It's been a productive day here on the ridge even if it was Sunday.
Yesterday someone asked me about a clock. I told them that I had made a few clocks in the past.....so the wheels started turning in my head.
Yesterday someone asked me about a clock. I told them that I had made a few clocks in the past.....so the wheels started turning in my head.
Clocks, Caribbean, beach, island.....OK....then I started thinking about recycled art. Recycled art clocks! And what else could you call clocks made from recycled materials but "Recycled Time"!
So.....here's the first clock out of completely recycled materials. The clock works is the only thing that is new. Not even the hands are new, they're hammered copper wire. The rest of the clock is made out of slats from broken shutters.
More clocks to come!
While I was busy with the clocks, Mr. Invent It was working on an air cannon to shoot glitter & confetti. Why do we need an air cannon to shoot glitter & confetti you ask?????
Well.......we were afraid that if we built a potato gun to shoot glitter & confetti that the hairspray might set the paper towel wadding on fire and then we'd be shooting a flaming hunk of paper along with the glitter & confetti, which might not be a good thing, especially when you are dealing with a street full of drunken idiots.
So.....here's the first clock out of completely recycled materials. The clock works is the only thing that is new. Not even the hands are new, they're hammered copper wire. The rest of the clock is made out of slats from broken shutters.
More clocks to come!
While I was busy with the clocks, Mr. Invent It was working on an air cannon to shoot glitter & confetti. Why do we need an air cannon to shoot glitter & confetti you ask?????
Well.......we were afraid that if we built a potato gun to shoot glitter & confetti that the hairspray might set the paper towel wadding on fire and then we'd be shooting a flaming hunk of paper along with the glitter & confetti, which might not be a good thing, especially when you are dealing with a street full of drunken idiots.
Why do we want to shoot glitter & confetti??? Well doesn't everyone????
Norma from the Domino Club (home of the world famous beer drinking pigs) has a float in the annual St. Patrick's Parade and it needs to shoot glitter & confetti into the crowd! (without setting anyone on fire!)
So Mr. Invent It has been working on his air cannon all afternoon. He has a friggin' brass valve in that thing! With a big leaver handle!!! Brass, I tell you!!!
Finally just after dark he was ready to test it. He hooked it to the compressor and pumped it up. (have to watch the gauge so as not to explode the PVC pipe by putting too much air in) Stuffed in a couple of damp paper towels and with a flick of that handle on that damn brass valve, he launched paper towels into the darkness! The test firing was a success!!!
I ran in and got some red glitter, another damp paper towel and the big flashlight. By the time I got back to the front door with the glitter he had brought the thing inside. We started to recharge the cannon & realized that we needed to take it back outside before we loaded it with the glitter. We would have never gotten the red glitter out of the kitchen if it had accidentally fired!
We took it back out, he recharged it, stuffed in another damp paper towel and I poured in the glitter, aimed the light in the same direction that he had the cannon aimed and......poof!
The paper towel blew by the top of the palm tree, trailing red glitter! You could see it falling through the light, like some kind of weird red snow storm! It was GREAT!!!!
We will be tracking red glitter into the house for months!!!
Recycled art & glitter launching air cannons.....it was a good day!
BE BOLD, SHOOT GLITTER, WEAR ART!!!
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