Apparently, ManRay is hosting the Miss Goth Massachusetts Contest tonight

[xiphias]

I went into the Boston Children's Museum today to do some shopping.

See, the Children's Museum has this thing called "Recycle!" where you can get a shopping bag full of junk suitable for use in craft projects for $6.30. You pick the junk you like. It includes paper, and ribbons, fabric, Styrofoam, cardboard, foam rubber, and all sorts of stuff. And just other random stuff. Like, a barrel full of CDs of SimCity 2000: you could, if you wanted to, get a shopping bag full of SimCity 2000 CDs for $6.30.

Anyway, I had a meeting with my boss at the Hebrew School where he suggested that I should be doing more arts&crafts stuff, so I went there, looking for things that would make good Tzedakah boxes. I didn't find anything too useful for that, but I did find some dandy things for mezzuzahs. And a bunch of shiny things. . . lots of shiny things. . .

I started talking to the woman behind the counter, who's going to be competing in Miss Goth Massachuetts tonight, mainly because they said they'd let her bring her band up for a set for the talent portion. Her name's Lauri, and she looked REAL familiar to me, and I looked familiar to her. But we couldn't quite manage to figure out if we actually know each other.

Comments

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

What might you be making tzedakah boxes out of? I have this theory that glass jars with screw-on metal lids (peanut butter, etc.) would make good basic forms, maybe for tissue-paper "stained glass" decoupage the way we used to do in Girl Scouts. :-)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Glass jars is one idea I had. Yogurt cups is another, for smaller ones. Or something like frosting tins, that would work, too.

Depends what I get nine of by next Sunday.

In any case, I'm more likely to have the kids do decoration by gluing paper onto them than doing decoupage; there's only so much mess can deal with.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I was using the term "decoupage" loosely. And unless I got impatient and threw them out, I just happen to have about 6 clean peanut butter jars I was saving for some vague purpose like this. want 'em?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I would *love* 'em. I've got a peanut butter jar and a chocolate U-Bet jar sitting around, so, if I can scrounge up just one more, I'm golden. And I'm sure I can scrounge up just one more. If you've got 'em, I'd love to take them off your hands.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Dude. :-) Let me check my cabinet tonight, and I'll e-mail you tomorrow to confirm and make arrangements.