Advent Calendar ~ Day 14!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

(Woo new layout yay!)

 

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?

Well, no. But for years we recycled the wrapping paper in a most effective way: it became the bunny’s Christmas present once we’d unwrapped it.  She came down to open presents with us, and as the paper piled up she’d tear it, chew it, fling it around, and build forts with it.  She also would arrange it into piles and get all pissy if you messed with the pile.  I miss that silly bunny.

 

Things that made me happy today: Playing with sealing wax! Sealing wax is the coolest toy ever. There are bright colors you can mix around and it gets soft and drips and then you wait for the drips to dry and pop them off what they were stuck to, or you use the stamp to seal a letter and make your letter all fancypants, and you can light it on fire!* I even have three different stamps—a quill and ink bottle, a happy sun, and Kokopelli.  (Yes. They put Kokopelli on a sealing wax stamp.) No wonder kids were so fascinated with it in those old songs!

 

Of course, every time you use it you have to tell your mom that she is not, in fact, smelling an electrical fire, but sometimes one must make sacrifices to play with cool toys.

(I wonder if xaandria would let me snag her sealing wax Christmas icon ... I am having way too much fun with these icons.)

 

*We don’t need no stinking glue gun wax around here, thank you very much.

Comments

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

You indicate there is a footnote about lighting things on fire, but there is NO FOOTNOTE. *sadface*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

GREAT SCOTT, you're right! *adds footnote*

And just for you, here's what it sez: We don’t need no stinking glue gun wax around here, thank you very much.

Aren't you glad you checked up on that?

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

*giggling madly* Yes, yes I am!