As I sit here with a cigarette hanging out of my mouth, and the smoke going into my eyes, I wonder. Maybe it's worry. Maybe it's just pondering. What do I want to do?!? I think I am going to write about my newest interest, Shrinky Dinks. I usually stray away from Wikipedia, but I figured you'd get the idea of what they were from that site. Oh and by the way, all of the words in different colors have links. Like the Shrinky Dinks link will go to Wikipedia to give you a description of what I'm talking about, if you don't know. They've been around forever, but some people, like me, never knew about them! Ok back to Shrinky Dinks :)I have not tried them yet. I'm too scared! I bought the inkjet paper that you print images out on, but I'm scared. They say not to have them too dark or that when they shrink they will just look black. I haven't figured out how to change the opacity. I've only tried in Adobe LightRoom and Microsoft Paint. I think I might try PicMonkey. It's a pretty awesome photo editing program that's right on the web. I think if you use Chrome you can have it as an add-on. I use Firefox. Don't ask me why, since it constantly crashes!
Today I tried a new project, and FAILED! We don't have anywhere to put our towels in the bathrooms in our house. So, I saw an awesome little DIY project on Pinterest that I totally thought I could do. Well, seems as if I need help with it. Here is the original picture that I saw. I saved it to my phone without saving it with the Pinterest directions, so if you click on it you won't get directions :(
Here are my directions that I've made from just looking at this. First what you do is get a sturdy picnic basket. I looked at a couple different craft stores in the area and found a wicker basket with small handles at Michaels. I figured for the price I would make it work. I also thought all I would need would be two small nails and some towels! Boy was I wrong! Here is a picture of the basket, and it has other stuff I bought in it too. I don't have any of just the basket.
So I found my two nails and a hammer, got my basket and headed for the bathroom. Well, the first nail went through the wicker and into the wall good. Then I put the hand towel in and the whole thing fell to the floor. So I put the other nail in, and it still fell to the floor. I threw up my hands and said forget it! I'll just have Jeff do it. But then this little light went off in my head and I said, "NO! I am going to do this myself!"
Jeff came home and I told him what I wanted to do and asked what I would need to do it. He went and collected the screws and screwdriver for me. He found the stud for me to screw the nail into. So here I go! I screwed the screw in sideways and got fed up again and said "Here you do it. I can't do it." He said oh no. You're going to do it. So I took the screw out, got the basket and screwed the basket into the wall. It stayed!!!!! I noticed that I was going to have to make something to hold up the bottom though or else the towels would fall right out. So tomorrow he's going to make me something at work. Here's a picture of what it looks like so far. You can see how the bottom is flimsy.
That's it for now. Now that I've looked over my first blog I can tell that I didn't write too much on Shrinky Dinks! I will write more once I do them, I think. We'll see how it goes.
Thank you readers for reading this book I have written! I didn't notice how much I wrote!
Have a great morning/afternoon/evening/night/or whatever it is where you are. It is 1:35am here in the armpit of Washington state :)
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