Shooters

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what to make people for christmas. Usually by now I have a good head start. I finally came up with something inexpensive and possibly a starter for chaos. I'm making marshmallow shooters. I've got a total of 22 to make for my family, my brothers, their families and my parents. Plus 16 for some special friends and their families. Plus 20 if I do John's family. It goes by really quick making them. The slow part is about to begin. I want to paint all of them. I'm seriously looking forward to hearing about the chaos from their use. I absolutely love the idea that I'm teaching my little nieces and nephews that food can also be used as a toy. That and their perfectly clean houses having marshmallows all about.

So a total of 58 shooters shouldn't be a problem. Thanks to my exceptionally messed up math mind. I have always hated math and always will. Anyway I was doing the math everything was good until I skipped a step. For some reason my brain forgot that the pvc poles were 10 ' long and not a 1' long. When I went to the store I had only planned on buying enough to make 10 shooters. BUt thanks to my absentminded brain. I bought more than enough to makes shooters for the whole ward if I wanted to. Okay, not the "whole" ward.

Yesterday a friend asked me to snap a couple pictures of her family. So I did unfortunately getting three kids to cooperate was another story. Out of the hundred that I took there is only one good pic of the family. Here it is:

Ask me sometime how I got it.

I played with the pic a little and ended up with this one that I think looks kinda cool:
It almost looks painted or cartooned. Your going to have to look at the big version to see a difference.