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Day 91 - Hey. What's up? Oh, thank goodness it's Thursday. You know it's been a "swim upstream" week when Thursday feels like Friday. While last week was a week of failures, this week feels like everything needs a push forward. Pushing forward includes the project I started 3 days ago which took three days longer to create than planned.

As I mentioned a few posts back, we are getting ready to throw a birthday bash in a few weeks. The project mentioned above that needed a good, long push was a piñata for the "Go Fish" theme party. Making the piñata in itself is a "swim upstream" project. The process seems pretty fun but after a few days of tissue paper and glue, things started to look like a bunch of sticky chickens and the contents of a UPS truck just rolled around my work space. When things started to look a little crazy, I looked up the cost of a number piñata {affiliate} on Amazon. A nice piñata can be purchased for $15.99. So, it seems downright crazy to even attempt to create one's own piñata.

However, driving myself crazy with cardboard is my speciality. Over the years, I have create an array of cardboard projects that included a cabinet shaped like Monet's water lilies that had to hold 200 pounds, a mostly recycled kids play oven and a life sized gingerbread house that could be personally decorated. Making each project out of cardboard was fun, economical and made me learn things about myself, like don't use a box cutter at 3:00 in the morning. Enough of me yammering on. Let's get to today's project.

Todays, project is to make something out of a old cardboard box for someone else. Grab a box and think of the possibilities! Maybe it's a tent for the kids, a joke couch for your roommate or a house for the cat? Here are a few items that will come in handy when you make the cardboard creation:

imagination
time
patience
scissors
kraft paper tape {affiliate}
a pencil
notebook
markers, colored paper or tissue paper

Here is the "Go Fish" piñata. Not my best piñata but I think the 3 year old birthday boy is going to give it a couple of whacks and be happy as a clam.