To be quite honest, I suppose it cant be that difficult to sink a bottled ship.
Stick it under the faucet, fill to the brim, screw on the cap and shake.
I don't know why I've been contemplating a boat in a hollow chunk of glass lately...maybe because I finally have a memory card back for my SLR. Time to get creative I think.
So, I have to say I had a bit of a disappointing morning today.
You know those things that you don't really know for sure but can hazard a pretty good guess at??
Like that little magic trick with the hoops that your second-uncle-twice-removed-on-the-left-side-of-the-family does every time he visits (about once every 5 years), or whether slugs are snails who've had their shells stolen or are just born as very under-privileged individuals, or if a cat really can fall from a 2-storey building, land on its feet and NOT break all four of its legs (go on kids, try that at home).
Well today I found out how you actually get the ship inside the bottle in the first place. And what a disappointment it was. Out the window with my theories of sticking a little ship on a pole and blowing the glass around it!! So much more fun than the real deal!
But no, dream shattered, in actual fact they just make a little boat with bendy masts, push it through the hole, the sails pop up and voila.
It is probably now that I will come to find that I was actually one of the only people in the world who didn't know this before and shall therefore proceed to look like a complete and utter plonker.
Can I get an amen?
Stick it under the faucet, fill to the brim, screw on the cap and shake.
I don't know why I've been contemplating a boat in a hollow chunk of glass lately...maybe because I finally have a memory card back for my SLR. Time to get creative I think.
So, I have to say I had a bit of a disappointing morning today.
You know those things that you don't really know for sure but can hazard a pretty good guess at??
Like that little magic trick with the hoops that your second-uncle-twice-removed-on-the-left-side-of-the-family does every time he visits (about once every 5 years), or whether slugs are snails who've had their shells stolen or are just born as very under-privileged individuals, or if a cat really can fall from a 2-storey building, land on its feet and NOT break all four of its legs (go on kids, try that at home).
Well today I found out how you actually get the ship inside the bottle in the first place. And what a disappointment it was. Out the window with my theories of sticking a little ship on a pole and blowing the glass around it!! So much more fun than the real deal!
But no, dream shattered, in actual fact they just make a little boat with bendy masts, push it through the hole, the sails pop up and voila.
It is probably now that I will come to find that I was actually one of the only people in the world who didn't know this before and shall therefore proceed to look like a complete and utter plonker.
Can I get an amen?
Well thats the EASY way to put a ship in a boat but there are also individuals (crazy individuals) who will spend... hours... days...weeks... months... YEARS??!?! assembling the tiny boats with long tweezers inside the boat. Me? I would rather blow glass around the ship and then watch it catch fire and burn way inside the glass bottle. It would be like art...
ReplyDeleteyou said "put a ship in a boat" :) that's all I need my Leisel! Putting a ship in a boat is much harder than putting it in a bottle...at least the bottle will still float.
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