The latest news to date is that Megan (my younger sister) wishes to make a 3-D barn! Of course the catch is that I will be paying for the supplies and doing the majority of the construction on this project. Ha! We took a trip to our local craft store today and boy was that interesting. We had an allotted time of 30mins in the store to get our items, check out, and make it home on time. Well, that did not happen. It is decided that we should not go to that store in the future unless we have no other plans for that particular day. While there, we picked out a big square for the base of our barn. She will decorate this to her liking. Also, we purchased 3 wooden rectangle shaped boards for the back and side walls of the barn, and 2 more of those sized boards to make a roof for our barn. Megan wanted to put animal pins in the barn to make it more real looking. When we looked closer in the wooden craft section we found these adorable miniature fence. Deciding that those were perfect, we threw 4 packs into the basket! Then, we realized duh! We needed some animals to put in the pins we were going to be making. For the life of me I could not find any little barn animal figurines. After a good 15 minutes of searching, we figured it would probably be a good idea to ask a store sales associate for some help. The thing is, he had not the slightest clue where this item might be specifically. Have no fear though! He pointed us toward the Kids Crafting isle and low and behold we find a tube of assorted barn animals packed neatly into a tube labeled "Down on the Farm". Clever. (: We had all of our items, so we headed for the cash registers to deal out the dough. What's ironic is that the cashier we chose just happened to have grown up on an actual Farm! So, Megan got to hear about milking cows and such at 5 in the morning. Finally, we headed toward the car and got going down the road with all our goods! Now all we have to do is actually put this thing together (: !
Friday, January 14, 2011
Megan's Big Barn!
The latest news to date is that Megan (my younger sister) wishes to make a 3-D barn! Of course the catch is that I will be paying for the supplies and doing the majority of the construction on this project. Ha! We took a trip to our local craft store today and boy was that interesting. We had an allotted time of 30mins in the store to get our items, check out, and make it home on time. Well, that did not happen. It is decided that we should not go to that store in the future unless we have no other plans for that particular day. While there, we picked out a big square for the base of our barn. She will decorate this to her liking. Also, we purchased 3 wooden rectangle shaped boards for the back and side walls of the barn, and 2 more of those sized boards to make a roof for our barn. Megan wanted to put animal pins in the barn to make it more real looking. When we looked closer in the wooden craft section we found these adorable miniature fence. Deciding that those were perfect, we threw 4 packs into the basket! Then, we realized duh! We needed some animals to put in the pins we were going to be making. For the life of me I could not find any little barn animal figurines. After a good 15 minutes of searching, we figured it would probably be a good idea to ask a store sales associate for some help. The thing is, he had not the slightest clue where this item might be specifically. Have no fear though! He pointed us toward the Kids Crafting isle and low and behold we find a tube of assorted barn animals packed neatly into a tube labeled "Down on the Farm". Clever. (: We had all of our items, so we headed for the cash registers to deal out the dough. What's ironic is that the cashier we chose just happened to have grown up on an actual Farm! So, Megan got to hear about milking cows and such at 5 in the morning. Finally, we headed toward the car and got going down the road with all our goods! Now all we have to do is actually put this thing together (: !
