Careful what you bid for - you may get it. Thank goodness I only won
one of the items we were bidding on. We're all celebrating. Our
daughter was telling everyone at church that we won the bench. They
looked at her sideways until she explained while pogo-sticking as she
told of the entire creation of the bench.
We procured the bench at the school auction. We hunter-gathered and hauled it back. We're really tired of moving this thing. We'll let it rest in the courtyard for a few months before we decide the final location - exactly. Spring will mean filling in the courtyard behind the bench with something wispy and tall - oh - and low maintenance since I seem to kill everything.
This started out as a way to create a great auction project to raise money for our school arts programs. Tom built the form from scratch with a plan he found on line. The children in our daughter's class created the butterfly tiles. We're fortunate to have a lot of glass and a small kiln at school. We came up with butterflies because they take fewer cuts and the children could decorate them with frit (glass boogers and crumbs). We fired them in two firings and added the edge pieces. Our four-year-old helped me with the edge pieces. He's particularly fond of the Eric-Carle-inspired caterpillar in the front. We will treasure this always.
I think I'm most grateful that we don't have to go through a variation on this process again due to losing THIS one at the auction. Whew!
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