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I had a lot of trouble with this one.  I wasn't very happy with ANY of my ideas.  Well, I could hardly think of anything anyway.  A pop-up house with ghosts was cool, then I remembered that I have zero paper for such things.
It was one of those times of 'meh, can experiment with this ruffly thing, make a theme out of it.'  'well, dangling jelly fish are gonna be a problem, since the thread has to be taught and not touch.'  'maybe get wires, maybe tack them flat to a card....' I ended up sewing them to a hat I had knit, because I couldn't find my blue spray paint to decorate a box.  It's weird.  Gimmicky.  I still got a little giddy when the first LED started blinking.  (Part of that was relief, because redoing all the (-) connections would have made me cry, but mostly "shiny!")
I thought this blog was due at midnight, so pictures will be added weirdly.
Never got around to looking for wires.  I wish I had.  Because I ended up taking a bajillion times as long to make my OWN out of copper tape and scotch tape (need a lining!).  XP  *dead face*
Also worrying about how lame it is and how I was actually gonna pull if off was making me sleep fitfully all week!  (To be fair, I have some other class work that's all hazy too.  But it was mostly this!)  I'm super glad I have a solid plan for this next project.  It will be the life of me.




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