Life In Plastic, It's Fantastic!

A couple of days ago my coworker coincidentally asked me if I could recommend something that could keep a chain from loudly clanking against a metal case. I recommended my good friend Plasti Dip! He was aware of Plasti Dip, having used it in the past to coat bike parts. But he uses it in spray form!! "Wow, how cancerous is that?" I wondered. I can't wait to find out, because aerosol Plasti Dip is RIFE WITH POSSIBILITY. SQUEE!!

I told my coworker that I have only used Plasti Dip for real grown-up reasons once, the aforementioned hammer-dipping, and that I usually just use it for pranks such as dipping my Barbies' heads in it. He responded, "Barbie heads??" I realized then that the poor dear has no idea what Plasti Dip is for.

Today I brought him a gift, which I strapped to his filing cabinet thusly:

Her forehead reads, "ASK ME ABOUT PLASTIDIP." I wrote our initials with "To:" and "From:" on the back so that when he's accused of being a serial killer he has some evidence that it was a gift and not some kind of effigy.

Come on Barbie, let's go party! Even if you can no longer brush the hair.

Diggin' Through the Pile

I'm hopefully going to be unloading tons of "art" in the name of charity. I've been digging through the house and unearthing potential sale items. It's funny how much stuff I have put on the wall or on a shelf and then ignored until it all just became part of the scenery. Here are two of the things I found.

The first is a wooden mini-coffin. These things are great! I get them at Michael's at Halloween, stockpile them, and decorate them as the mood strikes. I sprayed this one with Krylon black primer and decoupaged Fangoria stuff on it. I also have a bunch of plastic bugs which I colored with a gold sharpie and glued to the box with E-6000.

The metal "nails" are Bedazzle studs that I nailed in with a tack hammer. His eyes are Bedazzle rhinestones that I glued on.

This is just all sharpie. I hope one day to be buried in something as fine as this.

Oh yeah, I have piles of those rad little skeletons, too. I usually get them at Big Lots and they come on a rope. He's a little too tall but I was able to squish him into the coffin.

The next thing was a Barbie box/purse thing (I need to find out what these are actually called, since I'm disfiguring them on the regular.) I started it before I discovered Krylon black primer (friends, those were dark times), so I just decoupaged a bunch of Fangoria stuff on it and then colored in pink parts with sharpie. It didn't work so great:

That's some weird useless hollow rubber skull on an elastic string. I have no idea where it came from, but it reminds me of the kind of thing that one prize ticket would buy you at the counter at Showbiz Pizza.

It's just flowers and sushine over at my place! Here's the inside. I left the ribbon saying "Barbie" because I really didn't want to replace it and I figured since the sharpie wasn't working out so good I wouldn't bother trying to color it:

I lined the whole interior with red duct tape, which is sort of working but also keeps peeling up around the edges. Then I added a duct tape pocket and a Fink patch, and the requisite G.B.H sticker. So critical. And I glued in some bat trim. I need to remember where I ordered it from because that place was rad. I'll figure it out. Anyway, this thing is a hot mess so it's going cheap.

If this charity thing happens, I'll post about it so everyone can come purchase my terrible shit "art" and feel good about themselves. I like to give back to the community.