Pier One is shutting down it’s Canadian stores so my daughters and I went in to peruse the “nothing held back” offerings and to bid farewell to one of our all time favourite past times - finding the shelf with the most sparkles, palming them up and the fast walk chasing each other around the store trying to face wash each other with sparkles. There was NEVER a season in Pier One where you couldn’t find SOMETHING all coated in sparkles. Christmas time obviously wins the sparkle ribbon but we never find a season that was sparkle-free so we always left a little more sparkly than we entered.
Anyway, we found these mini cloche domes for a buck a piece (think cake dome, but shrink it down and then stretch it tall so like you could put a rose or something inside it). I let the kids each buy an assortment of them to make crafty gifts or whatever out of them. Thing is, they need some sort of base really so tonight I taught my 10 year old how to measure, prepare art and CAM it for the MPCNC. She did it all including figuring out how to use the same artwork to generate three different styles of bases so we could choose which we thought was the nicest (the groove version won…the leftmost one in the pics).
Pretty awesome watching these little ones grow and learn. Our next project together is designing and building an indoor/outdoor, wireless Arduino weather station. I’ll let her cam those components too!
MPCNC - Bonding Dads and Daughters Since (insert year here)
