(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

Art

[myblueskies]

"Wow!"

Romeo peered over at her painting, careful not to get too close should h smudge it or get glitter on it.

"That's so pretty!"

[pleple]

"Is it?" She thought it wasn't bad, but it was hard to tell what qualified as really 'pretty' art.

[myblueskies]

"It is!" He nodded, he knows Ple Two hasn't done much art before so he wants to be even more encouraging.

"It's got so many stars!"

[pleple]

He's doing a good job. "It's still not quite like being in space for real, but that's... difficult to capture."

[myblueskies]

"Yes it's tricky to make things look exactly what they do in real life but you just got to get the feeling. They idea!"

[pleple]

"It's more about the... impression of what space is like, then." What it feels like to be in space. She wants to be able to just drift around someday...

[myblueskies]

"Yes!" He smiled at her, "That's where you used to live, right? In space with all the stars?"

He thought it was maybe more like the space station they had helped once, rather than just floating in the darkness and sitting on the stars.

[pleple]

Ple Two nods. "I spent much of it on a warship, and a little more on colonies or repurposed mining asteroids."

[myblueskies]

"What's a mining asteroid?"

Warships sounded a bit scary. Living in space all the time sounded a bit scary actually but that was probably why Ple Two was so brave.

[pleple]

"Ah, well, asteroids are a source of certain precious minerals. Typically ships are sent out to them, and thrusters are attached to bring them into the Earth's orbit, where those minerals can then be mined for." Like gold. Who knows what the value of gold is in UC.

[myblueskies]

"Oh!" He nodded even though he didn't understand all of that. Still he understood that they brought minerals close to earth and then mined them.

"Is that what your job was?"

[pleple]

Ple Two shook her head. "I was a soldier, but we were based out of a large mining asteroid that had been hollowed out."

[myblueskies]

"A soldier?"

But she was little! Well actually she was a lot bigger than he was but he's pretty sure she's the same age as him.

"Was that really scary?"

[pleple]

Ple Two nodded at the first one. "I only existed to be used as a soldier. I didn't learn fear, really, until... I got here, where there are things I could lose if something terrible happens."

[myblueskies]

"You only were a soldier?"

That sounded so sad. He was a shinki yes and that was why he existed but he was also a friend and someone who liked art and dancing and playing games.

"You learned how to care for people and things?"

[pleple]

"Here, I've learned how to be a person." Perhaps with the same kind of support it could happen back home, but not having any reminders of her life has honestly helped. "I'm happy here."

[myblueskies]

"How to be a person?" He nodded, he could understand that. It was tricky, figuring out that sort of stuff.

"I'm glad you're happy!"