This is the very first post from me and my roommates. We have always been dedicated crafters, but never really recorded our adventures. We have finally decided that the time has come. So without further ado, our very first craft: We have always collected our bottle caps with the intention of doing something crafty, but we never really had enough, nor any ideas that were good enough. This weekend we finally decided to take the plunge and do something with the caps. We bounced around a TON of ideas. We talked about everything from bottle cap curtains to recreating a bottle cap Mona Lisa. We eventually landed on a scene from Mario. As soon as it was brought up we knew it was the answer to all of our bottle cap dreams. While we knew that Mario was the perfect way to honor all of the beer that we had drunk, we also knew that we did not have nearly enough caps for it to happen. So we were faced with two options: Go into full alcoholic mode (which none of us particularly fancied) or go begging for caps. We opted for the second choice and so we got in the car and went to various restaurants and bars asking for donations. We ended up learning a few valuable pieces of information on this trip: 1. Family restaurants are the best (bennigans, applebees, ruby tuesday.) The bars were much less likely to give us the time of day 2. Just walk in and say that you are working on an art project and that you need bottle caps and ask politely if they have any you could use 3. Bottle caps smell horrible After everything we ended up with about 1000 bottle caps of various colors. We let them soak in soapy water overnight, then rinsed them off in the morning. We dried them by laying them out on paper towel for a few hours. This got them clean enough to work with and really helped to clear out the smell. The next step was by far the worst. Sorting them all out into piles by color. Some of the caps have a few different colors, just use your judgement. The next step was to block out our picture. We just found a good picture of mario off of google and eyeballed the rest. From here it's a little harder to see, but it gave us a good idea of what needed to be done. To make him permanent we just bought some foam board and hot glued the caps on one at a time. After we finished Mario, we decided the next step would be the question mark brick. This part was a little trickier, as in the game the box is the exact same dimensions as Mario himself. We decided to go smaller for the box, center it, and hope no one notices (no one has.) Our mario was 16 caps across at his widest point, and the box was 10x10. We ended up using the bottom side of miller lite caps as they had an almost exact match to the real color. We used the scraps from Mario's foam board to create this guy. For the coin we hot glued yellow and gold caps to push-pins and just put them in the wall in a coin shape. We ended up with a ton of leftover caps, so we decided to add in a little bush and a blue pipe (we had so much blue). We used the same basic plan to make those, we just googled a picture of a pipe from Mario and then marked it out. The pipe was kind of tricky and we had to use some silver instead of light blue, but it turned out well in the end. (We straightened it out as we glued) And voila! A wall of Mario in beer bottle caps! This probably has little context anywhere outside of a college apartment, but hey, it's still one of my favorite projects ever. Well, our first post is now over, so until next time you can all enjoy this picture of our final product.

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