Fun things to do with friends!

Hey Guys!

It’s raining here, which makes me very happy because my workspace is on the top floor and I can hear the rain on the roof.

Yes.

Anyway, a friend and I have put together a list of things to do with your friend(s). Feel free to consult it if you are in need of entertainment.

Fun things to do with friends:

Go to an arcade.

Go to a theme park

Take all the photos

Dance and sing

Pool your resources and do something extra

Exercise...then laugh at your failures

Paint

Draw

Race

Play video games

Place bets on a coin toss

Play trivia...and place bets

Draw portraits of each other

Make food

Make sweets

Craft competition

Pinterest craft competition!

Window shop...then “accidentally” buy stuff

Lip sync battle

Style switch!

Read books

Watch a movie

Watch a super cheesy movie and laugh at it

Hang out at a library...or bookstore

Drive each other to a random place, then judge it on interest, beauty and how funny it is.

Do each other’s makeup.

Do imitations

Play charades  

If you do any of these things, please tell me in the comments below, or share a photo with me on Instagram @lilyingeneral42.

See you next week!

-Lily

Pom-Poms!!

Hey people!!

Today’s post is going to be very fun.

We are going to make……….

POM-POMS!

Yaya!

:)

You will need:

Yarn

A dinner fork

Scissors

Thread the yarn through the middle two tines on the fork. You will want to leave a nice, long tail. Mine is too short here.

Start wrapping the yarn around the tines of the fork.

Keep wrapping! Remember, the more yarn you have the bigger the pom-pom will be.

Once you have wrapped the fork to your satisfaction, take the tail and go up and over the entire bundle.

Flip the fork over to the back. Thread the tail through the two middle tines again. Flip the fork back over.

It should look something like this.

Tie the yarn in a knot and cut the extra yarn.

Take the bundle off the fork and cut the loops in half. DON’T CUT THE LOOPS OFF! YOUR BRIGHT AND HAPPY POM-POM WILL BE REDUCED TO NOTHING BUT SAD, SAD BITS OF YARN. Only cut them in half.

You are halfway there! Now cut the other loops.

Yay! Your pom-pom is done! Now for the fun part: what you can DO with the pom-poms!!

You could glue googly-eyes on to make yourself a little fuzzy friend.

You could glue several together to make yourself a rainbow of fuzzy-ness!

If you make the tails extra long you can use it as a bookmark!

To make the double pom-pom all I did was make a pom-pom like normal except before I took the bundle off the fork I just started making another pom-pom around the first one. Tie it off like you would normally and you are done!

I hope you liked this how-to! I had a lot of fun with it and I think when we finally take down the Christmas decorations I will hang these around the house. Enjoy!

P.S. this is my 20th post! Just thought I'd mention it! :)

A list of Books

Hello Readers!

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How are you? Are you looking for new books to read? Well, look no further, for here is a list of my favorite books!

Or look further, they’re my favorite books, not yours. I’m not your boss.

One last thing: These books are not ordered from least favorite to most favorite or anything like that. I enjoyed them all equally.

Harry Potter:

Okay, so this is a series, not just a book. I get it, but I just can’t pick one to be the best. I’m sure you understand. :)

Finally:

This is one of my all time faves. It’s actually part of a series too, but I don’t quite like the others as much as this one. I just love how clumsy/hilarious this girl is!

(Here I stopped for ten minutes trying to remember what books I had read in my lifetime. And which ones I liked best. Argggghh.)

The Beef Princess of Practical County:

This one is adorable. And a little bit sad. It’s all about how a girl gets to raise some steers, becomes attached to them, then has to sell them. And meanwhile she has to deal with the other things that life has plopped down in front of her, like a crazy/adorable sister and bullies and busy parents. Good read.

Little Town on the Prairie:

I love the Laura Ingalls series soooo much. My books are falling apart at the seams from the love. Again, it’s difficult to choose a favorite, but this one is pretty high on the scale, so I’ll just put it down. Yay for Laura Ingalls!

Roxaboxen:

So this is a picture book. I get it, this one doesn’t belong here, it’s a children’s book etc.

But I felt it deserved some attention. Such a cute little book. And it is not nearly as vicious as the cover looks.

The Sisters Grimm:

Yet another series out of which I couldn’t choose a favorite. They read fairly quickly, so I got through them fairly quickly, but was still very sad when I had to leave the world of the Grimms forever.

No, not really forever. I've re-read a couple of the books already. :D

So there are my favorite books. I hope you look these up at your library and give them a try!

And when you have, please tell me if you like them. I love talking to people who like the same books as me!