Child Labor Laws and Home Business.. Should I be Concerned?

Have you ever wondered if you've ever broken the child labor laws for your state?  Sometimes I do.  You see I have quite a few children to break the laws with…

So let's play a game and figure out which one is not mine… Can you guess?

 

You guessed the Blue-eyed Ginger right?  He's not really a child, but he does ALL KINDS of things for me.. he entertains the monkeys, picks up inventory in far away places.. and loves my lasagna

We have this one.. She's not a child (in age..) 😉  I kid.. I kid.

She's wraps boxes and ships stuff out.  If you don't get your item..

You need to talk to her. (oh.. see that look she's giving the camera?

That's the same one she'll be giving me once she see's this blog post.)

This one.. he's a problem… he thinks he's the "Supervisor" of

the child above… and well the child below.  I like to call him my

pack mule.

(Just in case you were wondering.. the child in this photo has bows

the other one.. He's The Man.)  She looks so sweet.. but she's quite

a hondler, and I just taught her how to write some auctions up…

hopefully this will work out in my favor.

This one.. how can you make this one work?  He's so dang cute.

He just eats cookies and watches the others work.

I'm blogging about all of this child labor stuff because of this photo:

I had #4  hold up this Pottery Barn Blimp.. and  it looks like it's

killing him or something.. Don't tell the state of Kansas I mean Florida.

 

If you wondered… he made it through holding up wire blimps…

His thumbs are A-OK

 

 

What the Heck is THIS? Cast Iron Wood Thing Edition…

I’ve been working on a charity auction for my church.  I walked into our “eBay” office at church and found this thing.  I’ve shown it to a few of the workers (that are busy working on the building)… they had no idea what this is.  So I’m asking you..

It’s cast iron.  The imprint above says “Centralia”

Stands about 7″ tall

Has a wood center.  I don’t think it’s removable.

So.. what the heck is it?

Oh.. and do you know what this thing is?

It says “Miniature Broiler”…. someone said a smelter.. the base is

wood, with a cast iron top and wood handle.   I can’t wait to hear

what these things are..

Weaving.. it’s not just for Weavers

Last year I was looking for a fun craft for my girl scouts to do.  I came across this site that had a cute little coin purse that could be wove  (woven).?.?   We did one coin purse out of regular red heart yarn (poly-blend).  It was cute, but I thought I could make it better.. stronger.. faster.. (name that TV show).

I decided if we did the weaving out of wool, we could felt it and make it into a purse or backpack for the girls.   We collected wool and eyelash yarn and started out to make our backpacks.

Here would be a great place for me to show you photographs of the work we did..  which I don’t have.  This weekend (when we went camping), I made a small bag to hold my external hard drive.

This is right after we felted it.. it’s still wet and kind of misshapen.

This isn’t the actual item I made.. but we wove them on handmade

cardboard looms.  (This was a USED postal box just in case you are

a postal person that is having a hard time breathing right now)

Here’s what it looked like before we felted it, and after I took it off

the loom.  It was about 8×8 here.  After agitating  it in hot hot

water for a few minutes, washing it in dish soap…  then rubbing

it against it’s self… it shrunk to this:

About 5 x4.  I will do a step by step blog on how to do this..

soon.  It’s a really cool project to do with your girl scouts,

daughter or friends.  I love watching it go from nothing.. to

something.

It’s a TO-DO list.. how about doing it?

One day my girl scout troop and I are going to take a photo like this..

  • School the monkeys
  • change all of my store categories for 980 listings.
  • 30 minutes on the Wii
  • Write up eBay Listings
  • Girl Scout meeting
  • Take #3 to dance..
  • emails out for Youth Group and Girl Scouts
  • Dinner: Steak Soup, homemade rolls
  • Chore Charts
  • Figure out BLOGHER.. this site vex’s me..
  • Fix photos for Charity auction
  • blog.. blog.. blog
  • Pick up key

Tabled Items

  1. work on the Cooking Blog
  2. stretch and block my friend’s needlepoint
  3. finish #1’s Coat (make button holes)
  4. make lining for the felted purse #1 gave me
  5. Make About Me page for Charity Auctions **waiting on info
  6. Make template for Charity auction **waiting on info