| Projects like this make life magic for little kids. I don't have the time/skill/patience for something of this scale, but I love doing little projects that make life magic for other people. So far I have created multiple kids gaming tables. I made a lego play table that had storage drawers underneath and stuck big baseboards on the top. I made quite a few kids playtables using model railroad stuff like grass mats, trees, houses, roads and given them to my boy or to the kids of friends. I've converted old radios into custom music players for friends birthdays including birthday greetings on various "radio channels". I converted an old rotary phone into a present for mu mum where you dial a number and hear people tell you their birthday greeting. I made an alien adventure game in the park for my 8 year old boys birthday party with a story and sound effects and treasures to find. I created a beach adventure for my boy when he was 6 years old in which he dug up a model sailing ship in the sand which contained a treasure map and a key leading to a little wooden chest wrapped in chains and padlocked and full of costume jewellery and trinkets. My boy is now 14 years old and the current project is to utilise his interest in robotics to convert toys to robots with the objective of raising his self esteem and making him believe he can do amazing things, give him something to show his friends because he did most of the work. The older I get, the more I find that this is in fact all I really want to do - be a modern day Gepetto. It doesn't take much to create magic for other people. |