Paper Love

So imagine my surprise today when I came into work and there was an oragami heart laying on my keyboard!  Now I know for a fact that this was a project that took my wife several days to learn how to make!  (It was a multiple part piece of the previously mentioned oragami calendar.)

Now I would like to say that it's been a very long time since I had someone been able to leave me something like this and keep it a secret from me.  It was so great to walk into my second day of work and find a little "I love you" in my cubicle.  

Thank you Jamie!

Arts and Crafts with Matt

Today on Arts and Crafts with Matt we made us a super soft work-safe edition of nunchucks. Yes! I now have nunchucks!

Materials used to craft the nunchucks are spare strips of cloth from the blanket Karen made for her car, and paperclips. Thank's to Karen's blanket material the nunchucks are super soft and fuzzy. It's really a very simple design. I don't think I need to go into much detail on its construction.

Matt showed off his nunchuck skills by wacking my apple off the counter. Most impressive! I'm still a nunchuck n00b and will need many hours of practice.

See other crafts made by Matt in my cubicle.

Arts & Crafts with Matt

This week Matt shows us what to do if you're cubical is just too darn bright by building a canopy to go over your office chair. "You have the materials to build it already", Matt says. Our model was made out of paper we took from the recycle bin and some scotch tape. Above is a picture of Matt in the process of putting it together.

This is a little more labor intensive than other crafts Matt has accomplished in my cube before. It is also a lot larger and therefore a lot harder to hide as well. You will want to make sure you have some spare time for this, like your lunch hour.

Here is Matt sipping a cool lemonade in the shade of his completed canopy. Ahhhhh... tastes like craftiness.

See other crafts made by Matt in my cubicle.

Arts & Crafts with Matt

Today Matt shows me how to build "Stop-Sign Headman", the spongebob rival, out of a fruit punch can and used sudoku games from Ron's daily calendar. Matt says, "If you do not have a sudoku calendar, you can just use regular paper". Very helpful tip!

Once completed, you can pose Stop-Sign Headman into different poses as seen above. Note: If you look in the background of the second photo, you can see one of his previous creations.

Check out other crafts Matt has made while sitting in my cube.

Office Supplies Crafting

Matt and I read an article that had instructions on how to make stars our of pop cans. So we took my coke zero can from lunch, printed out star templates from Word, and used our company issued scissors, tape and ruler to make a pair. This is Matt's star, mine came out looking like poo. Like Matt's is the teacher's example and mine is the attempt by the 6 year old student. It's bad. But we had fun and had a good laugh about my retarded looking star.