Making wig stands for the cancer center can get pretty boring, pretty quick.  There’s not a whole lot of variation in the actual turning, so if you’re going to do anything other than “brown and round”, you have to have all that figured out before you start.  That takes imagination, and imagination is a fickle bitch!

After making the padded wig stand, I decided I wanted to do something that added some kind of color and fiber to the project.  My initial attempt was a thin, light pink ribbon, that I thought would be subtle.  As I started to add  the ribbon, though, I realized it was actually elastic and cause a whole host of problems.  It stretched when it wanted to, so the wrappings were very uneven.  It also didn’t like the spray on adhesive I was using to keep it in place, so every so often there’d be this gummy, booger like lump that would show up between the wrappings.  I tore it all off, sanded off the blue, and went back to Hobby Lobby to look for options.  I found pink para-cord that looked like it would be sturdy enough to work with and would hopefully complete the look I was going for.  It wasn’t until AFTER I had the project done that I realized the florescent pink color took all the “subtlety” out of the project.  If there’s a cancer patient out there who’s absolutely bonkers for the color pink, this one would be their first pick…