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dirt dauber vase

one godawfully ugly pot
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Get your entomologist friend to tell you what dirt daubers (potter wasps) eat and provide them with plenty of food and pottery clay in an enclosure.

Do this a bunch of times until they and their offspring cover the outside of a wax vase with a clay bottom.

Now glaze and fire the resulting pot.

Now for the multicolored construction paper hornet's nest.

nomocrow, Sep 20 2007

Ugly? http://static.zooom...0646_c89a250129.jpg
I've seen much worse than this being sold at craft fairs. [DrCurry, Sep 20 2007]

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       I once saw a bronzed paper wasps' nest. It wouldn't necessarily be godawful ugly.
DrCurry, Sep 20 2007
  

       Make the wax blank closed at the top, and saw off the top when it's done.
21 Quest, Sep 20 2007
  

       If you used this as a receptacle in which to store your glass eye, and the vessel was after all determined to be of some degree of aesthetic merit, could you say: Beauty is in the bee-holder of the eye?
xenzag, Sep 20 2007
  

       xenzag, I haven't laughed so hard in weeks... thanks.
21 Quest, Sep 20 2007
  

       Controlling the process variables(temperature/ pressure/ moisture/ dauber:food ratio/ foodsource/ freespace/ any others?) to yield different results would help solidify the artform.
daseva, Oct 22 2008
  
      
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