(open) art day art day!

[happyends]

Who: Open to everyone, come and mingle!
Where: Garden carriage
When: Kazoo 27
What: For today the garden carriage is turned into a place to get creative.
Warnings: There's cakes. And glitter.

Whether or not you heard Romeo and Madoka's announcement, you'll know about it, unless you avoid the garden carriage somehow for the entire day (and then from then on). The changes are simple, but hopefully something to be built on: an outline made in gold paint that takes the shape of a tree with large curling branches that greets the viewer from the longer width of wall, and a fishing net draped down the length of wall by the nearest entrance, with strings hanging off it for decorations to be added to. Posters seem to be all over the carriage, carrying messages in a childish yet neat handwriting, like "Are you having a fun day? Please vote art so we can have do lots more art together!"

Small sitting pillows have been placed around so people aren't sitting on the bed of stones, and the statues once there moved to other parts of the 'garden', leaving them with sounds of the running water to keep them company.

So, just what is there to do?

THE CRAFTS;

The group have done their best to get as many art supplies as possible, with two trunks taken from the luggage car, and filled as tidily as possible. Inside one is a variety of papers, from tissue to cardboard, decorated and plain, some that's shiny, and even the kind for origami. There's also some sketchpads set out to the side, for any larger projects.

And in the net trunk is all the rest you'd expect: the fun supplies. Paints, inks, glue, glitter, threads, ribbons, and wooden beads, and even scissors are set inside. Some of those paints? Why, they're even shiny paints, and plenty of them. There are books too, at different crafting levels. From how to make paper cranes, butterflies, flower garlands, and whatever else you might imagine. How about a tree with stars?

Pretend what you want's inside them, and have fun.

Or perhaps you brought your own craft along to the carriage. Whether it's knitting, sewing or anything else creative you'd like to do, there's definitely a place for that as well! It's like there are spots in the carriage that have been left intentionally empty for people to sit down with their own tools and work.

MEMORY WALL;

Very, very simple folded animals have been put on the corners of where the netting is displayed, stretched out to make the most of the hanging that the netting provides (you have to get creative with what you can buy).

Looking it over, there's already what seems to be names on cards, placed around different parts of the netting. Perhaps you may recognize some of the names as people who have been on the train before, but have since left.

CAKE;

Of course there's cake. How else would they tempt people to come and sit down? There's one large cake made out of rainbow and sprinkles, and then a collection of cupcakes, all a mix of colours and whatever shakeable edibles has been decided to be plopped on top.

There's also a few plates of simple yet sweet biscuits cut into a variety of shapes (cat heads, dogs, dinosaurs, and even...a train), some with light icing, some not. The quality is about what you'd expect from some kids having fun in the kitchen, and the recipes are simple for it. Don't worry; you might have glitter and sprinkles dropping onto your lap with whatever you pick up, but the shakers were about all anyone went wild with in the kitchen than the baking.

Mami's helped to bring along refreshments in offering different flavours of tea, and there's even a few flavours of coffee to pick from too.

So grab a cuppa, a piece of cake, and have fun pretending you're five and in art class again and create a masterpiece.

Or even show others how to.

Comments

[myblueskies]

Romeo runs off enthusiasm, determination and today at least, glitter. He looked thoughtful at Siebren's words.

"Well it would still be better than in one of the carriages people wanted to do other things in... We could make sure we washed our hands when we went out of the glittery carriage!"

Clearly that was what an art carriage would be, just glitter.

[namethattune]

Enthusiasm and determination are necessary for any endeavor. The glitter is...negotiable.

"That is a good point, though consider: do you truly think the glitter will remain only on your hands?" It's said with a smile, and he nods good-naturedly at Romeo - or rather, at his fine coating of glitter.

[myblueskies]

"Um... I guess not..."

He frowned slightly, thinking and then brightened. "Maybe we should ask the train to make sure there's a shower in that carriage too!"

A de-glittering shower.

[namethattune]

A decontamination shower for glitter. Something about the concept strikes Siebren as utterly hilarious, and he fights to keep himself from laughing - the last thing he wants to do is damper Romeo's enthusiasm for this thought exercise.

"I see. And what is your proposed solution for glitter remaining on clothing?"

[myblueskies]

"Um..." That's a bit trickier. Because clothes took a lot longer to wash and dry than people did... So maybe they would need...

"Ah we could wear special suits! Just like you wear special suits to go under water or into space! We could wear them over our normal clothes and then take them off when we go out the carriage so our clothes won't get all glittery!"