Chair photos

    I decided today to work with the boys on finishing the apolstry on their rocking chair.  I called it art, or maybe shop, maybe life skills?  I talked through how we organized the project a lot, so they’d see one way of keeping track of the project – taking pictures of the chair as old layers came off, so we’d have a reminder of the order of putting new layers on.  It’s sort of craft archeology.
    First step was to find everyone’s safety goggles. I may not work for Dupont anymore, but they are still in my system.  Then there was the "these are tools not weapons" speech.  Actually I consider weapons to be another sort of tool, and when my Dad taught me to shoot, he had lots of safety rules too.  He’d have fit in well at Dupont.
 

   I only had one set of tools, we had to take turns with the tack ripper, the needle nosed pliers (good when the tack heads come off leaving the shank behind, or when only part of a staple came out) the high powered magnet for picking up staples and tacks from the carpet, and later the staple gun, which was a big bummer: only I had big enough hands to depress it.  This led to tears, snack time and run around outside time in quick succession.