Mess Project #2 - Something sticky (Not Him Not here)

The previous page was very good fun, and by it's nature collaborative. This one I decided to keep to myself. The ingredients which came most readily to hand were flapjack ingredients, so here's the result:

Image shows an open book with oats all over it. Writing on the page reads "1. Cover this page with something sticky (glue, honey, etc.). 2. Drop a powdery substance onto the page (cocoa, flour, etc.). 3. Blow off excess". There is also a line drawing of a glue pot on the page.

I took the instruction to cover the page literally enough to justify using a knife to spread my squeezy, blobbed-out golden syrup, and totally ignored the "powdery" requirement - after all, this book is about creativity and breaking rules, so I feel justified in a little creativity around the rules on the page. 

Not to mention, if I had left the golden syrup as it was, it could have bled through to other pages. Not a problem in one direction - that page is done - but in the other direction I could have ended up with great difficulty completing my next task. In hindsight I regret this slightly, as the book is in part about letting go - but I can't and won't go back to try and fix it. I don't make any promises about doing better next week, either.

It's a slightly worrying thing, to have a book with oats and golden syrup in it. What if they get all over my bookshelf/book pile/general bedroom space? If it gets too hot will it run? Will it cook and fill the room with delicious flapjacky odours? Probably not that last one; I think that's my hunger talking, time to go eat.

Mess by Not Him.