Ass Piñata

As you may recall, a couple years ago I made a Boob Piñata for my sister's bachelorette party. Well a couple of my good friends are getting married next week and they had their bachelor and bachelorette parties last weekend. He's kind of an ass-guy so she asked me to make an ass piñata for his party.

Ideally we were gonna get a fake arm or something to hit it with because that is just hilarious.

Here's the finished product:

That's a real thong.

Unfortunately, since this was my second piñata I thought I was hot shit and decided I knew better than the instructable and tried to change things up. Boy was I wrong.

Everything worked out ok in the end, but there were a few issues. So here's some tips and some things not to do when making a piñata.

First off here's the base of the piñata:

It's a lot more tape and paper than the last one. That caused some issues later in the process so I'd suggest always trying for more balloons and less tape. Because of the final shape of the piñata I'm not sure how I would have made that work, but just keep that in mind.

I live in Hawaii where it can be pretty humid and I've now learned that I definitely need help from a fan when drying papier-mâché. When I opened up the piñata it was still slightly wet inside even though it was dry on the outside.

One other problem that I didn't figure out until my last layer was that my starch had settled so most of my layers were more watery than starchy. Which explains why it wasn't hardening like it should have. So, make sure you shake the liquid starch well before using it.

Another small issue was that the string I had was too thin. It definitely didn't seem like it would last too long so I told them not to hang it up for long.

This biggest issue that I had was totally my fault. I jumped the gun on opening it up and stuffing it. I was thinking by opening it before the final couple layers I'd be able to secure the closer so much better. What I didn't think through was that then it would be soaking wet and heavy while drying the last layers.

Because of the added weight it toppled and landed in such a way that the ass cheeks became indented. I woke up to this the morning of the party and had a slight meltdown. I had to cut it open and pop out the cheeks. Then cover up the creases and reseal up the opening.

All in all it turned out ok. It looked great but it was easier than it should have been to open up.

So lesson learned...follow the damn instructions.

Boob Pinata

I've done a terrible job of blogging this year. Sorry about that, I've been busy.

To make up for it here's what I did this week for my lesbian sister's bachelorette party: a boob pinata. It was by request.

It's been a long time since I've done Paper Mache, but it's not exactly a tricky skill. I followed this instructable. It had a lot of good tips - especially the jar lid thing, genius - and though I strayed from a few of them (I let it dry for way less than 24 hours between sets of layers - I didn't have a lot of time) it turned out great.

When designing my boob pinata I did a little google image research and found that most boob pinatas ended up looking like bulging pink eyeballs. So I decided it would need some context so I planned on doing more of a bust (lol) sans head.

My first attempt at making the inner frame didn't work out. I tried a cereal box for the shoulders/chest and paper to make a neck, with two balloons for the boobs. It didn't work out and I accidentally popped the balloons while trying to adjust things. So I decided to use just (well majority) balloons like she did in the very helpful instructable.

I had bought several bags of balloons since I didn't know what I'd need. I had 12" balloons, 8-9" balloons and a bag of a random assortment of other shaped balloons. I used two 12" balloons for the boobs, and 3 long skinny balloons from the assortment for the chest, and two small balloons from the assortment for the shoulders.

Then I just followed the instructable. I did two layers of newspaper at a time over a day and a half (Thursday night, Friday morning, Friday night).

I did figure out a good trick. While doing multiple layers at a time it was often hard to tell where I'd already gone. Especially on the second layer when everything was wet. So I started alternating layers with ads - that are very colorful - and articles - that are only black and white. That way I could tell where I still needed to go on the layer I was working on.

I added nipples during the second set of paper mache-ing. I just bunched up some newspaper and used some strips to hold them in place.

I did a last layer (Saturday morning) with just white paper since I would be covering it with tissue paper a la decoupage and didn't want the newsprint to show through. (I didn't take a picture of that).

I couldn't find tissue paper in a skin tone, so I did two layers of peach (sorry, no picture of that either). I did the peach layers right after the white layer. Since I was doing decoupage I just put the dry tissue paper right on the wet white layer, then went over it after with a 1/3 Elmer's glue, 2/3 water mixture that I applied with a large paint brush.

After the peach layer dried (Saturday afternoon) I added two layers of a kinda off-white tissue paper, then added nipples (they are a bit brighter than I wanted them to be, but oh well.

When adding the white layer it looked like she had a weird skin disease, but it turned out pretty awesome.

The party was Saturday night. I used a fan to speed up the drying process, and occasionally a hair dryer for wetter spots.

I cut a door in her back between the peach layers and the off white layers and taped it up and added some extra white strips for support.

We filled her with little plastic bottles of booze and Hershey's kisses.

I was worried that since we had sped up the process so much - and only done 7 rather than the recommended 8 layers - that she would break immediately, but she held up pretty well. It took 6 of us to finally break it, and the winning hit was done without a blindfold since we were pretty much done.

The boobs themselves only dented and the final break happened in the chest, so they get to keep the boobs:

It was pretty awesome all around.

I also make a pin the piercing on the nipple game, but that's just a little too risque to post a picture of. Sorry, lol.