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Hotels book to 110%

When you book a hotel through external website, you are not the hotel's priority.
Ever been shortchaged on service at a restaurant where you availed groupon discount.

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Ruminated

Who wouldnt be proud of that?

Studies in sleep

We have many pillow cases in our house

new

We have many old clothes

may be we can make some soft pillows

But husband says they need to be shred

before stuffing

Do you watch Letterman?

Zeitgeber

Long ago we used to sleep twice a night

When I stayed up beyond bed time studying, my father would ask me to wake up in the morning and study the remaining. I would list all I had to study and ask him to wake me up. In the morning, miraculously I didnt have to study any of the list.
artifiicial light and breast cancer
Multiple master bedrooms- trend

scienceseeker

Food poetry

Butter

Description poems:
The fish
A display of mackerel

The Fish by Billy Collins

Upcycling gifts

Danny Seo

Plastic spray

spray adhesive

ASU history in pictures

Its hard to imagine Tempe with only farmlands and few buildings even with the photographs. Cars were parked around Memorial Union.

Copy, kill, anew

A while ago, I read that in China, copying is seen as flattering the creator.

Induced obsolescence
Why recipes are not copyright protected?
salmon cornet
edible paper

The book says that Letterman accepts jokes. But no email in sight.

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Planning games for a birthday party

2 Pack – Origami Paper Kit Sea & North Pole Animals, 30 Pieces of Origami Paper, Create 12 Different Animals, Instruction Book Included for Teenager, Adult and Intermediate and Advanced – Origami Kit

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When my friends say they are having a birthday party for kids. the next question I ask is if they have games for kids. I was at a birthday party where there were games - transferring M&M from one bowl to another using a straw. Sharks out of water is a similar game. While drawing the shark, I thought why not raw all the animals in the sea. I  came across a book

While spending some time with neighbor kids, I realised that their timepass is telling jokes. I realised I didnt know any that they would like. Especially when their joke was typified by a ' I was just joking' at the end.

Animal jokes from Scott Allen and a way to use card stock teamed to form a joke book where one of the folds had a joke from the book. The top fold can hold your name and the rest of the folds are free for more jokes from the kid or others and decorations or pictures of the joked animals and persons.

Face painting seems like fun for everyone. I took some paint pencils. Kids wanted helicopter, aeroplane, spiderman (copied this from a color book), spider, flower, butterfly, jaguar (I didnt). Soe grown up kids didnt want anything until I interested them in pirate painting and the jokes. One of them shared one she knew

Why can a fish weigh itself?

It has its own scales

I also was interested in origami. I tried a crane but failed at step 11 of step 19 when it didnt get symmetrical wings.  I moved to simpler cat, dog, fox, chick.
Pin the donkey's tail seems to be a classic. And then there were patch the pirate's eye and pin the shiny nose on the clown. When I came across Fukuwarai, I made a pig missing eyes and nose.

how to make pyramid pop up

Plastic and glue from milk and vinegar

Another use of paper clip

chewing gum

As a high school student, I would chew gum in the morning waiting for the school bus thinking I would typify the aawara.
In Ingenius, author Tina Seelig talks about Tim hurson's Third third where when you think up of uses of an object, your pressed for later ideas are better. In an assignmenet to come up with uses of chewing gum, I was doing research on the ones already known to mankind. Chiclets is a product of our childhood time.
Retrieving valuables stuck in the drain, says Reader's Digest collection of

I had a snack from last nights return gifts and I realised it was packed in a tiny wax paper bag. Grease resistant. 

Bubble favors

Martha Stewart's Handmade Holiday crafts

One day at the parking, I saw a

I didnt know what it was.

I now know it is bubble favors.

Last easter, the chew program had a section on how to make colourful eggs from fabrics and herbs.

felt fortune cookies
Sail that adds the sea texture to a table. My parents got a homewarming gift - a night lamp in a metal sail boat.
Bird ornaments

Playing with paper

Helen Hiebert

Playful learning

A female black swallow tail, with its hind wings held close and down at a slight angle - the front wings span out like a mushroom - Symmetry

A spider web drawn on a paper plate. The symmetric pair of legs each rest concentrically out. Build-a-word set3

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