Wednesday, June 24, 2009

go! or not. not at all in fact.

as sharon so rightly guessed, we were making little basketty things made with glue-soaked yarn over a balloon.. like these.. with the intention of then weaving plant matter into the yarn to make a cool lantern for tonight's midwinter lantern festival.

they did look like this-
so anyway, this morning they felt suitably dry & crispy, so i decided to pop one..

yeah you've probably guessed it by now....




















yup.

are you supposed to *grease* the balloon or something?!?!

luckily i didn't pop it in front of alexis, so i'm going to leave the other one to dry for another day or two & see if that helps!

and now to come up with a new awesome lantern idea!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh no! Gutted for you, but no clever ideas, sorry!

Nova said...

lol nah it was actually kinda funny watching it collapse in on itself in an almost slow-motion fashion ;)

i've just started lantern idea V2 - thank goodness for the internet!! :D

Sharonnz said...

Awwww...bummer. Looking forward to seeing the finished one;-)