String Art & the Future of Lip Balm Reviews

What is string art? It's a leftover craft from the 70's that is not only fun but enables you to make beautiful pictures out of wood; felt (or such); nails and string. I toyed with it briefly in the 70's but being young I really didn't do too much with it. Now I'm having fun with it all over again. Once you have your board all set up (felt; velveteen or paint applied) you then hammer in the nails according to the pattern. Then it's just a matter of wrapping the string around the nails, again, according to the pattern. I have a few here at home waiting to be done (a 4"x6" Peacock; a 9"x 12"vase with flowers in it and a fairly large Santa head [I forget the size]). I have a few boats and a large peacock on the way plus a couple of pattern books. A friend gave me a pattern for Rudolph so I'm looking forward to that one too. I just finished my 4"x6" Parakeet (I still think it looks more like a parrot) and here it is:

 

Pretty soon I'm going to give my opinion on lip balms. I've always had a hard time finding ones I like so I'm hoping maybe this'll help someone. I'll have SPF ones with different degrees of SPF and ones without SPF. As much as I hate to talk bad about something there are a few that I'll have to mention just because I disliked them so much one way or another. Pretty much, though, I want to stay on the positive sides of things. It'll all be in my honest opinion so maybe you'll be different but at least it'll give you a place to start. Summer horror story regarding lips and balms some other time.

Eventually I will get to other products; I just can't buy a lot of things at once.

Short today. My small string art Peacock is calling me and I have to check and see when the Olympics start. Unfortunately I forget his name but God Bless the family of the luger (is that right? Luger..well you know what I mean). It's not worth risking the lives of these athletes just so we, as an audience, are more thrilled and entertained. Lets keep them safe above all else.