“It's good to be well-rounded.”
Flat Stanley* #quote
If you ever feel like spicing up your life with a little variety
here's a little trick: next time you want to say “put a sock in it”
you can instead say, “put a sandal in it”.
Improvise-A-Bear
Little Anne's grandmother sewed many different marvelous things for
her shop. She also made things for her family. Little Anne had a
teddy bear her grandmother gave her for her birthday one year. Anne
admired her grandmother's skill, and one year she got the idea in her
head to make her own bear. But she decided to do it on her own.
Thing was she really didn't know how. She'd only caught glimpses of
grandma making them. But she thought she could figure it out. It
couldn't be too complicated to at least make one...right?
She began with many supplies she secretly pilfered from her
grandmother. Two blue and green sheets since she couldn't find
anything else on a shelf she could reach. She did manage to get red
thread and needle her grandma left out along with some scissors.
She started to fold the two sheets on top of each other making a
vague sausage shape. She cut it them into some smaller pieces. She
then tried to thread it together. At this point Little Anne, through
poking herself a few times, realized she had no idea how to sew. So
she went and got the stapler. With this and more cutting she managed
to make a better bear shape.
She then remembered she needed to stuff it. She however did not have
any stuffing. So she grabbed what she could from the house that could
possibly work. A few marbles, a dollar bill, some paper, newspaper,
an old rag were some of the more pleasant items that went into the
bear. Fortunately she did have the sense not to pick anything that
would rot.
Eventually her grandmother found Little Anne. The child had
completed the bear. Stapled together and pumped with glue to keep its
shape. The grandmother simply smiled.
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