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I've got a husband who has absolutely everything and is horribly, impossible to buy for. If he wants something, he gets it ... if you give him something he doesn't want, he throws it away {honest!}. I'm at a serious loss this Father's Day. Until ...

I'm at Walgreen's and spot an easy, peasy craft ... design-a-tie! I couldn't have been more excited {and forgive me if they've been around forever and I'm just discovering now}. I'm thinking 'Genius!' I also saw a craft in a parenting magazine that I was going to have the kids do, so the tie was a bonus to our handmade holiday.

The kids love craft time and take their work seriously {yes, a serious baby crawls on the table to find just the right marker}. Note: this is minus miss {new} teenager who is busy IM'ing with friends ...

The first craft had them coloring paper cubes. I actually had them do one for each of their teachers for a year-end gift too, which gave them each 3 cubes to color. They weren't quite getting the concept, so I grabbed a Snow & Graham cube from my office to help get the point across. {They were quite impressed with 'my' artwork!} Piper took the project literally and copied the S&G cube! What do you think? Maybe they could use a new designer?

Then it was on to the tie. Still can't believe how genius and am excited to have them start drawing on it. I pass it around and they all take turns. At last our Father's Day projects are complete and I can call it a success. That is until I'm folding the tie up to put it back in the box ... I happen to turn over the box and see the directions. What directions? You just color on the tie, right? No, in fact ... it's not that easy. I needed to have the kids color on a piece of paper {said paper already in a ball in the garbage can} and then transfer it via iron to the tie. Who has time for that?!?

I didn't fret too much, as {sadly} I know where the adorable tie's fate lies ...