This is how much I love my daughter
December 19, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Home & Living
Maybe I should say, “This is how much I trust her!” This is not another Halloween costume (The Mummy), but rather I became her head model so that she would have an anatomically correct form to use in building armour. Yes, really.
And yup. Claustrophobic me is under all that gunk. She covered me in algaenate and then plastered over it. {shudder}
This is what she had me do to her a few weeks ago…I really think she got the better end of the deal:
See? She’s still smiling!!
You are such a good Mommy Cyndi! I think I’d be afraid the stuff would not come off and I’d be stuck like that forever! Now I’m curious, why is your daughter making a full suit of armour? And it would be nice to see it when it is completed, post a pic, yes?
Happy Holidays!
Elaine
Just looking at it makes me feel claustraphobic. You are a good Mum…so cool. Waiting in anticipation of seeing the end result.
I still can’t believe that I did it! My husband, who took the pictures, was sitting right there talking with me the whole time
The armour…yes, I’ll sure try to get her to share pictures of it, or at least of parts of it. She is experimenting with lots of different molding making, casting, and sculpting techniques, because she’s interested in doing special effects costuming when she graduates from art school this spring
That looks like fun, but only if you were in a SPA and getting your mani and pedi at the same time!
Good for you Cyndi!!
Cyndi, when I was in my twenties I wanted to make my own dress form. A friend came over and put the plaster bandages (that you wet to start the chemical hardening process going) all over my torso as I stood there in my bathing suit. I didn’t anticipate that it would get so warm under the bandages, and I fainted! I am not a “fainter,” so it took us by surprise. I can’t even imagine how my friend must have felt when I went down. I can laugh about it now, and did then, BUT I’ve been kind of leery of the whole process ever since.
So I salute you, Mama!
Hey Debe, next time Dani needs a head mold, I’ll call you! I promise to do a manicure on you while she wraps your head…
Carol, you’re right, it is funny now though it probably wasn’t at the time! I did a dress mold with duct tape over an old t-shirt. You cut it right up the back to get out of it, and then tape over the slit. No heating necessary.
I was a bit worried about the plaster heat, but the algaenate is so slimy cold that the heat was welcome!
Yeeewwww…slimy cold…..even more brownie points for Cyndi.