallels thesis planning. Get stressed out and remember you’re at TCT! Crafting isn’t stressful!
5. Create wings using pipe cleaners or felt (or the lost construction paper) and attach via hot glue.
6. Add whatever other features your insect requires.
6.a. Be marveled at how Jillian managed to create a whole animal using only clothespins.
6.b. Show your graduate student-ness as you insist on “appropriate anatomy” and add legs to your insect.
Quote of the night: Kevin ) “I am very proud of my dragonfly. It is the best craft I have ever made.”
A fun evening with friends, insects to hang around the lab ) aren’t you crafty?