davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

She rocks the pirate look. Pirates make everything better. The hook for Red Seas Under Red Skies (sequel to my favourite book ever: The Lies of Locke Lamora) was how do you improve on The Lies of Locke Lamora? Simple: add pirates!

 Love it! Just add pirates! Pirates make anything better!

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15 January - A Doll A Day 2022:

15 January - Work-in-Progress: Cardboard Benches for Action Figures

My crafting skills have not improved since I was nine years old.

I say in my caption that this is a "work-in-progress," but I don't know what I would do next if I wanted these to look any more "finished." For what I need them for, they may not actually need to look any more finished. I just wish I knew how to make things that looked, y'know, better than this, rather than like something a second-grader would make.

Actually, I should be careful about remarks like the "second grader" thing. Something I learned while teaching school is that kids don't know how to make things anymore. Many of them have not, by age 9 or 10, learned to cut on a line using scissors, or how to glue or tape two pieces of paper together. Schools are so busy teaching "to the standards" that kids are not learning basic motor functions or simple practical skills.

Realistically, then, I can claim that my cardboard cutting and glueing skills, while not any better than they were when I was nine years old, are better than those of many nine year olds of today.

Don't even get me started on using a ruler to measure or even to draw lines. When I was working at a junior high/middle school (grades 7/8 in the States, ages 12 to 14), industry representatives from various companies who made presentations during Career Day stressed that students need to learn to measure using a ruler. They said that almost everybody who graduated from high school required remedial instruction on how to measure using a ruler.

I really go down a mental and emotional rabbit hole when I'm working on "fun" craft projects, which takes a lot of the fun out of fun craft projects.