Well, hi.
Today, I really wanted to be able to finally share my post about how to paint kitchen cabinets, but good heavens, that post is turning out to be a whole lot of work, and I want to make sure it's right before I publish it (because if someone is going to be brave enough to take on that project, I want to steer them right and not accidentally leave out a step or something.)
But now I've spent all of my allotted blogging time for today working on that, which means now I'm here telling you I don't exactly have a post written for today.
I do have a number of other almost-done-but-not-quite posts in my drafts folder, but they all need things I can't add right now (such as photos, which still need to be taken and it's not light enough for that!)
So for now, I'll leave you with something that is completely irrelevant: a Trojan horse made of Duplos.
Lisey's doing ancient history this year, and her book gives her projects to go along with every section. This time, she was supposed to build a Trojan horse, so she and the other girls came up with this. Totally made me laugh.
Especially when they figured out how to make a trap door in the bottom so that their army of Greeks Japanese erasers could get out.
They really got into this project, and since I took these photos, they've remade the horse a number of times, with later versions becoming more and more authentic*.
*as authentic as one can be when you're building with Duplos
Have a lovely Monday, and I'll see you tomorrow with something slightly more on-topic. 😉
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That's terrific, I love the imagination and dedication. Although it makes me think of the Monty Python version...
PS: Don't think we didn't notice that you wrote a blog post about not having a post.
Oh yeah. And it's not the first time I've done it, either!
True dat. But that's OK.
I think this was completely on topic. Your kids are learning to be frugal and use what they have on hand to complete projects. This is super useful skill wherever and whenever in life you are!
Duplo and Lego, the most ingenious of toys. I'm still not sure I've out grown them.
You are scaring me with all this talk of how hard it is to repaint kitchen cabinets! 🙂 Ours are due for a new paint job this summer and I'm a tad apprehensive .
I love the Trojan horse, what genius to build it out of duplex and put in a trap door.
ahem, Duplos not duplex... I've been spending to much time around the school copier.
Well, it's not that it's hard, in that it's confusing. It's just a lot of manual labor!
Happy Monday! What creative children you have.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is your funniest post ever. I don't recall ever laughing out loud from one of your posts before!
That's a great creation! Had to show intro my husband who is a Lego nerd from way back.
What book are you using? Sounds like it has some good projects in it!
She's using The Mystery of History. It's our first year with it, and it seems to be pretty great, so far. Lisey's staying interested and engaged, so that's a positive sign.
That is way cool.
I love Duplo and Lego, they're such creative toys. When I was a kid my sister and I would make the Lego Melbourne Cup (a horse race that we get a public holiday for) every year.
That's adorable.
I had to make camels out of salt dough one year because we couldn't find any. They were not made scale, I think they were about a quarter as large as the pyramid they had to go next to. Now we find camels everywhere.