Foam
Mustaches
I am
so sorry I haven't blogged in so long; I was in the process of writing a blog
when my computer crashed! I just finally got it back, so now I will try
to catch back up where I left off... I have been doing a lot of things,
but a couple of weeks ago I was asked to make some foam mustaches, and other
foam props for a photo booth a friend of my dad’s wanted to have as entertainment at the
reception after his wedding. Before then,
I hadn't really seen or heard of anything like that before, but it sounded
cool, so I quickly set to work making them. I can tell you, though these
may look easy to make, it took a couple of tries for me to figure out how to
cut out them correctly. First of all,
the foam I was using was about a half an inch thick, and couldn't be cut very
well with the x-acto knife he had given me to work with. Regular scissors kept getting stuck when I
tried to use them, and leaving jagged edges.
My dad went out to his tools and found a pair of sheet metal cutters, and they worked great! They probably sell some kind of
knife or scissors that work for super thick foam, but I didn’t have them, so I
used what my dad had found instead, and it worked really well. Our friend gave me a couple links of blogs to
look at, and the one I found most useful was www.tiffanykelley.com/photography/diy-mustaches-photo-booth-prop, the only problem that
I had with this one, was when I printed her mustache template, the mustaches
where super small and in the corner of the paper, so I just used her designs
and re-drew them to make them the size I wanted. I would have tried to make this as a guide
for you to make them yourself, but in all the craziness, I just made them as
fast as I could, without thinking, of taking any pictures or anything else until
they were finished. If you want to make
these for something, like a wedding, birthday, anniversary, family reunion, or
some other event, you might want to use the link I gave you to get a better
idea of how to make these. If you do
make them I would love to know how they worked for you!
I was so busy trying to get these done so fast, I forgot to take pictures of my making these mustaches, but here is after I was done with them.
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