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Welcome 2012 ... Year of the Dragon. Actually, the Chinese New Year begins January 23, 2012.

Our local Dillon International office is sponsoring a Lunar New Year celebration this year. We will have kids representing Russia, China, Vietnam, India, Guatemala, Korea and Ethiopia.

I am one of the "planners" for the event.

I decided that since we have Lion Dance costumes, we need a Dragon costume too.
The cheapest costume I found online to order was like $1700 .... UH NO !!!!!

So I decided to put my crafty hat on.
I ran the idea past fellow adoptive Mom Laura ... and between the 2 of us ... we came up with a plan for a paper mache and fabric dragon.

Well ... I have been working on the Dragon ever since. With Laura's help, we got the basic head shape glued and masking taped together. My job was to paper mache the thing.

I have had a great time working on this project !!! Laura and I have been pretty creative in the things we used to make this thing.

Right now, I have her painted gold ... as a result I have named the dragon Gilda ... since she is "gilded".

I sewed the body together tonite.

SO EXCITED !!!!
Can't wait to post step by step photos !!!