Proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks . . .






So these are my lanyards that I was mentioning yesterday . . .

Now I haven't made any of these in about 20 years. When we first started at camp on Monday, my girls kept asking me, "When do we get to make lanyards?"

Lanyards? What are those?

When the girls took me to the beehive (our main meeting area) and showed me what they were, it finally occured to me.

Erica showed me how to do a two-string one where you make it twist to the side. Then one of my 14-yr old leadership girls showed me her 3 and 4 string ones. I asked her how she did it and she showed me.

The picture above shows what I completed during camp. When I showed my leadership girl my 4 string one (the one it the blue/glitter/white/clear) on Friday she exclaimed, "Oh my gosh, you just made this one? That the best first-time one I've seen!"

High praise indeed!

So of course the first thing Kid #2 wanted to do today was go to Michael's and buy lanyard string.
While we were at the checkout the lady commented, "I'm so amazed . . . we have sold so much lanyard materials today."

I told her, "That's because Girl Scout camp just ended yesterday."

She replied, "Ah, I knew there had to be a good reason."

So this gives me one more thing to do on the plane ride to Wisconsin.

Oh, and Kid #1 came home safely from BS camp today . . . filthy, smelly, and VERY happy to be home!

Now I'm off to work on more lanyards . . .