Yesterday afternoon, Noel took off for a gig and I attacked my beach ball.
First I would like to say that it takes quite a lot of air to inflate a 48" beach ball (it ended up being more like 35" diameter when inflated). I spent most of Friday blowing it up, with the help of our roommate's bike pump.
I borrowed the dog pool and made a vat of flour paste, and began work.
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I ripped the cardboard up, soaked it in water, then split it in half and pasted the smooth half on the ball. This was incredibly messy, in part because the weight of the cardboard made the whole thing roll around a lot, and also it was, as usual, windy.
When it was reasonably dry, I put it in the back yard. Any earlier and I would have had a dog glued to it. Today I add another two layers.
