Servo - July 2008

Sami as a baby (left). Sami now (right).

fun that the ones already living in the outside world possess. He’s always been like this — inventing things since he was in grade school. He really can't help it.

Many of these creations came together in 2005 to make an awesome Halloween Haunt that the neighborhood still talks about. Unfortunately, it was made at the expense of my one beautifully decorated room — the dining room. My vintage cherry Queen Anne dining set, hutch, and my grandmother's antique desk had to take shelter in my bedroom. The stained glass chandelier was removed, black plastic sheeting was stapled onto my gorgeous crimson walls, and voilá! One scary spider’s lair was created. Like I said, it was fab — award-winning, even! But just last weekend, I found another staple in the ceiling, holding just a scrap of spider webbing.

The accoutrement that currently grace my dining room include two human-sized robots/ sculptures, the coffin guy, Bob — who, at roughly six feet in height — is also human-sized, a Stargate Defender machine, a trashcan zombie, and an evil spider-con-trolled robot. My living room set includes a former motorized wheelchair base, turned mobile platform for an in-process “boogie bot,” one of the Robo Spin-Art machines, and a supply of ping pong balls for the Ping Pong Printer. Rather than reflecting my daydreaming interest in a Better Homes & Gardens living space, our house now sports a look that was once described by a friend as looking like Godzilla swallowed a RadioShack and then threw up. There’s a part of me that wishes my home could revert to the “normal” decorator dream it started to become. But then I look at all the fun we’ve had making and showing off these things, teaching our children to design and build, and getting to meet like-minded people, and it makes the “clutter” worth the sacrifice. SV

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