Papersaurus poo project update!

It's half term and I'm trying to mass produce large dinosaurs in my little and already quite full home! It's taken a fair few hours and I'm already starting on my third.

 Because it's the half term holiday we've had lots of visitors and we're planning a couple of days away. It will be nice to stop gluing and sticking for a while.

The first one isn't quite finished yet. It's got counterweights in its legs and tail and it's all been reinforced on the inside with pulp. There's still a few finishing touches missing including a catch for that hatch at the back and a little more strengthening for when it's played with.

We'll see how sturdy they are when they're properly tested by children. Sometimes no amount of reinforcing and preparation can do much against the destruction they can cause. I'm working hard to get the project up and running as soon as possible after Easter so we can test a few of these babies out!

They are completely handmade from paper and PVA. I think it's taken at least 4 newspapers for the base and 2-3 litres of PVA. I'm still working out the amount of hours and everything they take to make everything else. I think it's taken about 25 hours in total to build the first one but that could be off by few hours!

My excuse for not being more organised when it comes to recording these things is the lack of a proper studio/workspace [hopefully one day we'll have one and Paper Reloved will seem like a real thing!] and being distracted by children. I'm up late tonight finishing off because I had to move everything over so that our guinea pigs could take over the living room whilst they were cleaned out. The house is a tip. I'm tired and well overdue a couple of days off!

I'll try to get some better pictures up with my next post. These are just a small sample of the great many I regularly send my long suffering friends on watsapp! The ones I hurriedly took on my camera were overexposed.

I really should go to bed instead of waffling on!