It’s Election Day! Did you vote?
There was also no school and I was waiting on a phone call from the printer, so we were pretty bound to the house for the day.
So we cracked out the pots and pans. Much music was made.
Category: crafty
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Let the wild rumpus begin!
What happens when you’re cooped up in a house for days on end. You start being crafty just to keep from losing your mind.
Pattern via instructables.com.
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Comic book workshop
I looked down from cleaning up in the loft to see Tom leading a comic book workshop. Everyone was hard at work at their own comic books.
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Free watermelon
I love when Tom has the kids, and I come home to find some fun surprise waiting for me.
Today I pulled up to find Tom, the kids, and Neko’s friend Mary Beth were giving away free watermelon. All four kids crafted this giant slice out of one of the pieces of wood from the tree that came down last month.
Love. It.
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Art show!
Tom and the kids surprised me today with an early morning art show. Excellent watercolor technique by all.
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Still…here…somewhere…
I know I’ve been AWOL for a bit. We’ve been ridiculously busy.
It’s that time of year where we completely toss all sense of reason to the wolves and decide it’s time to help remodel another room at Neko’s school. Well, in this case, two rooms. Which was a beyond a ridiculous idea.
This idea was made even more ridiculous when we accepted a pre-sale for a t-shirt which we thought would sell just a few tees, and then ended up selling 1,200 in a week. Which is awesome, except, oh, crud, weren’t we supposed to be remodeling rooms this week?
This is the first room just after we finished installation. It still needed the stuff brought in, which includes lots of shiny computers with enormous screens.
One room down. One to go. And 1,200 shirts to print and ship.
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The world’s greatest Play-Doh accessory
Tom cracked out the pasta machine while I was at work. But he wasn’t making pasta.
Neko spent hours flattening and slicing and crafting "Chinese rugs". I'm not really sure what the Chinese rug business was about, but after a while she got out the Chinese dress-up clothes and got really serious.
There’s probably some third-world country child labor commentary in there somewhere, but, OOOH! Back to Play-Doh!
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Painting
The kids discovered the extra canvases left over from The Messy Art Party, and they have been going gangbusters creating masterpieces. Even Ellery is getting in on the act.
Clearly, an actual canvas makes the creation of art FEEL different, and they seem to treat it with more reverence. Now if I can just figure out how to hang them…
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Breakfast faces
Everyone is really getting into breakfast faces around here. Exhibit curated by Tom.
