Mrs Maker's Projects

Boys made Bad Piggies contraption today out of an old wooden box and three broken Alvar Aalto stools... Notice also the small wheels attached to the wooden box. Notice the handbrakes on both sides of the device which, btw, travels on land quite fast!!! Priceless! Bad Piggies is popular puzzle video game developed by Rovio Entertainment.

In downtown Helsinki (Liisankatu 11 D 19) we had a masonry stove (in Finnish kakluuni ) in a building, which was constructed in 1906. In Finland, the masonry stove industry flourished at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. After the First World War, various new heating systems replaced stoves.  One day I decided to cast 3D impressions of some of the figures using mould making and casting materials I bought from a distributor of dental products. Sounds weird, but it was cheaper than getting the materials from an arts and crafts shop. The project was easy and fun.  I ended up making casts, that I used to decorate the surrounding of the ceiling lamp and the space above the windows in the living room.  Adding little paint, the figures looked like they belonged in the room there as they were repeating the figures of the stove.  Dragonflies around the ceiling lamp. The original colour of the stove was ivory, but someone had painted it with a silly brown paint. I aligned and glued figuri