Boredom is the Mother of Invention

To say I'm bored is probably an over-statement. To say that I have a lot more free time than I'm used to is pretty accurate, however. Needless to say, my soaring ambitions of working through a huge list of literature and finishing writing several books have been realized to be...quite insane. My summer now consists of roaming around from project to project in happy bliss. Was that redundant?

It's amazing what you can do with common household items.

Project #1--Tying white buttons onto a red thread to create a very pretty but useless string of buttons. White buttons. I found a plethora of white buttons just lying on the ground and my creative instinct immediately jumped on them. My hoarding instinct immediately forced me to begin picking them up. Once I had got them, I had no clue what to do with them. And one afternoon last week, when I found myself with nothing to do, I began to string them onto a red thread. I'm still figuring out what to do with it.

Project #2--Creating a trash can dedicated to used tissues. Being the eternal optimist, I took advantage of my recent cold to make something creative. I have an empty tissue box and several cough drop wrappers, and I am planning to combine the two to come up with a...well, a tissue box decorated with cough drop wrappers. (if you're looking at me oddly, you're having the same reaction as my mom did). But really! It's perfect for me, because I'm always throwing used tissues on my bedroom floor. Having a trash can (a decorated trash can) just for used tissues would really be helpful.

Project #3--Re-attaching a head to an otherwise lovely rocking-horse. Right now, the headless rocking horse is in my closet. She's this amazing light green, with (hand painted, I believe) roses all over her. Her name is Rosie, obviously. Now that all of us kids have moved past the rocking horse stage, I'm going to put her head back on her and sell her on e-bay for money. =) No, for chocolate.

Yum. Chocolate.

Hugs & Blessings,

Izori