Somethings Are Better Left Untried

I saw this idea for making a derby style paper hat in a past issue of "Somerset Life", my new favorite book-a-zine.

Theirs looked cute and sounded very easy.

Mine looks stupid and was not easy at all.

And, I had forgotten just how black one's hands turn when messing around with newsprint.

To think that I had such high hopes for these! In my crazy grandma mind I thought Jonge and Famke would be wild about them. They were not.

Jonge has a fur dress-up hat that he loves to wear. He keeps a bouncy Elmo ball in it, in the event that he is outside and decides that he has need of a bouncy ball.

THGGM would not take him for a walk wearing that hat.

When I suggested one of my lovely newspaper hats THGGM gave me a glare that could be used to sculpt ice.

I think I shall file this idea under "Do not try this at home ever again."

But then again, inverted they could be used as bowls.

Or, Easter baskets even!