Thursday, September 1, 2011

BEGONIAS PART 2: Begonia Float Building Begins!

The Capitola Begonia Festival is fast approaching, and this week the Hammer Family team spent many laborious hours planning and executing the construction of an extremely impressive begonia-covered float. The team has cleverly named themselves Begonias on the Beach (BOB), and is titling the float "Ballet at the Beach".

Ballet at the Beach will be an image of two ballerina feet dancing. The float will be manned with three handsome guys clad in tutus and army boots, the perfect way to complete the dainty ballerina image! The ballerina feet were crafted out of a replica of Quest president Lisa Laviolette's actual feet! The BOB team made a mold out of Lisa's feet and then used extensive measurements, calculations, and computer programming to create an exact 6-foot copy for the float.

The initial design for the Ballet on the Beach.

Casting the foot.

Lisa's foot!

First steps to the creation of the 6-foot tall ballerina version of Lisa's foot.

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