Good evening once again my good and faithful Minions! I trust you are well. Tonight I will discuss a few items that are essential to the Scarydad supply list. There are definitely the obvious ones like hammers, saws, and a freezer full of skin. But if you don’t have those things already you might be just a little behind. No, these are some of the things that have proven completely indispensable over the years and have proven their worth by either running out, getting lost, or something so that I notice and terribly miss their presence, or worse, cause projects to remain incomplete until replacements arrive.
So, without further ado, the first Scarydad essentials list:
The company knew what they were talking about when they named Great Stuff. It has literally thousands of uses! For haunting projects possibilities are endless. You can squirt a design (guts, rot, tree bark) directly from the bottle or you can spray it on to something and sculpt it later. And if you must, you can use it to seal gaps between doors and windows. You can’t lose!
This is one that may seem obvious but until it’s Sunday afternoon and you run out of the specific shade of blue that you bought at Hobby Lobby, you won’t appreciate having an ample supply of various colors of acrylic paint. I suggest buying at least two bottles each of your most popular colors just in case.
So last night sprayed a bottle of Great Stuff onto a PVC frame and tonight you intend for it to resemble a zombie gnome before the end of the evening. Time to break out the Dremel Rotary Tool. A Dremel is dozens of tools in one: sander, grinder, drill, router, saw, polisher, sharpener, engraver, just to name a few. I guarantee you that your gnome project will be much easier to do if you wield a Dremel.
I’m not going to say much about these because they are obvious too. But if you think you don’t need angles, rulers, & protractor, then you’ve never tried to draw a 5-pointed star. As tomorrow’s project will illustrate, it’s hard to draw one without these tools.
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Such is the case with my missing glue gun. I actually don’t use one of these too terribly often, but when you need one, there simply is no substitute. And they’re cheap enough that you can easily afford to have a couple laying around in various boxes, you know, in case your Bride decides to get pinteresting.
And now we’ve reached the end of our list with perhaps the most essential element to a successful Scarydad project: Beer.
Yes, beer, with it’s malty hoppy goodness is the fuel that runs this mad workshop. Let’s tip our hats to the hardworking brewers who make it all possible. Mmmmm…. Beer.
