Chills, turns and sticky tape...!

Well, it's a frozen and misty Monday morning, and the walk into town with Laurence was bracing to say the very least!

I am secretly wishing for some good snow. I would love to take the kids sledging, and get everyone out in the garden building snow dens and snowmen, but all we have had so far is a light dusting. 

Still, something rather excellent happened over the weekend. Joseph fully turned over, and now there is no stopping him. No matter where you put him down, he flips over, buries his face into the floor and pokes his bum in the air! What a clever little lad.


The first attempt at tape sculpting is completed. We grabbed the first thing that came to hand which would serve as a good template and didn't require much fiddling about with.

It came out pretty well, although we are in two minds as to whether we use the same method again, or try for something different. 
The method we used was to wrap the object - in this case a bottle - in cling film first, then cover in tape. It's fine, except when you come to cut a seam (so you can remove the bottle) the tape cuts fine, but the cling film tended to tear and bunch up a little which made patching up the seam a bit messy.
The alternative method is to cover the object with a layer of backwards tape first (sticky side out) then continue to cover normally. I can see how this might make cutting the seam easier. So we'll try that next.


Loz x