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Addiction leads to great things...

As I have said before I am behind the 8 ball most of the time. I knew of Pinterest, but wasn't doing anything about it. I don't need one more thing to keep me at my computer. Well, I finally gave in and requested an invite.

...Not sure why you need an invite, but oh-well...

HOLY SHIT!!! I am soooo addicted. I have to pry myself away, and the weird thing is, I did this anyway. I just dragged photos off into folders or printed out the images and pasted them into my sketchbook. (This is one of those why didn't I think of this things)

It not only makes me realize that I have no time for anything and that I have a severe case of ADHD. My brain is just going everywhere, from home ideas to cool design inspiration to fun things for the kids to do, to cooking, to travel destinations, to...overload!

I did make time to get the kids involved in a melting crayon activity I saw. We have the typical coffee can full of broken deranged looking crayons that makes me groan every time it hits the floor.

The craft also gave me a reason to buy an easter egg mold pan : )

Here is the website that the craft is listed at:
http://fivewhites.blogspot.com/2010/12/craft-10-yes-i-procrastinate.html

And here are my pictures from it with some helpful hints I found out along the way.

First thing. Unless you have older kids, just sit in front of your favorite movie and take the time to tear off all the wrappers from the crayons. I didn't think we were going to get to the melting cause my kids were frustrated with pulling the wrappers off. And Kadence eats the wrapper off, which is no good. Plus I hate picking up wet paper. Eww, yuck.


I was trying to be creative with the placement of the colors in the mold but don't do that, the best ones that came out were the happ-hazard crayon laying that my kids did.


They do melt fast so keeping an eye on them is a good idea, I think it took about 10 minutes total. They kids enjoyed watching them melt, seeing the colors swirl together as they shifted.


yes, this was a pj day.

Being careful when you pull the pan out is an understatement. Unless you want melted wax everywhere, seriously, take it slow when pulling them out.


They look so cool! but they don't look so glistening once they dry.


This was my favorite, although it didn't look like this once it dried. They only take 5-10 minutes to dry. Once they are dry take a knife or e-xacto to "pop" them out of the pan. Even though the pan is sprayed with non-stick spray, you still have to pop them out, but they come out clean. And they look absolutely amazing and cool and it was so fun to color with them!



Although Kadence did think they were something to eat and took a big bite out of one.

Another thing, why do you need kids to do this? no reason, just think how cool it would be to take notes with one of these crayons in a meeting. I would do it...

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