Hi Angela and art and crafters. For caterpiller, I cannot, but would need to find someone to thread a needle and cotton and pull it through each pompom and if i have to get someone else to do the making i would feel that buying them was pointless, i liked your ideas of characters and caterpillers and maybe spiders with the pipe cleaners for the grandchildren might try glueing them together, oh my there is going to be a messy me in the process lol, some of these pompoms are bigger than a tennis ball to some being the size of a marble, assorted sizes and colours, your character sounds funny, might let my grandchildren have them to make when they are here, get them into the art and craft making and keep the ones that i wanted from the sets for the three d cards, like the three d fairies, hearts, ribbons, teddies, parcels, lables etcetera. it is three fifty nine, regenerated, you are asleep, i have sorted all the things i bought today in piles, opened all the plastic bags and had a few big plastic containers that some of them came in, i have put all the pompoms and round things in the big sweet jar, the furry big and small pipe cleaners and long things in the next size down sweet jar, all the alphabet and numbers in one side of a large plastic chest with handle and the other side the plastic, felt and rubber shapes, this chest is for my cards, the smaller chest i put the wooden and plastic ice lolly sticks and the plastic thin and thick straws and the wooden and plastic skewers, this chest has a lift out shelf with sections and i put the sequins, jewels in each part, the canvasses are on one shelf, card on another, paintbrushes, bottles of glue, pvc, on another and all the other packets of whatever they are on another shelf, waiting for my order to come to see if any more containers, then once in correct containers i can voice lable the containers with pen friend, that writing was hard, kept going to shelves to feel what i have, oh my if only you knew, my carer and daughter helped me today to buy, we went in the expensive one, where they are courteous and clamp me down and help me inside and outside my home. i bought a wooden chest that has metal clasps, open the lid, the lid becomes an easel and inside is paintbrushes, palette etcetera and it has two drawers full of oil paint tubes this cost thirty four pounds for small and forty four pounds for large from argos, malcolm helped me with choices, i always ask his advice and so i bought large as it is something i am going to be doing lot of, hence the canvasses i bought and yes you join in, the scariest part for me is going to be the turps or paintbrush cleaner, may have to do an expensive throw away brushes after use, i don't want to do this, still looking on the internet for alternative safe cleaner, then going to put all the paints in different open containers and voice lable the container red or green or whatever colour is in the container. the water colours you have, you could paint the sky blue, then while still wet and where you want the clouds, dab the shape of a cloud with a cotton cloth, so that the sky is blue and the clouds are what you dabbed off, this writing is bad and hard to describe, any ways leave to dry, to let you know where you are on the picture, use tact tiles, my living coordinator made me a tact tile map to the mansion restaurant, i miss those people who run it, they were the nicest people, i am gabbling again, malcolm calls it side tracked. next part of your email says wikki sticks and clay, please tell me more, i do not know this and will look on internet until you wake up and describe, describing tires my brain, head fast, thats why i have left this email up and rested and come back to it numerous times, i want to write emails like everyone else do they can write lots to each other, i forget fast and cannot keep up with everyone, i can write one or two, but internet i would be good for someone who needed something, i wish i could go to work and be of use to someone out there, these are my normal early hours prayers. and what is air drying please. -----Original Message----- From: angela page - Email Address: craftymonty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent On: 29/03/2012 20:55 Sent To: vanessa, GUIDE CHAT - Email Address: qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx, guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: In Reply To: [guide.chat] In Reply To: [guide.chat] 1 art and craft hi vanessa wow you did get a lot of stuff,i am sure you will be able to craft you know don't give up give it a go you will love it. As for the pompoms you could make a caterpiller or say have a big pompom for a body and a small pompom for a head some foam shape ear's, feet googly eye's make a charicter? I used to draw cartoons before my sight went and a few months before my sight went i planned to have a go at doing pianting from my photo's i had took but never had the chance to give it a go,i was intrested in what you said about oil paint's i have never used those before would you mind if i had a go with oils as well? The last christmas that i had my sight mum and dad bought me a desktop easel and some acrilic paint's and watercolour paint's but like i said never got to use them boo hoo. Have you tryed those wikki sticks i love those. what about modeling with clay air drying clay you could maybe paint it then? whatever you make,paint enjoy yourself. lot's of love Angela and woof from monty