Dirty Money

Hey, it's my birthday!  I decided that I wanted to get creative with another challenge today, so here we go.

Day 49: Quantity over quality.  Work with a lot of something.  It could be dried grains from the kitchen, a jar of buttons you have in the closet, or all of your T-shirts.

A quick think and a look around and I decided to work with a jar of pennies I have.  My sister got in and created a few things too.  Here are the pics:

My first design, a swirly thing.

Christine's penny tower.

A few creations by Chris, alternating rows of shiny and dark coins.

Close-up of the snowflake design.

The unedited photo of the triangle.  I really like the way the photo looked unedited, so I decided to leave it alone.

Chris's kitty face design.

My dark-to-shiny progression design.

A close-up of the shiniest of the shinies.

And the darkest of the dark.

And some of the middle-tones.

It was fun to play with the coins and get ideas, but after even just a few minutes, my hands smell all coppery - not that I mind, but there is definitely nothing like that smell.

Tower

Challenge 48: How tall can you make something that stands up on its own?

Naturally, my first thought is LEGO.  So I get out the tub of Lego, spill it all over the living room floor and start to build.  Of course, it's not as simple as that.  There's the sorting out of undesirable pieces, the saving of awesome pieces, and so on.

After about 40 minutes of sorting and building, my tower began to look a little wobbly so I decided to call it good.  Here is the result - first, a couple different views of the entire tower:

A close-up view of the top.  I found a lot of pieces that I wanted to save to use on the very top, not limited to a shark/swordfish, a treasure box, a skeleton dude, some flowers, a cannon, and a barrel:

That skeletor dude is riding that big fish, backwards, while wearing a very sweet battle helmet and drinking a giant cup of wine.  He fears nothing:

That's my tower.  I measured it and it stands about 30 inches high.  I think that I've probably made a few taller pieces than this one before and could sit and play with Lego for hours, but today, my Skeletor Tower reigns as is.  Until one of the cats knocks it over.