Draft of poster
Purple box is the examples of doors, and the blue box is the QR tag
Suggestions ?
Two quick questions… Do the kids get to take the doors home with them? If so, can they put the doors where ever they want?
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Do the kids get to take the doors home with them? [/quote]
Yes absolutely, I don’t want them !
Damn kids and their love of glitter.
Yes, I give them recommendations on where to put them. The slides have three pages of “Good idea”, “Bad idea” images of placements for the door.
If they want their door on the website map, they need to put it in a location that is publicly accessible (like GEOCatching). I have also partnered with a bunch of public gardens (10) around Vancouver that are willing to have doors put up in their gardens. I also partnered with some neighbourhood houses (3) that also want them on their building. So there will be plenty of “Good” places to put the doors.
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Sounds awesome. Will they have the option to show the location of their door on the website if they put it somewhere other than a suggested place? Maybe something like dropping a pin on a map and entering a code? I can see many of the folks wanting to put them right outside their house. That might be too much work though.
A bit of rewording… Take it or leave it 
Magical Door Workshop
As we all know, tiny doors are portals to magical places! They can lead one to gnomes, fairies, and many other types of magical creatures. Come join us in creating your own mini magical door to share with your friends. Once you’re done, you can take it home and have your very own portal to the netherworld. Where will your door lead?
All required materials will be provided, however you are encouraged to bring any magical, shiny, spacey or crafty additions to make your magical door even more special.
Magical Door Map
Once complete, you may choose to install your door in one of our special places within Mount Pleasant. Secret treasures will lie behind these doors and clues will lead from one door to the next until you find them all! A secret map can be downloaded at doors.abluestar.com
Where: Vancouver Hackspace (VHS) 1715 Cook st
When: Sunday July 5th, 2015, 2pm-5pm
Cost: FREE! Space is limited to 25 people.
Please register at doors.abluestar.com
Kids of all ages - from 1 to 110 are welcome.
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** Disclaimer: Doors may not contain actual secret treasures.
Also, “Donations gratefully accepted”?
I am not allowed to accept donations or payments for this workshop.
Its part of the rules of the grant. I can ask for donations to the space while at the space but I don’t think its appropriate to put it on the poster.
The coding for this is already done. I was hoping that people would make their own doors outside of this workshop and put them on the map too. The website will have information on how to add peoples own doors to the system (creating a QR code with instructions on a sticker and pasting it inside the door)
Code is the easy part, Physical stuff is hard
Ah, gotcha.
Posted the event for the Magic door workshop and sold out in 24 hours.
The hinges for the Magic door workshop came in the mail today. They are 1/10 of the size I wanted. I ordered 2.1 cm and got 2.1 mm.
https://instagram.com/p/3y7_jpg5c3/?taken-by=funvill
The hinges took 6 weeks for delivery so I don’t have time to reorder them. So I am going to have to pay retail price for hinges locally for the workshop and try to resell these hinges to recover the cost.
re: hinges
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I ordered a 2nd set of hinges off of Amazon. It looks like they got lost in “MISSISSAUGA, ON, CANADA”
https://www.packagetrackr.com/track/RS274168689NL
This is the 2nd order
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00QK6QMQY
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00QK6QQD8?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00
Sigh…
It’s stuck in Customs, you should call Canada Post to find out why. Use the RS* number as reference. This link will provide you better tracking details: Canada Post - Track a package by tracking number / Postes Canada - Repérer un colis au moyen du numéro de repérage
It has been sent Registered so it cannot get “lost”.
I suspect that you are correct. I just worried that it wont get here in time.
Does anyone have some spare art supplies to donate to the fairy/magic door workshop.
Specifically (but not limited to) I am looking for the following.
- Water proof paint - Acrylic, Not spray paint
- Paint brushes of all sizes
- Buttons and things to glue onto the front of the door.
- Stickers
- Glue and glue sticks
- LARGE sparkles (no fine dust sparkles)
I plan to start cutting the doors this week so i can prime them all before the kids arrive in two weeks. I have a gallon of primer (Gesso) that I am planning on using.
I can come pick them up or you can leave them in the drop box at VHS.
Thank you !
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I cut a bunch of the test doors tonight to see what they look like. Progress is being made
Hinges came in today. They look great for this project.
https://instagram.com/p/5F0gPNA5T4/?taken-by=funvill
The workshop was a big success, Everyone left happy and we had a few parents interested in becoming VHS members. I have started on the social media and it should continue for the rest of the week. Hopefully it will result in some positive press. I will be doing a post-mortem after the social media campaign is done.
A post with pictures from the event.
More pictures can be found here
Website is up and running with a map of some of the installed doors.
http://doors.abluestar.com/
Thank you @ninetynein for the huge help running this workshop, designing door templates and keep me from running away from the hoards of children.
Thank you @Janet for making a test door, that I used as the “Bad/Naughty” door in the workshop tutorial.
Thank you Kim, Teresa, and Barb for help with the kids at the workshop.
Thank you Lori for giving me the idea for this workshop and helping me with writing the grant.
Thank you everyone that was a part of this project and came down to make some doors.
Group picture
https://instagram.com/p/5WImxCA5Xs/?taken-by=funvill
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