Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Greatest Piñata Ever Made, Part 3

My wonderful wife Courtney came to help today, and brought dinner (chicken-zucchini enchiladas and garlic cheddar biscuits)!

After work, but before my wife showed up, I cut and assembled the lower jaw. I'm already regretting my decision to "wing" the teeth (after tracing teeth from an actual skull onto the pattern) . . . they've ended up too short, too far apart, and too few. Oh well. It's still a wonderfully massive piece of cardboard, even slightly awe-inspiring up close. My amateurish photographs do it no justice (and some injury).

We each ate about one biscuit too many, and then the wife helped me apply papier-mâché. She put another layer on half the upper teeth, while I started replacing duct tape with papier-mâché on the inside of the upper jaw.

At the rate the papier-mâché is going, it should be ready in about eight months. Fortunately, I have about three weeks, so everything will work out fine.

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