On Things to Do While You're at Home: Sew and Sow

In my case, this involves radishes!

Felt ones for wearing...

...and real ones for eating! I ordered a variety pack of radish seeds, so it will be interesting to find out what I planted!

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On Things to Do While You're at Home: Dust

If you've let the dust accumulate, now might be a good time to address it, so your Walrus and Carpenter don't call in seven maids with seven feather dusters to try to have cleared (the Carpenter doubts this would do any good and has shed a bitter tear). 

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On Things to Do While You're at Home: Brush Up on an Impractical Skill

With extra time on one's hands, now is the perfect time to brush up on some of those impractical skill sets for which you rarely have any use. 

For example, building a house of cards, which, outside of perhaps building one's coordination and patience, for most of us has no practical application in daily life. It simply comes with the satisfaction of having made something flat and flimsy stand up in a triangular shape and/or the frustration of having it collapse at a moment's notice including as you are trying to build it.

I am not much for building card houses, but my Alice In Wonderland Card Game Set was sitting there and it gave me something to do. As you can see I cheated and decided to make mine on carpet where it's easier to stabilize rather than on a table.

If you're going to make one, why not a few more for a balanced trio? (With the added advantage that the smaller ones are easier to make!)

After I was done staring at these for a bit, I happily told them "You're nothing but a pack of cards!" knocked them down and put them back in their box. 

Anyone else brushing up on skill sets that aren't exactly practical?

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On Things to Do While You're At Home: Make Collage Cards

Starting a new series today about things to do while you're stuck at home as I am in a state with a stay at home directive. These posts will probably vary between being more practical in nature to being rather silly dependent on my mood.  

Having been horribly stressed over the past week (which has in turn aggravated certain health problems), I haven't been able to focus on much of anything for an extended period of time. However, I did find that I could make collage cards. 

While I was planning to do a painted newspaper collage, I ended up deciding to use just decorative paper. Though I have a rather large stockpile of it, for some reason I don't use it very often and this seemed like a good opportunity to use it; so if you're a crafter and looking for something to do with those scraps of decorative paper that have been piling up, consider making a couple of cards with them!

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