We've Got to Stay Away from Construction Paper

My roommate and I have a serious problem. We love dressing up the life-sized K-9 and Dalek (whom we've named Mycroft) that we put outside our dorm room door last October. It was originally for the Halloween Door Decorating Contest; however, it's stayed up because we didn't have the heart to take it down. We've dressed them up for Christmas and Valentine's Day, and now we've done the same for St. Patrick's Day.

We bought this GIANT thing of construction paper at Target waaaay back in October, and we STILL haven't used it all up! (Although we are running low on red, because, I mean, DID YOU SEE THE SIX-FOOT-TALL DALEK WE MADE?!) So we used a lot of green and yellow this time around, because both K-9 and Mycroft got a hat and a chain, along with some shamrocks. In fact, the only thing NOT made of construction paper is the leprechaun on K-9's tail!

And then I figured out a way to make a rainbow to put above our TARDIS door. It's a bit off-center, I think, and a bit squarish, but it still gets the job done. You can tell it's a rainbow, and it really goes with the St. Patrick's Day (and Ireland) theme that we've got going on. We might could've done another beam, but we have time to figure that out if we need another foot of rainbow on each side of the door.

If I'm being perfectly honest, I never thought about dressing up K-9 and Mycroft throughout the year. I didn't think that this whole thing would get so huge. We hadn't planned on putting a K-9 or a Dalek up; they just kinda happened. And we never planned on putting them life-sized, but we found the blueprints, and it just kinda...happened.

But I'm glad it's happened. We've had a lot of fun. We've spent hours upon hours crouched on the tile floor in our dorm room, measuring and drawing and cutting and taping. (Yep, everything's TO-SCALE, with proper measurements and everything. They might look a little funky, but that's because they're a 2D representation of something that's usually shown in 3D.) Everything's done by hand. Construction paper. Scotch tape. Some painter's tape. A pair of scissors. It's taken probably twenty or more hours to put all this stuff together, and we're hoping to keep K-9 and the Dalek and put them up next year (because we're rooming together again!).

I hope I was able to put a little smile on your face today :) We've put a lot of work into our dorm room, and I love having these pictures out there. The ONLY thing that's not hand-measured and designed? The little leprechaun on K-9's tail (close-up to the left). 

Have a great day, y'all!