About two strips into it, I realized that paper mache doesn't stick very well to metal fence. You have to kind of fold it around the wire back onto itself, then it stays. Once it dries, it sticks wonderfully, but not so much when it's wet. The more you do, the faster it starts to go, because it sticks to itself so nicely.
After I had about one and a half square feet covered, I realized that if I finished it down in the basement, and it hardened, I might not be able to get it out of the basement. Really not wanting this to happen, I went and found my sister, and together, by folding back the ears and squishing it just a little bit, we were able to carry it up the basement steps, into the kitchen, down the hallway, out the front door, down the driveway and into the garage, where I went back to work. All that was necessary because it couldn't make the turn to go out the kitchen door or the door from the basement to the garage.
