The kids are making leprechaun traps for a school project.
"S"'s is a basic shoe box with a trap door, some plastic gold coins from the dollar store, a few brush strokes of green paint, and voila! A leprechaun trap.
"B" began the process with a totally different plan. "S" just wanted to get the darn trap finished and get back to playing hockey. "B", you see, really wants to catch a leprechaun; and has put some thought into how to do it.
It started last week with with "Mommy, you need to make some liquid gold for him to drink". You have to know that if a project STARTS with alchemy it only gets harder from there.
I consider myself somewhat of a MacGuiver in tasteful heels and lipstick, but I really did not expect to start this stuff with first grade projects. Plus, you have to know, it doesn't stop with the "Mommy, will you make the gold". Then it become, how will mommy figure out how to properly light and shoot the gold ... one strobe, two strobes? Snowballs! Things just snowball!!!!!
Long story short, we ended a full week of trap building with a fully functioning trap that is tripped when the poor soul lifts the cup of irresistible liquid gold, setting of a series of counter balances, which result in a cage being dropped on his head.
God forbid she catches one of these things. Where on earth will I keep it?
Notes - the liquid gold is made from oilve oil and gold flake from the art store. If you need an y flake let me know. I now have enough to last me 12 years
The images were shot in my kitchen with one off camera SB800 strobe; manual; 1/16 power (I think); shot through a dark colored paper cup with a small hole placed just below the glass container of liquid gold
