Who thought that melting/fusing beads should become the craft of choice? Why are they everywhere? Because frankly, they drive me bonkers! First of all, yes, it's sort of fun, if you have dexterity. But my 4 y.o.? She spends an hour at the table and gets about 8 beads on the board. And the 6 y.o. will make 10 hearts during that time, but will then insist that I iron them, IMMEDIATELY, and inevitable, someone will knock one over before I get the iron hot and then stupid beads, everywhere.
Not to mention how much I love having the hot iron on the table with the kids....
And I haven't actually purchased any of these, not once. Dumpling got a few kits as presents, someone brought a giant bucket as a hostess present (WTF?) and most recently, we inherited 3.5 buckets and about 24 shapes from my SIL who banished them now that her kids are grown. Oh, and I forget the 3D princess castle kit that BB got for her 4th bday. I've been working on the pieces for that since August, we are nowhere near done.
The hat from yesterday is done, but the rest of my day was spend fusing plastic.
Ryleigh LOVES the pearler beads!!! Someone gave me a huge bucket of them that they got at a garage sale...we just have basic shapes, but I hate to say this, I'm interested in the 3d princess castle kit! haha
Posted by: Stacey T. | November 14, 2009 at 08:37 PM
Funny, I just got a bucket for Cara-Li for Xmas. We have never had this...
Posted by: Susan | November 14, 2009 at 09:21 PM
And how are all those plastic fumes treating you?...
Posted by: Nat | November 14, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Oh, I'm laughing since my girls love these too and I struggle to get them hot enough to melt the darn things. Then, the dog eats all the ones that fall on the floor, which is most of them...and decides two hours later that they don't agree with her tummy. Nice.
Posted by: Perrin | December 02, 2009 at 05:23 PM