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Day 302 – Adding a face to the nesting bears…

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Day 302 – Taking quality photos of projects is a challenge. The iPhone is a mediocre camera in artificial light late at night. So I replaced last night’s photo with this composite of photos taken outside on this overcast day. Imperfect, but much better. I’m still working on the bears – the faces at least. I’m playing with a few accessories like bows, glasses, and binky. I’d like the accessories to be changeable rather than fixed, but that may add too much complexity to the toy. It may be best to stick with the basic concept of nesting, closures, and numbers 1-5.

Foldschool’s genius DIY furniture…

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We all know that the most affordable furniture is self-made (time discounted of course.) Foldschool.com offers free patterns and instructions to make three different pieces of kid’s furniture – a chair, rocker, and stool. Using standard sheets of corrugated cardboard, you cut, fold, and glue to create a pint-sized chair, stool or rocker. Despite their size, they are sturdy enough to hold the average adult. Personally I love the natural craft-brown, but you and your child could paint it or cover it in decoupage, or otherwise decorate it in any number of ways.
Now I am just waiting for Foldschool to come up with a design for a little table… Anyone?…