A Pile of People

When I was at the thrift store a couple of weeks ago... I bought what at first glance looked like a pile of pipe cleaners... This is what I found when I took them out of the bag....

A Great BIG Pile of People

There were 78 pipe cleaner people in total...

Some of my favorites:

(Sparkle guy)

(Fluffy Muscle Man)

(The Twins... I love the colors)

(The Ski Instructor)

(The odds and ends)

I have no idea what these people were made for or why they were discarded... but they are fun to think about... I am not sure what we will do with them... I have thought about taking them apart and reusing the pipe cleaners... but I haven't been able to bring myself to do it...

I Almost Missed Fathers Day

Somehow I wound up thinking Fathers Day was a week later then it actually was, so when Saturday rolled around and I realized it was happening the next day. I kicked into gear. We are on a really tight budget so I wanted to do something that didn't cost anything, but yet said "I love you Daddy."

So here is what we came up with...

Hope loves to paint so she painted him a rock for his desk at work... She cracks me up because she likes to repaint things over and over, so the color is constantly changing... So eventually I stopped her and we let it dry...

She put stickers on it. Then I glued felt on the bottom. I didn't want it to scratch his desk at work.

Every year since Hope was born I have made a print of her foot for Daddy on Father's day... Her foot is getting to be so big. I can't believe how much she has grown.

We baked a brownie... The little chef really believes in sprinkles.

I took pictures of the process and then made a single photo collage at our Kodak Kiosk. (Total cost of picture 32 cents)

All in all, it turned out perfect... It just made me realize how it is the thought that counts...

Summer Crayons

Today we made sea shell crayons out of reclycled crayons. Because we didn't have enough crayons of our own we asked the neighbors if they had any broken crayons they wanted to discard.

They were so easy and fun to make:)