Ha!

I recently discovered that my computer has a paint program on it (part of Appleworks, which I've only used for word processing before). It's an Apple program and although it has a different name it works just like the old Paint program on the Mac Classic that my family had when I was 12. I used to love that program--I'd spend hours playing with it and I was actually pretty good at drawing with a mouse. I'm completely out of practice now, and my laptop has no mouse so I drew the ideas here with my trackpad--not easy! It looks like I did it with my right hand if it had been drawn on paper (I'm a southpaw). But it was a trip down memory lane and kind of fun so I'll put it up anyway.....

I want to build the larvae moderately large. I was thinking that paper mache might be the best medium--I could link a succession on little water balloons for the bubbly body and put my paper and goo over them. I've not done paper mache in even longer than I've tried to draw anything on a computer, but I mostly recall what to do. I think. Then I'm thinking I'll put the LED light thingy into it on the body just behind the head, mostly because I made the damn thing so I may as well do something with it. I also want to make a smaller model of the fly--probably out of Fimo clay. I'll put together a couple of eggs as well, and I'll have to play around with materials to get a transparent "membrane". Then I'll want to put the three bits together for a "life cycle of" sort of display. But I don't want it to look like a third grade diorama....I'll have to fuss with it a bit.

--The Wombat