(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

[chocobosnap]

"That would totally be an awesome job if I could just ride chocobos all day." Prompto giggled. "It's really the chocobo that does all the work. They're really fun, and if you're good to them they go really fast."

[myblueskies]

"I bet they make good friends and if you were good friends with one and made a good team you could go so fast!"

He reaches to grab a sketchbook and some crayons and begins drawing. "I'm going to draw you as a Chocobo pilot!"

[chocobosnap]

"That's how the best racers do it, I'm sure of it. Chocobos are smart, you have to be really nice to them." Prompto gushed. Whether or not that was true, who knew? But there was nothing wrong with being nice to chocobos.

"That sounds pretty awesome!" A chocobo pilot would've been a great career choice for him.

[myblueskies]

Prompto had used yellow paper for the folded chocobo and so Romeo used yellow crayon as he began to draw.

It would soon become obvious that the enthusiasm was not matched with skill, Romeo has the art ability of a much, much younger child but there is certainly a yellow monstrosity of a drawing appearing.

"They must be very big right? If people ride them. Are they as big as a horse?"

[chocobosnap]

It was the best yellow monstrosity, change Prompto's mind.

"Uh, well I don't know." They didn't have horses. "They are pretty big though! They're taller than me."

[myblueskies]

He made the monstrosity even taller, adding a smaller monstrosity to be Prompto riding the creature, but looking more like he was being consumed by a yellow swirl monster.

"I'm going to draw a shiny ribbon as well because I think you would win all the races."

[chocobosnap]

"I don't see how I can't win all the races with a cool chocobo like that." Prompto gushed a little bit.

"The only other thing I need too is some greens to feed him. Chocobos get really hungry you see."

[myblueskies]

"Greens!" He found a green crayon. "Do they eat green things like vegetables or green things like leaves and trees?"

He could draw either or both!

[chocobosnap]

"They like Gysahl Greens the best." Prompto said with a grin. "They're like balls of green that you peel leaves off and feed it to them so it's kind of both, but they'll eat other vegetables too. They like all kinds of treats. But only vegetables. You can't feed them meat, it would make them sick."

[myblueskies]

He's never heard of Gyshal greens before but they sound very yummy for a bird!

"I bet you can't feed them cake either." He nodded. "I will draw lots of yummy green vegetables for them!"

[chocobosnap]

"Nope, you don't want to feed them cake. They'll probably throw up on you and that would be kinda gross if you ask me." Prompto commented all too helpfully while he was still folding his origami.

"They like the green ones the best." He assured Romeo.

[myblueskies]

"Eww." That would be very gross. No feeding cake to chocobos. He drew more green vegetables.

"There we go. But you need a snack too so you got enough energy for racing! What's your best food?"

[chocobosnap]

"Oh man, that's a pretty tough choice, I like a lot of stuff." He considered the easiest thing, or maybe the silliest.

"You know what Noct and I used to have all the time? Pizza!"

[myblueskies]

"Pizza!" He grinned, "Pizza is very yummy and you can put lots of nice things on it!"

It was also pretty easy to draw, because it was just a circle. He drew a pizza next to Prompto, bigger than Prompto's head.

"You can but vegetables on it too so then it is like you and your Chocobo friend are sharing a meal together."

[chocobosnap]

"Sounds perfect to me. I love vegetables on pizza anyway." Prompto snickered a little bit. "Which is funny because my friend Noct can't stand vegetables at all, but the chocobos know what's up."

One should always trust chocobos.

[myblueskies]

"He doesn't like vegetables?" He looked surprised. Vegetables, like almost every other food, were delicious!

"He won't be healthy if he doesn't eat vegetables, they're important. You can't just eat sweet stuff all the time!"

[chocobosnap]

"I let Iggy pester him about that." Prompto said with a grin and held a finger to his lips.

"Besides he seems kinda fine for the most part. Iggy probably sneaks them in more than he knows. Don't tell him okay?"

[myblueskies]

"I won't!" He promised with a smile. "It's good that Iggy helps him keep healthy. Is Iggy your friend as well?"

[chocobosnap]

"Uh huh!" Prompto said cheerfully.

"That's Ignis, and there's also Gladio. We're all friends together." He was really glad to have his friends.

[myblueskies]

"Oh I know them!" He grinned and then it faded slightly.

"Well I did know them when they were here, but they've gone now. Mister Ignis and mister Gladio were really nice though!"

[chocobosnap]

"That totally sounds like them." Prompto agreed with a bright smile. "They're both really nice."

[myblueskies]

"They are!" He grinned. "I hope I can see them again some day!"