10/31/13

My first beak

My older boy wanted to be a Venetian plague doctor for Halloween (basically a 17th/18th century hazmat suite, in which the beak was full of herbs etc):


So I spent several hours this past week beak making.  I feel that if I were to make two or three more beaks, I'd master beak-making, but at least I produced something adequate, though not nearly as finely wrought as I would have liked: 



Unfortunately there seems to be a cartoon show about spies in which there's a character who looks a lot like this,

and that's what quite a few kids at school thought he was.

Oh well. 

6 comments:

  1. He does look like a character from Spy vs. Spy! I wonder if the character design was inspired by the silhouette of plague doctors?

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  2. Not bad. Papier-mâché? Maybe next time with internal structure to get that arch?
    Or - here's a fab idea - maybe next time BEN could do it???
    Somehow, I think you'll like that idea best...

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    1. well, actually I enjoyed the beak making very much, and wouldn't mind trying again...

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  3. Regardless of what the kids thought your son was and how the mask turned out, I think it is SO COOL that your son KNOWS what a Venetian Plague doctor is and that he wanted to be one for Halloween! I applaud you for raising a child with this depth of knowledge and for supporting him in his interests by making a costume for him! You all deserve a trip to Venice to buy a mask for next year...

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    1. I have to confess that my own knowledge of Venetian plague doctors was rather sketchy this time last month...

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  4. You are a better mother than I am. I would have said, "Make it yourself or find something else to be." I hate making things. (inedible things)

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