She keeps insisting she gave them to me, and I know very well she didn't. My mother used to have those, but I suspect she got rid of them when she remarried 13 years ago. When I was in the sixth grade my aunt taught me to knit by having me knit a sweater for Barbie and one for Ken, and a skirt for Midge, all from a kit. I always wanted the wood burning kit and the metal etching sets my male cousins got, but alas. After the comments went viral their stock went up 187%!Įdith, I did the mosaic tile art, too, and paint by number of horses (which my mother actually hung on the wall), and sewing, and potholders (which I sold door-to-door-with limited success), and we had Lincoln logs and an erector set, too. I bet I can still do it handily, too.Įtch a Sketch is made by a company called Ohio Art. Hallie, I also practiced shooting free throws. (I realize saying this makes me sound like Laura Ingalls Wilder.) The issue of course, is: what do you do with crocheted laces made from string after you've given all your friends bracelets? I never figured that out. Oh and fabric arts-I went through a stage where I made crocheted laces using a large wooden spool with nails driven into the top of it. One of the best gifts ever, and I still have it-my three children have all used those pencils for their own art projects. He must have bought out the artists' supply store. I loved drawing with a passion, so much that when I was in my early teens, my dad came home one day with a wooden box filled with colored pencils in every shade imaginable. I used to make the big loopy spirograph outlines and then color in the little slivers in all different colors. Also had a Spirograph, though I wasn't as fond of it-there wasn't much room for your own creativity in there. I liked the Etch-a-Sketch, though I was never very good at drawing actual, you know, pictures with it. Probably something toxic that was banned by the EPA in the 80s. I can literally smell the paints that came in those little plastic containers. JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: Oh, Hallie that paint-by-number picture of "Pinkie" is bringing it all back to me. Can you say NERD? (What I really wanted was model trains, but my brother got those.) Was anyone else a rock hound? I had a box with little compartments for all my rocks and minerals, carefully labeled.
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