Making Masks

Well, this is our second day in Chicago, unless you count the half day at the beginning. It's sort of a tradition to make clay masks at my grandma's house, and so she has a whole bunch of neat homemade masks made by my relatives hanging on her dining room wall. Ruth and I each made one last year, but we didn't like them that much, so this year we're making new ones. I just finished making mine, but I haven't painted it yet. I was going to make a evil guy, but it just turned out to be a chubby guy with a mustache. Grandma's house is way more interesting then ours. She's an artist, and she makes lots of great paintings and hangs them on every inch of wall she can find. She has been living here for a long time, and if you dig around in the basement you can find all sorts of cool stuff. I found an old-fashioned shock ring that vibrates when you shake someone's hand, the change machine my dad used when he ran an ice cream truck, and treasure like that. I've been petting Grandma's dog Zoey a lot, as usual, we went to the art institute yesterday, and we ate lunch at at a little park next to the art institute form the same place we ate at last year (the same park, even!), Max's takeout. Here is a link to the blog entry I made last year when we ate at Max's Takeout: LINK

Vehicles

Today I just thought I would post some pictures of the vehicles that I had made.

Beer (above) is a spaceship I made a very long time ago at an art from scrap workshop. He is the first one I made.

Vroomy (Above) is a spaceship and I made him at a art from scrap workshop. He is the second vehicle I made.
This is Tanky Green, the third one I made, also at the art from scrap workshop. I made it out of a strawberry container, toilet paper tubes, and caps for small containers. I covered it in green tape to make it look more camouflaged.
This is Freighty, a spaceship I made at the art from scrap workshop right after Tanky Green. I don't know why I decided to make this one a freighter, maybe it was so that I could make him carry Tanky Green.
Next I made Tanky Red, the one you see here. I made him at the rental house that we had while we were evacuated from the fire. At that time the only materials I had were paper, pipe cleaners, and dental floss. Later I got some red tape and improved him and gave him his new name.
This is trucky, a jet-truck I made recently.
This is a flying saucer that I just finished and I am going to use for one of the vehicles in my craft economy of Andyroom.
It has a little window underneath it that you can see out of. The video below is taken by someone who was inside the flying saucer and looking out the window.

Crafts

Great honkin' moons of Jupeter, I haven't made a blog entry for such a long time I feel guilty. Anyway, I better start this one now without further apology so that I don't run out of time. Ruth and I have been making LOTS of crafts, sewing and stuffing people, building them houses, and constructing vehicles. I like making the houses and vehicles a lot more than I like sewing the people, so Ruthroom had a much bigger population than Andyroom. Oh, speaking of which, we're doing this "competing economies" thing where Ruth and I sort-of race to see which economy is the best. Don't worry, we're going about it with friendly intentions, but we do plan to have a Cold War somtime. Even though Ruth's population is larger than mine, I pride myself in vehicles and structures. I've got plenty of plans for houses, and I've started on a really great 2-story house, ith sort of a large attic. I'm almost done with my flying saucer, and I have started bulding this really cool transforming spaceship. I also am planning on modifying my paper vehicles so that they are useable. If you haven't read about my papr vehicles, click here or here or here.