Didya Miss Me?

Holy Cow!  Has it really been two months?!?!  I assure you I have good reasons excuses.  First being that we took a little respite from the RE’s office and second being all the freaking traveling I've been doing for work!  I promise I’ll try to do better. 

I believe I owe you some masquerade mask shenanigans.   And I am a woman of my word!  But I forgot to take picture as I went so here is a picture of my mess:

And a Picture of the final product:

I was really happy with how they came out.  For mine I just bought a white mask and attacked it with Elmer’s glue and glitter.  After it dried I went to town with the glue gun and some feathers.  I decided to leave the blue feathers off because they didn't match the blue glitter EXACTLY and I have a touch of the OCD.  J’s was more of a project.  I bought a plain white mask to use as a base and a sheet of black craft foam.  I had to widen the eye holes of the base mask because I’m quite certain it was made for a child.  Then I drew the design I stole from the internets on the foam and cut it out. 

Disclaimer:  I have a confession, I’m only medium crafty.  I can replicate almost anything.  I just don’t have any ideas of my own.  Pretty much everything I've ever made has come from replicating something else in one form or another.  You will find very few original ideas here.

OK, back to the mask.  After I had my foam cut out I glued it to the mask.  Sounds simple enough right?  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Here’s the thing I forgot about.  Foam is flat.  My mask was not.  Luckily for me foam can be pretty pliable.  It took a bit of stretching and sticking but I got it on there looking pretty decent.  The foam was a little wrecked after I got done with it and you could see some of the white from the base mask around the eyes, but  it was nothing a little flat black spray paint couldn't fix.  I then added a touch of glitter to jazz it up a bit and so we could be matchers.  I had to be careful with matching though because if there is one thing J hates it’s matching me.  Serious knock down drag outs have gone down in our house because I refused to change and we were wearing the same shade of gray.  No I am not kidding.  It’s a very serious matter (to him).

Bonus crappy cell phone picture of us wearing them:

OK, so that was the first installment of getting us all caught up.  Tomorrow I’ll bring you up to speed on all the baby makin business.  I PROMISE.