(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

[cycledsingularity]

[Yes it is absolutely always time for motherly advice! Mono hums, mystified at the wisdom bestowed to him.]

"Ohhh." [Mono can't think of anyone they ever considered 'perfect' but nearly everyone seemed 'better' and perhaps that was a close enough comparison. It was hard to imagine Della needing help with anything, she even managed to coax him out of hiding. Still he does his best to nod along and absorb the knowledge.]

"Who. Should you trust?" [If there was a way to weigh who not to surely there were ways to know the reverse?]

[sos_pilot]

[ Della pauses, then lets out a puff of air. How did she not see that coming? She's got to stop giving advice when she doesn't have everything covered. ]

... Unfortunately, that's not as easy to tell. At least, for me. I've definitely been betrayed by people I've trusted.

[ General Lunaris can go suck on a bag of rocks. ]

... But it's helped me appreciate the good folks in my life all the more.

[cycledsingularity]

"..."

[It's a more somber, slower nod this time but also expected. Della couldn't have the answer to everything-- but hey that was the lesson she just tried to teach him, wasn't it? Mono gives his best reassuring smile and holds his paper to all the more attentively.]

"..Nobody. 's perfect."

[Maybe Della can’t fix all his problems… but she still might be able to figure out the intricacies of a paper bag. What mattered was that she was bothering to try.]

[sos_pilot]

[ Her expression softens, and if Mono was bigger, she definitely would have gone in for a hug or a head-pat. ]

That's right... but right now? You come pretty close.

[ She winks playfully, and then holds out the paper bag. It's not perfect - ho ho - but not bad either! ]

Whaddya think?

D'ohh ♡ Della got me with that line. This thread killed me with cute

[cycledsingularity]

[Hugs and headpats will have to be compromised for eventually, if the way Mono beams, once that comment sinks in, is any indication.]

"Nice!" [Mono pipes up, enthusiastically. Yes! It's a bag!! Not perfect yet, true, but a couple eye holes and a little dab of glitter glue to seal a few seams and it should be plenty close!]

"Fast!" [He'll have to study this. If Della figured it out so quick, surely in time he can too!]

he is now her smallest son

[sos_pilot]

[ Della chuckles, happy that he's happy. ]

Let's just say I used to be at a point where I had a LOT of free time to master the little stuff. Glad you like it.