Indoor Antics

Four of our grandchildren came to our home for New Year's Eve, 2011, for a party and a sleepover (one of their favorite things to do).  I had purchased a book entitled, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IMMATURITY VOLUME 2.  It had some creative ways to have fun, if you are willing to be just a little "nuts."   We were, so we really had fun with it.  It had some pages you could hold up to your face and take a picture which made you look extremely weird (see center of page 2).  It also explained somewhat about "bulb photography."  Since Grandpa Phil has been trying out his hand at photography, he set up the tripod, and we "gave it a whirl" (literally).  The room must be completely dark, and the camera shutter has to be open 30 seconds.  Meanwhile, using a flashlight, you can write or draw whatever you can imagine.  I thought it was a good thing to submit as my photo challenge for February.   Since it was a wild and crazy evening (ending with hats and horns), I went a little wild and used Raspberry and Spring grid papers.   It was so much fun getting outside my "color box"!  The title letters are hot pink holographic, and I used hot pink gross grain ribbon at the corners to tie the first page together.  The children selected the colors and painted the walls (the others are of equally bright red, blue, and orange), and they love it.  Personally, I get a little queasy in there!  Page 2 is mostly 2 1/8' squares, and I double matted the 2 large focal point pictures.