GROUND COFFEE
Snatched a paper template, chomped it out of thick chipboard slightly smaller than the actual location, glued it to a scrap of an old sheet made to the template's full size. This way, the fabric, although finished the same as the hard board area, will be able to conform and adjust its size on the fly. After painting the top a rich brown and letting it dry, I coated the whole surface in sections with matte medium and sifted well-dried used coffee grounds into the wet medium. Shaking off the excess between each area. (It gets messy, but all can be swept up clean when done.) Generally, two coats of this grounds groundcover are needed to get a nice soil effect. For the party, I added an additional top layer of petal confetti to the dance floor and hand-glued intact petals and small flowers. I crawled like a bug up onto the middle of the full landscape set to make a brown paper template of the spot I wanted the Final Bug Party to take place, in situ. Had just created a separate modula...
