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I waled to the Scraps store, confident that I could find something to become suction cups on tentacles made out of pool noodles. And have

I do not live in a domicile that allows for spray painting, alas! So when I drove down to Brookings, OR to fetch my cat

Behold, pool noodles carved into tentacles, flourished by my grandson! Now I want to spray-paint them. But foam and spray paint don’t mix — the

In my family, every generation kicks up one wild card and only one. Everyone else is an engineer or in finance or the army —

The journey and accommodation were a lot different from my previous trip to southern Crete 37 years ago. But the magic of swimming the purple-blue

The essential tool for crazy creativity is a hot-glue gun. This is the tool that made Martha Stewart what she is today. With hot glue

Making tentacles for little boys is … constraining. I couldn’t insert wires into the center of the pool noodle, to make them bendable, because a

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