Artsy craftsy bits of time-wasting nonsense

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If you've been reading our forums lately, you may have seen Jake's reference yesterday to a paper bag puppet gallery that has taken up residence in the new conference room (a.k.a. the Romper Room). This reminded me that we made paper bag puppets over lunch three weeks ago and no one ever posted a blog about. So here you go!



We started with a package of construction paper, 100 brown paper bags, and a dog-eared copy of Surfin' the Highway. Oh, and lunch, but there was far more artsy-crafty time-wasting than lunch-eating.

It's funny how quickly construction paper causes you to regress. We ran short on white paper so some of us had to get creative.[readmore]



Lessons learned: ten adults are not good at sharing two pairs of scissors. Also, glue sticks have nowhere near the nostalgia quotent that flour paste would have had, but what can you do?

The finished puppets are now a fixture in our new conference room, which we have lovingly dubbed the Romper Room. This most excellent room came into existence when Dan moved out of his office into another office on the other side of The Wall. (It may have been knocked down but it's still with us in spirit.) It was supposed to have become somebody else's office, but before it could be claimed, comfy chairs started showing up in there, then a coffee table, then a mangled-up pinata (empty, unfortunately) that we scavenged when the American Cancer Society moved out downstairs, and then a weird retro standing hairdryer that Kevin claims he brought all the way from Florida when he moved here.



It is unquestionably cooler than the regular conference room, and there have already been a few scuffles regarding who gets to use it when. Dave and Brendan have a sneaky habit of slipping in while the rest of us are arguing over it and closing the door behind them, leaving us peering longingly at them through the window. They claim they're writing episode 5, but we know they're just using that room for the comfy chairs. In fact, they're in there right now, at this very moment, doing some of that so-called work and lounging around in the comfiest of comfy chairs. Not that I'm bitter.



Anyway, here's the gallery... it's like a little Max puppet army!

So, here are our Max puppets. Where's yours?