I want a fire pit. I know we don't have a ton of friends, but I think just having one is good for us. It will give me a place to stay warm when Larry has people over, it'll give me an excuse to try and be more social. So I pinned 4-6 fire pits, sent the link to john and said, "pick one" he picked one that it is near impossible to find the damn curved edging stones! Thankfully our friends The Romilios had 7 of them, so we're just making the fire pit a combination of 2 fire pits we liked.
Another highly searched item for myself are crafts, particularly crafts that I used to make, and want Larry to know the fun of not having technology to let you use your hands. I know it sounds counter productive me using technology to show him, but they have so many "pony bead keychain patterns" ahhhhh!! Remember making those lizard keychains?! That's what that search result will show! Every single damn keychain us 80s-90s kids made during summer camp.
I also was Gimp champion of the world! (Self proclaimed) I had every color imaginable. I would make lanyards, and key chains and zipper pulls. There wants anything I couldn't make! I had a go-to color combination, black, that weird whitish glow in the dark and pink (also glow in the dark) I called it 2x4 even though it was actually 1x2. Everyone loved when I'd do a swirl twisted one.
I love Pinterest because I can find simplified instruction that Larry can understand, because I'm way too mathematical for most people when it comes to explaining things. I encourage you to embrace the nerd within and go Pinterest search an old craft you loved to do, and share it with your kids, a friend or just your Pinterest board!
There is really nothing better than reliving your childhood. I remember one year my grandmother, Meme, bought all the makings for American flag safety pin brooches. We had the teensiest glass beads, and we had the pattern mapped out, took a few trial and errors but by the 4th we had so many pins we were giving them to anyone who would wear it. Twenty years later, Meme still has hers!
Larry loves perler beads, we make just about everything with them. We don't use them all that much because we have a small dog that would eat the beads, but I think we're buying pony beads this week, because frankly I need a stegosaurus keychain, and so does his teacher!!!
Hope you have a crafty, fun and safe summer!
Manda
Here's Larry with his Komondo dragon project, that he received 100 on. He used cast plaster and paper bags, paper towels, a little felt and some paint. We really had fun shaping and setting everything up, this was not a Pinterest based item, this was 100% imagination, and a book about Komondo dragons. I helped very little and am so incredible proud of the outcome and the final grade. The teacher acknowledged his stand out work and his incredible habitat.
This project probably took 7 hrs from conception to completion.
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