Competition with Play Doh

To win this 'build a model with Play Doh' competition would
be great, $10,0000 would be handy right now.

No actually, I really need that money to fix poor Rosie my car.
She needs thousands spent on her.

So radio station KIIS and Play Doh combine, to let any age
person build a model, preferably of the prize they'd like to win.

Well a trip to Paris would be nice, and still money left over to
fix my car.

Now Play Doh and I have a bit of history. We didn't buy heaps
of the stuff, well commercially, because everything is somewhat
expensive isn't it ?

We did buy some, and also some tools, then it became quite a
collection of second hand modelling tools. Around the
neighbourhood  from garage sales or op shops, we gathered,
until we had the best collection of kiddy modelling tools in town.

A breakthrough - was finding out you could actually cook your
own, on the stove top. From cheap basic ingredients, add food
colouring to dye.

You could even add glitter of you wanted. So I made a fair bit of
the stuff for my 3 kids, and they had fun at their little clear perspex
table out on the deck.

So it took me back, doing this again years later. I had donated their
tool kit, to a friend with younger kids when mine grew out of it.
So had to find replacement gear from kitchen utensils, clay
modelling tools etc.

I made lots of the basic colours, intending to intermix to get
secondary colours. Making black was going to be tricky.

I had to come up with something eye catching, different, and
probably topical. Miss Piggy and Kermit's break up had been in the
media lately, so that was my spark.

So a spa was fashioned, from a recyclables base of styrofoam
boxes our plumbing parts had come in.

Then the two figurines were modelled, and held together with
armatures of wire and toothpicks and skewers.

Play Doh is not really intended for fine modelling detail, I soon
realised, many frustrating hours later.

After one stage of nearly throwing it in the bin, I decided to
persevere. There was deadline of only 3 days. Make or break time.

Think of a quirky title. Make a Parisian backdrop with the iconic
Eiffel Tower. Photograph and submit. Well, being technology-
challenged, ask your daughter to submit.

It's done now, and really I don't think I could have done any
better, due to the degree of difficulty with dough, and time
constraints.

C'est la vie!

 The plain dough, ready to colour.

 Basic colours, and a marbled one for the edge of the spa.

 Spa made, cover all in Glad Wrap as dough dries out and salt crystals start to show.

 Make a backdrop of Paris skyline at night, as seen through a window. 

An old frame was used for this and a pic printed off the Internet.

 Cocktail glasses not so great - but as they were last I was well and truly over it all by now!

 Miss Piggy at first was way too busty, it had been hard to calculate her size, no reference showed it really well. So after a comment by my daughter on this, it was decided to give her a breast reduction.

The couple in happier times.