I’m always doing crafts at work or with my nieces, and after sharing a couple of crafts last year, I though it would be cute to share this one as well.
Do you love tea and have friends who love tea? I do and sending them a cute little tea card is a lot of fun, and something adults or kids can enjoy making too.
Supplies:
Colorful Paper (Scrapbook Paper works best)
Glue
Scissors
A Teabag
Pen or markers (optional)
Directions:
Print out the template.
Cut it out and decorate it, or use the template to cut the teapot out of a piece of scrapbook paper.
Glue the pocket on to the teapot, but only on the bottom and side edges. Leave the top edge alone as you want to be able to place the teabag in the pocket.
Write your note on the back.
Place teabag in pocket.
Give away to your tea-riffic friend or family member.
How many of you out there are artists or crafters? Hands up.
Well as all artists or crafters will tell you, when we are at work things can get messy.
From splattered aprons…
To residue under our fingernails and dyed skin.
Not to mention burns from hot glue guns, kilns, etc.
Well the experience I had the other day was quite different then I’ve ever had.
So this month at work we are all about space; astronauts, aliens, the sun, planets, etc.
So the other day our theme was the moon. We pretended to be walking on it, read some adorable books: Moon Rope by Lois Ehle, Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes, and Happy Birthday Moon by Frank Asch (all some of my favorites).
After, it was time for our craft in which we were making moon rocks.
I was following the recipe the Crafty Chicks gave out, but things didn’t go exactly as expected.
So the recipe was drier than I expected. We kept trying to make the balls but they weren’t sticking together.
But never fear. I am a prime tortilla and pie dough maker, so I know exactly what to do in this situation, add more water.
So I knead it all together like making pie or tortillas and it comes out great. Except that now my hands are dyed a very dark green.
Yes, the food coloring I used to dye the rocks came off on my hands, like the Crafting Chicks said it would, but I was not prepared for how much.
My hands were super dark green. And then when I went to wash the, it wouldn’t come off.
I tried as much as I could, but they were too stained. Guess I should’ve worn gloves.
The kids all said I looked like an alien.
I told them, maybe I am an alien and my human makeup came off…
But they knew I was just joking. Although it did make me want to go out and say “Klaatu barada nikto” like in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
But there is a limited demographic that will understand what I’m saying. That is what happens when you are an old soul.
It still was weird walking around with green hands. I kept getting all these strange looks from people as they were trying to figure out why my hands looked like that.
What I wore today wasn’t anything too special. On Tuesdays I have to follow certain parameters. During my first job I work with children ranging from 0-5, so I need to wear something comfortable that I can move in as I will be playing with them; along with doing crafts and setting up the room.
My second job they keep the rooms at below freezing, so I have to make sure whatever I am wearing will cover my body and keep me warm.
This is what it feels like.
So today I wore jeans, a white shirt; but pumped it up with a brown, three-quarters sleeve, striped jacket. I unfortunately have a baby face, and was using the jacket to class and age the outfit up. Problems only those with a baby face have.
And I topped it off with these cute knee-high brown boots I bought off Amazon for $13. They are hot and were a fantastic price!
And that’s it!
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So this episode of Psych is a parody of Friday the 13th, hence the Tuesday the 17th. I thought that since we don’t have a Friday the 13th or a Tuesday the 17th, so I thought it would be awesome to have this on Friday the 17th, so its a combination of both.
So for those of you who aren’t Psych fans, the series is about a guy, Shawn Spencer, who pretends to be a psychic and works with the Santa Barbara Police Department. His BFF, Burton “Gus” Guster, helps him out. He works with Head detective Carlton Lassiter and junior detective Juliet O’Hara.
*Spolier Alert*
So the episode starts off with Shawn and Gus in their preteens at summer camp. They are being picked up by Shawn’s dad, and Shawn is pissed. He is mad at for Gus choosing Jason as a partner over him for the piñata contest. (They picked the name Jason in reference to the boy and later killer, Jason Voorhees.) As we transition to the present we get a the theme song from Friday the 13th series and a creepy view of Shawn’s piñata, Rick Astley, stuck under the water.
20 years later a girl, Annie (named after the stupid Annie that is killed in the original Friday the 13th) is sitting down watching one of the Friday the 13th films.
Ren Stevens: What? Honey, you’re chased by six mutants, and you just decided to take a shower?
She decides to go off, when the phone rings like When a Stranger Calls.
But its just her friends and she tells them she is feeling sick and going to stay home. All of a sudden she is attacked from behind!!!
Back at the Psych building, Shawn and Gus find Shawn’s old summer camp piñata hanging outside their building. Jason did it as a joke as he came to ask the two to help them. Jason is reopening the summer camp this upcoming Friday, but one of his counselors, Annie, is missing. Shawn doesn’t want to return, but Gus convinces him to go back there.
There the two meet Billy (named after Billy in Scream), the jock and fitness counselor; Clive, the nerd and the water instructor; and Sissy, the damsel in distress in charge of arts and crafts. They start investigating, when Jason starts acting weird. He keeps speaking strange and walking around with a dummy.
They start breaking up into twos and singles, which angers Shawn as everyone is breaking the horror film rules. Never split up!
While they go off into the woods, Billy gets taken by the killer.
They all meet up again, at 6:00 minus Billy. Sissy shows Gus and Shawn the laundry room; in which they discover Annie’s pjs, covered in blood.
Shawn gets freaked out and calls Juliet O’Hara from the SBPD to come down and check things out. She gets everyone to stay inside the cabin. When Jason leaves, Shawn chases after him. As he is running and looking for him, he notices the laundry room going again. He goes inside and finds Annie’s strangled body. After that, a man in a potato bag (like that in Butterfinger the 13th) chases after him. Shawn screams and runs away.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only to be caught by the killer!
But all is not what it seems. Shawn figures out that Jason is behind it all and that it is merely a camp created to scare people. The counselors are actors. People pay to come and get scared out of their minds. It’s like living a horror movie, except you know you will survive in the end.
So everyone goes back to the cabin and celebrates the “rehearsal” of the event.
Everything is great until Shawn spots a dead body in the pond.
Victim #1
They all pull him out and discover that it is the creepy janitor. There is a huge storm that starts up, causing no to be able to leave. Or come to them.
All have to wait until it blows over. They decide to play strip cribbage, as stupid as the strip monopoly they play in Friday the 13th.
Well I don’t make out alive. Must have been too much strip monopoly.
Billy ends up being the one who looses all his clothes. And you know what that means…..Yep let the bodies hit the floor.
After the janitor, Annie is killed and then Billy when he goes to check the breaker after the lights go out.
Shawn figures out that it is Clive and goes after Billy, finding his dead body. Juliet chases Annie down and discovers that she is dead too. They go looking for Clive and find him fighting with Gus. One gets knocked into the pool and Shawn jumps into the pool thinking it was Gus. It’s not, it’s Clive!!!
AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clive tries to attack Shawn, letting him know that the reason he is doing so is because his father died at this camp and he wanted to get revenge.
Very similar to the orginal Friday the 13th film
Luckily Juliet manages to shoot him before he can harm Shawn.
The episode ends with Shawn, Gus, and Juliet looking off into the distance. Thinking about the horror they’ve witnessed.
You know how the original Friday the 13th ended, with Jason coming out of the water? Well, they parodied that too, except with Rock Astley.
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