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Next Step: Jolene used a white paint-pen to grid-out Scrabble, |
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While I set to carving the individual game pieces for Operation. Sintra® is a fantastic material. It’s a flat sheet of pvc which can be cut easily, or heated up for easy molding. |
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I used the trusty roto-zip to quickly carve out these beauties: |
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Bill moved on to arranging the Scrabble tiles, in a mock up game. Don’t ask me why he chose the words he did. The only conscious choices were “Pirate” and “Mermaid”, as they are Jolene and my nicknames for each other. |
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The tiles were made of simple 1 X 4, cut 3” square. It was at this point that we noticed that in actuality, Scrabble tiles are slightly taller than they are wide. But we were too far in to change it up now. We soldiered on. After a quick sanding, Jolene set to lettering all those bad boys. |
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Since these costumes were going to be very heavy, hanging them off of our bodies would prove difficult. Difficult, that is, until my brother suggested using marching band bass drum harnesses. They could easily be screwed to the boards and subsequently removed for easy storage after Halloween was over. A shout out to the St. Michael – Albertville H.S. drumline for loaning us the harnesses. |
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Any bits of screw that poked through the other side met their doom by way of The Grinder! Kids: If your parents don’t create a cool display of sparks while making your costume, it means they don’t love you |
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Cavity Sam was shaping up, but the board needed a plastic red frame to give it the illusion of depth. Seeing no plastic around, we went with 1X2 furring strips. Bill carved notches into each one that would easily slide across the length of the luaun board. Some hot glue and nails and they were firmly in place |
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Hours later, Jolene was still lettering |
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OPERATION: SCRABBLE |