Greedy Lil' Kids....and The Parents who Use Them...

Now there are rules to this aforementioned egg-hunt...You can kick children with a swift hard foot, but only below the knee....and you can only take their eggs, if you managed to knock them out of their hands first...easily done....At least these are rules we had decided upon, before we were informed otherwise...
...the preceedings were overseen by a rapidly melting, psychotic-lookin' snow bunny...all alone on the opposite hill...which resembled Oedipus in that his eyes had fallen out days ago, giving him a haunted and resentful quality...I would have taken that carrot nose and eaten it right in front of him, but it was a waste of time, once his vision was gone...




And so a plague decended on Penland...and yeah, it was horrible....A pestilence of little children....pimped out by their parents, armed with large baskets...and ready to grab as many hand made eggs as possible....leaving the rest of us empty handed....
Or so was the picture in my head as Easter morning approached....I had all sorts of strategies in mind....but it ended up being alot less bother....I didn't get the egg made by the metals teacher, however, but I did get the one made by her teaching assistant.....



Who is a bad-ass in her own right, and does some amazing work...like the one I got: electromagnetic paint, applied to a balloon...submerged into a bath conducting a current...that attracts copper to the paint....the bath wasn't working right, but result was this fragile thang, which makes it even cooler in my eyes...just the kind of thing I'd pick up walking home: rusty, and beautiful...You know me....



The one I finally made was much sturdier, by comparison...



....a simple spiral of steel...I 'd tell you how I did it, but then you'd realize how simple it is, and not think I am the iron stud...that I rightly am..... I found the gal who found mine, later, after the egg-riot was over....and had to get a picture...



Hope you all had a swell easter....

Erin Jones....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!