When we brought him home and really looked at him, Monster got nervous about painting him because it was going to be much more complicated than he thought. The poor little nutcracker sat there and sat there, not even looking at us since it had no face, for weeks. One day, I asked Monster if he wanted me to paint it for him. That made him extremely happy. Monster's favorite color is blue, so he chose the nutcracker to be in two shades of blue (which was great for me since when he wanted to paint it, he had chosen about 6 different colors with lots of detail). Once I really sat down to work on it, it took me about 2 hours. I'm not happy with the cheeks, but I plan to redo those at some point. Monster loves it though, and that's what matters.
While getting back to writing and trying to fit in everything that we did for a month, I forgot about two projects that were accomplished. The first was making a nutcracker for Monster and the second was converting the train table into a Lego table. One afternoon, around the beginning of December, Monster and I were in Hobby Lobby. He found a wooden nutcracker, unpainted, that he really wanted to make. It was 50% off, so it ended up only being $3, so I figured why not. When we brought him home and really looked at him, Monster got nervous about painting him because it was going to be much more complicated than he thought. The poor little nutcracker sat there and sat there, not even looking at us since it had no face, for weeks. One day, I asked Monster if he wanted me to paint it for him. That made him extremely happy. Monster's favorite color is blue, so he chose the nutcracker to be in two shades of blue (which was great for me since when he wanted to paint it, he had chosen about 6 different colors with lots of detail). Once I really sat down to work on it, it took me about 2 hours. I'm not happy with the cheeks, but I plan to redo those at some point. Monster loves it though, and that's what matters. Our second project was converting the train able into a Lego table. Found a pin on what to do. Seemed easy enough. And it was. Our biggest issue was that we didn't want to spend as a much as the woman did who blogged about it. We used 8 - 10 x 10 baseplates. We followed the seam on the train table so it could flip back into a train table if so desired. Monster loves it! We use it for all sorts of building, not just Legos. We got some nice bins at Target to keep under the table for extra Legos and Playmobil stuff.
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