I was asked to drive a wedding couple from the chapel to the reception site this afternoon. Kind of cool, no one's ever asked me to do something like this before. We had talked about incorporating the art car into our own wedding -- either being married at the big art car parade in Houston (the head of the Houston Art Car Klub is a licensed minister), or road tripping to Vegas and going to a drive-in chapel. But it didn't work out for a variety of reasons, and I'm tickled that the car gets to participate in a wedding nonetheless.
So we've been working on the car. I had planned to deal with this over the past couple of weeks, but events beyond my control took me out of the state all last week and threw my schedule for a loop. I couldn't work on the car last week because I was away, and then I had to recover from the late night drive back (don't ask), and then I had to catch up on all the work I had missed because of going away unexpectedly, and here we are.
Yesterday we patched the carpet strips where they had worn off. It turns out it's harder to cut new pieces of carpet to match the old glue marks and fit around the other decorations, than it was to put the original pieces down when there wasn't anything on the car yet. I don't know why this surprised me. We also added a few toys to fill some empty spots & to replace a few that had gotten really gross. A casual observer probably won't notice the difference but it does look nicer to me.
This morning we've been cleaning the inside. Which, wow. The most frequent passenger in my car is my dog, and who knew german shepherd fur could collect like that. After vacuuming I feel like it's clean enough that I can say "sorry about the dog hair" with a straight face.
We're almost done cleaning and I don't have to be at the chapel for a couple of hours. Phew! I hate feeling rushed. Plus we're having friends over for dinner tonight which I haven't even thought about yet.
I have to say, working on the car last night brought back memories. It reminded me of when I first started creating the art car, how fun and exciting that was. There wasn't any burden of upkeep, just the thrill of seeing something new take shape. I'd like to try to recapture that. I've been thinking idly about doing major work on the car for a long time, but the enormity of the job made it seem overwhelming. Maybe I could start with one panel and see how it goes. Just scrape everything off and do something fun and new. If it turned out well that would motivate me to keep going.
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