Skittles, This is for You!

Here, Miss Skittles, are the pictures of our Formidable Secret Weapon (FSW for short). The first are of the large version, and after that is the Mini-Formidable Secret Weapon (MFSW for short). The MFSW was developed first, but the official FSW is scarier. Beware, Charles, be very wary!

Please Note: The following pictures may be unsuitable for easily frightened children and those with Triceraphobia.

Our FSW shall make snowmen shake in their big rubber boots, small children and animals flee screaming, and constructors of snow forts will wish they had made them with an army-grade steel core! Behold: The FSW, a.k.a. the TRICERATOPS!!

Look at him!

He's HUGE!

With a big head and sharp horns, he could trample us at any moment, but instead (as we were his creators)...

posed for a picture with us. I'm not allowed to identify anyone in that picture except for me (in the red hat in back) and FSW (and if you can't tell which one he is, you're hopeless!). We built him on the day after Christmas with a bunch of friends.

And here is the MFSW:

Isn't he cute? He'll be scarier when he's bigger, but he's cute right now. :)

Once again, cute!

But still, be scared, all who oppose me or Skittles!
Mr. Charles, is your snow fort made of concrete? Does it have metal rebar in it? Will it survive??? Just wondering.

Have fun with this, Skittles!

~Kiwi da Prehistoric-two-ton-stomping-machine-loving Fruit

Card ideas/VBS next week!

Hello, all you people out there somewhere! What are you doing today? Other than reading my blog, of course. :)

I don't really have anything 'specially interesting planned for today. Probably just more sitting around reading, playing on the computer, and watching TV.

Last night at about 10:30 I was lying there in my bed, trying to sleep, when an interesting Christmas card idea popped into my head. So I, naturally, had to get up and draw it out so I don't lose it in the night and be out of one good card. I fumbled around until I found some paper and a pen, then sat on the corner of my sister's bed and sketched it by the dim light of an across-the-street street lamp. I think that with a bit of polishing up, I could make it into a really good card. And then, if I find at least one more idea that would go with it, I could sell a nice, hand painted set of cards. And then I need to come up with some more to go with the snowman one I did for our family's card last year. What could I do that would go with a snowman? Or should I do four similar snowman cards? The snowman I've got done already is in front of a dark, dark, dark, dusky, grey-blue sky with snowflakes falling. He has a red and green scarf on, and a matching hat. On the snow beside him is a little cardinal. Around it all is a thick golden border.


On Sunday, Rapunzel and I are going up to a friend's house in L---, IL to help out with our old church's VBS program (we moved from there five years ago). It'll be our fourth year in a row helping with VBS. It's been neat watching the kids grow up. The first year I helped with the preschoolers, then spent the last two years with the 1st and 2nd graders, and this year my friend (her name is Miranda) signed me up to work with the 3rd & 4th graders. In 2006 I was run ragged, chasing after the kids. One's middle name must have been Trouble, he was so trying. On the next-to-last day, right at the end while we were standing in the sanctuary singing, I turned around and didn't see Mr. Trouble anywhere, so two of the other leaders and I were searching all over the place trying to find him. It turned out that his mom had come and gotten him, but nobody figured that out until we had been searching for quite a while. There needs to be some kind of check-out system to check out all the kids from 4th grade and down. Last year two of the boys didn't want to wear name tags, and the problem with that was that they look so much alike that it was hard to tell them apart. I have one of their tags, and it's torn, dirty, chewed a little bit, and mutilated! Oh well, I still love doing it! This year I might bring a magic marker and just write the names right on the little boys' foreheads! Hey, that is a good idea....
Does anyone have tips on how to keep name tags on little boys without writing them on their foreheads or threatening them? JK! I don't threaten them unless it's to tell them to 'behave or I'll separate' them.


I'll post again tomorrow or Sunday (if I have the time), and maybe during the week. It depends on things. See y'all later! (wait, X that. Write y'all later!)

~Kiwifruit