Check-In Post February 16th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[m_findlow]

The next generation will be so different to all the ones that came before it, that's for sure. I'll bet they don't have those pre-inked colouring books that you painted with a water brush either. Omg, or, I just remembered, the ones that had the sheets of mosiac stickers that you stuck on the colour ins! God I loved those! And tracing books!
I said to some work colleagues (all about ten years younger than me) that I couldn't understand when they were talking about this so-called famous donut shop (one of them did bring in some of their pretty yummy donuts) that it's open 24 hours. I said who's buying donuts at 3 in the morning and they told me there's actually a queue! Then I told them that when I was their age we had these funny metal things call coins that you used to pay for things... Lol. Millennials...

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, I remember the paint with water ones, but I don't think I ever had the sticker kind. Tracing books though, yes, and dot to dot puzzles, I'd do those for hours, trying to figure out what the picture was before it was finished!

I feel sad for kids who will never know those simple pleasure. These days it's all computer games. They miss out on so much!

[medievalrosalie]

Paint with water ones still exist. I bought some for my grandbabe. I haven't seen tracing books since I was a kid. Lots of parents are starting to restrict screen time in favour of making things, but maybe that's just the people I hang with. We teach kids crafting and old skills. There's nothing cuter than kids making stuff.

[badly_knitted]

That's good to hear. At least some parents are getting more hands-on with their kids and getting them into crafts.

[smallhobbit]

You can still buy the pre-inked colouring books - I bought one for my granddaughter for her 4th birthday (posher than the cheap sort, it was her birthday!). I also bought her a book with little stampers and paint, so you can add certain shapes to the pictures. I thought they'd be great activities for her when her mummy wanted something easy to keep her busy.