Gishwhes day one

[tripperfunster]

The list went up at 8am Saturday morning, and Julie (my bff and teammate visiting from Abbotsford) and I woke up early to get started.

The three we managed that first day were:


Item 178 Your room looks like a pigsty. Make this common parental figurative phrase a literal reality.

It was SO DAMN HOT that day, that it just about killed us to drag all of the furniture to the pig's barn from the house.




item 155 Let's see a portrait of Taylor Swift or Nicki Minaj made from glue, rice and dried legumes. (not our best work …)


item 44 Let's see a portrait of Robert Downey Jr made entirely of salt and pepper.

Comments

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

If ANYONE looks at that RDJ portrait and does not immediately faint in unbelieving joy at the artistry...well, they're just unappreciative idiots, then.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yanno, there was a metric ton of amazing RDJ pictures. this one is in the upper-middle of what I've seen. But thanks!! It seems that everyone really stepped up their game this year.

[synn.livejournal.com]

These are all awesome! The pigsty photo is just a great pic, and I never would have thought to use a stencil for the salt/pepper, but that's def. the way to go!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Oh man, stencils make everything easier when you're in a time crunch! I cut it myself, so it didn't feel like cheating.

[coffee-n-cocoa.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are all amazing! The RDJ portrait blows my mind!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I cut out a stencil to use, so that made it much easier than faffing around with pepper. So hard to not sneeze!

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

Wow these are great!! I love the pigsty shot, and the salt/pepper RDJ is AMAZING.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, I'm very happy with my piggy shot. Every other one I've seen is cute little piggies in someone's bedroom, which is fine too, but ours seems a bit different than others.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Note to self: do not show this post to younger daughter, who will want to install a pig to complete her midden aesthetic.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Pigs make everything better!!

[sra-danvers.livejournal.com]

OMG all the work with the room!!!
And as always, the ART work awesome!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you, my dear!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The RDJ looks like one of your paper cuts... and I love your pig!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I actually made a paper cut of him just to use for a stencil for this!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aha! Good idea!

[blackrabbit42.livejournal.com]

Your photographs are so beautifully staged. That was one thing that was frustrating to me... I felt like some of my items suffered from the fact that I was using my iphone to document.

All VERY cool!!

:)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My whole team did a pretty intensive self assessment, in the ways that we could improve over last year, and staging our items to tell a story was one of them. I also asked for a better camera for xmas last year. My last camera took okay pictures, but crappy video.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

amazing!
I just got an idea of a picture of a kid eating two houses to illustrate another parental cliche, "eating us out of house and home".

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Ha! Cute!

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

The look on Frulie's face is priceless, and I'd say salt n' peppa be yo new medium, girl!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

She is very rubber faced, like me! We both look like giant dorks in every single photo. :D

[redheadsarehot.livejournal.com]

Oh wow I was just gonna laugh and scroll but holy crap that RDJ salt and pepper pic. Amazing!!!!! I hope yall win this year :) My friend isn't doing it this year because she has to much stupid wedding shit to do.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon. I hope we won too, but there is HELLA competition out there! it is seriously crazy.