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Post by ThatGirl on Feb 3, 2006 0:38:26 GMT -5
O.k.! I have survived my little girl's Science Fair, and can now enjoy some well-deserved play time! Her project has taken up all of our evenings.
So, what has been going on around here? I like the way the related sites are linked at the top. Very classy!
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 0:39:24 GMT -5
I hope she did well on it and everything is great with you. Congrats, THAT GIRL, you just started the 700th thread of this board.
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Post by MelMac on Feb 3, 2006 0:47:30 GMT -5
O.k.! I have survived my little girl's Science Fair, and can now enjoy some well-deserved play time! Her project has taken up all of our evenings. So, what has been going on around here? I like the way the related sites are linked at the top. Very classy! Glad you survived the science fair. I hated doing them, and I love science. What was the experiment? As far as here on the boards, we're continuing the interactive story, had several icons and pieces of fan art show up and even a few new fanfics. Also, there has been some cases of dueling banjos between a couple of us, but it's in good fun. I looked at the Michael Pare site to the other day, and it looked nice. I've perused all of the boards, and enjoy reading them all. It takes a lot of time and effort to make one, so it's cool to see one go up.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 0:47:55 GMT -5
Speaking of game thread, you should jump in THATGIRL.
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Post by ThatGirl on Feb 3, 2006 0:51:01 GMT -5
COOL!
Oh, she did very well. She is in Kindergarten. We had really good participation from kindergarten this year.
She loves to paint, so we decided to see what paints we could make from fruits and vegetables. It came out pretty cool.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 0:51:48 GMT -5
You are such a great mommy. I am glad she did well and had fun. Tell her that MelMac and HD were rooting her on. Not that she has ANY idea who we are.
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Post by MelMac on Feb 3, 2006 0:56:12 GMT -5
COOL! Oh, she did very well. She is in Kindergarten. We had really good participation from kindergarten this year. She loves to paint, so we decided to see what paints we could make from fruits and vegetables. It came out pretty cool. You know, that's actually a pretty cool science fair project. The two I did were on how to test rocks based on the Roh scale (fifth grade) and how well single cell batteries (i.e. Duracell) stood up to corrosion (10th grade). And, as HD said, please feel free to jump into the story. It's going rather well, and the more the merrier.
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Post by ThatGirl on Feb 3, 2006 1:04:14 GMT -5
OK! I'll try to catch up reading it.
LOL! She doesn't know who you are but she does know this site! She watches Tony with me. Actually, she just swoons over that bonus interview! LOL!
It was a cool project. We made paint from berries and peppers. It was quite a bit of work actually. We were trying to make a basic primary color wheel. We were able to get close to primary red and yellow, but not blue. We could not find a food item that produced the primary color blue. I think the Native Americans and the Middle Ages Europeans used some kind of rocks and minerals to make blue, but our project was supposed to be food only. It still came out pretty cool. She used the paint we made to paint some pictures and dye some fabric swatches. She even learned how to tie-dye with it.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 1:07:57 GMT -5
The Indians did have some rocks that worked things yellow and that could have been food. Of course she swoons over Tony...do you even let her WATCH the others?
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Post by ThatGirl on Feb 3, 2006 1:13:46 GMT -5
Haha! Of course! She likes everyone on the show. She just happens to love Tony. (Can't imagine why.) Yes, some of the things I read that the Native Americans did to make paint were a little disgusting. Besides, I really didn't have any ox blood handy anyway.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 1:14:29 GMT -5
Couldn't be the brainwashing I imagine.
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Post by ThatGirl on Feb 3, 2006 1:15:31 GMT -5
Couldn't be.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 1:16:04 GMT -5
Must be something else...must feel sorry for the guy from the wrong end of the gene pool. Sorry that they ever let him exist.
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Post by MelMac on Feb 3, 2006 1:47:33 GMT -5
Haha! Of course! She likes everyone on the show. She just happens to love Tony. (Can't imagine why.) Yes, some of the things I read that the Native Americans did to make paint were a little disgusting. Besides, I really didn't have any ox blood handy anyway. Yeah, I learned a lot about what they used the buffalo for when I lived in West Texas. Have to admit though it was fun at times to kid visitors at the musuem when they'd guess what some artifact was made of and got it wrong. (Won't say what, but will say you have to remember that they used every part of the buffalo b/c it's sacred). As far as coloring, I remember reading in my jewelrymaking book that hematite when crushed turns into a red ochre. Though it's mostly iron to begin with, it's odd because the stone is a shiny black. Malachite, which turns into a green powder when crushed, was used as eye makeup during Egyptian times. Same with lapis lazuli, a blue stone. Little bit of an anecdote, but it definitely was interesting.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 8:33:21 GMT -5
You shouldn't make the judgment of "interesting" for the rest of us you know. Getting a little hoity toity in your apprentice warlock stage aren't you?
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Relief!
Feb 3, 2006 13:53:25 GMT -5
Post by ThatGirl on Feb 3, 2006 13:53:25 GMT -5
Maybe next year we'll do one about colors from rock and minerals. You know, expand the project as she gets older. That is pretty interesting. I also read they used urine, which I don't even want to know about. I mean, what the...? They had no other liquid available?
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Relief!
Feb 3, 2006 14:16:45 GMT -5
Post by HoudiniDerek on Feb 3, 2006 14:16:45 GMT -5
Well, that is EASY to reproduce. You don't have to buy it or anything.
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Relief!
Feb 3, 2006 16:56:06 GMT -5
Post by ThatGirl on Feb 3, 2006 16:56:06 GMT -5
Yeah, anyone want to borrow a dog with an unlimited supply?
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Relief!
Feb 3, 2006 17:10:39 GMT -5
Post by MelMac on Feb 3, 2006 17:10:39 GMT -5
Maybe next year we'll do one about colors from rock and minerals. You know, expand the project as she gets older. That is pretty interesting. I also read they used urine, which I don't even want to know about. I mean, what the...? They had no other liquid available? Don't know about other tribes, but the Plains Indians didn't have much water to use to mix paints. Most of West Texas is pretty dry. Now, Quannah Parker and the Indians who lived in the Palo Duro Canyon had the Red River, but there's not tons of water there unless it rains (there is a good supply of water though). One formation there, Devil's Peak, was used to get red ochre for facepaint and other paint.
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Relief!
Feb 4, 2006 18:16:07 GMT -5
Post by ThatGirl on Feb 4, 2006 18:16:07 GMT -5
That's interesting. I just looked it up in Wikipedia and there was a lot of info about making paint from red and yellow ochre. I guess it's some kind of a natural clay.
Well, I love anything to do with playing with art, so I'm going to look into this more. Thanks MelMac!
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