Thursday 1st April

Yesterday, the 1st April, Andrea said I had to come to work with her.

After we got off the bus, we walked past this shop!!!

And Here's my Own Seat at Andrea's desk!!!

And I saw my friend Goosey!! She laid a chocolate Egg for me!!!

After that, we played with some elastic bands! That was funny!

I love Chocolate Eggs!

before we went home, Andrea let me jump up and down on her Keyboard!

She said it's called "Typing".

On the way home, we stopped at Internet Cafe and put up an On Line Workshop on the http://www.beaniemouse.blogspot.com/ blog.

Beanie's Found Art Workshop Part 3: Cards

Now we need to make a Card that will fit inside the envelope. You'll need some card - maybe from some packaging or a breakfast cereal box that your owner has finished. You need to measure it so that it's twice the length of the short side (or slightly smaller), and slightly shorter than the long side of the envelope. You may have to cut bits off - but save those bits!

Then fold the card in half so that you can fit it inside.

For the Origami Envelope that I showed you, You'll need to trim off two of the corners with a pair of scissors.

Now all you need to do is use up some of those found train tickets and sugar wrappers to decorate the front of the card, and then it's ready to post!!

Beanie's Found Art Work Shop, Part 2: Envelopes.

Now, to make an Origami Envelope, you'll need some kind of flier, like an take away menu from a restaurant. I'm using a Floor Plan from Lille Art museum!

First of all, unfold it to it's biggest flat size.

Then, the two short ends, fold them together and make a sharp crease down the middle.

Unfold. On one short end, fold one corner in to the sharp crease you just made in the middle.

The other corner, fold it in to meet the big triangle you just made.
Leave it like that!!

Turn it round, and do the same thing on the other short end. Fold in one corner to the middle crease - but it has to be the diagonal opposite to the other corner to the middle...

And the same with the other corner, fold it in to the big triangle.

Now, that long straight edge down the side..... fold it in so that it meets the inside long edge of the big triangle.

There's a little flat in the middle of the page. You need to "turn it over" so that it makes a central flap in the middle of the page, where the arrows are.

It should look like that when you're done.

Turn the envelope round and do the same on the other side.....
Turn the long edge into the middle...

And that corner, fold it up like the arrows.

Now, you'll have two long pointy bits which you need to fold in towards the other side.

And then the same with the other pointy end...

The two pointy bits should fit together nicely in the middle.

Then, the pointy bit slides into the little flap that you made when you folded the sides in...

And the other pointy bit slides into that flap....

Et Viola!!! Or Bingo as we say in English!!!

And that's the front, ready for fake postage stamps, and somebody's address!!

Beanie's Found Art Workshop Part One A

I also remembered that when you look for things on the sidewalk (pavement), sometimes you can Hit The Jack Pot, and find things like CDs (although they're usually broken)

This picture is taken from here....

http://found-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-did-more-shlepping.html

And if you do something like this, you'll need to buy a Tub Of Gesso from the Art shop. You'll also need some ribbon or raffia to hang it up with when it's finished, and if you want to glue stuff on the CD, it's best to use All Purpose Glue.

We've also found Flip Flop shoes outside!!!


http://found-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/shoes-2.html tells you how we decorated them!

Again you need Tub Of gesso for this!

Beanie's Found Art Work Shop, Part One.

How To Make Found Art. OK, the first thing you need to do is collect up a bunch of stuff to use to make stuff with. You can find all sorts of free stuff on the sidewalk - like elastic bands, hair ties, used train tickets, used movie tickets, candy wrappers, yellow plastic "wet paint" tape, rings, washers, broken padlocks, earrings, pendants that fell off necklaces.

You can also use stuff like mashed up wrapping paper, too, and sugar wrappers and those little salt and pepper thingies from restaurants. And paper napkins too, specially if they've got stuff printed on them!!

Me and Andrea have a little plastic bag that we take out on walks with us, so that anything we find on the sidewalk, we can put in the bag to take home with us!

You'll also need some paper and card. I find that empty cardboard boxes are good, and card from the inside packaging is good, and those brown paper bags with handles that some shops put stuff in for you, they're good too. You can also use restaurant take-away menus, and what Andrea says is called Junk Mail, those advertisement things that get shoved through your letter box. They're good for found art!

To give you an example - yesterday when me and Andrea went to London, we got COMPLETELY FOR FREE 3 paper bags, a cardboard box, 2 shop receipts, printed cards (enough to make 6 standard postcards), 2 elastic bands and a hair tie (found on floor) and also, we liberated a sheet of part used "Special Offer" stickers!!!

Some other things you'll need but may have to purchase.... Glue Stick, Paint, Paint Brushes, Crayons, Holographic Sticky Tape (hard to find), rubber stamps, ink pad (any colour), stapler (not shown) and scissors (not shown) and sometimes a craft knife (not shown) can be handy, too. And a hole punch! The one I have here punches out a Maple Leaf, and you can get loads of other shaped ones too, but if you have already one of those "punch two round holes for a two ring binder" hole punches, that'll work just as well for now!

Now, if you would like to go and Find Some Stuff To Make Stuff With, I shall show you in my next WorkShop, how to make an Origami Envelope, a Card to Fit the Origami Envelope, A Tag and An Artists Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!