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5 handmade Mother’s Day gifts for kids to make
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My mom still has a few Mother's Day gifts I made for her back in my childhood, and now that I am a mother myself, I can understand why that macaroni-studded flower pot means so much to her. In a world where we can purchase anything with convenience, ease (and let's face it, very little thought), handmade gifts from our children will stand the test of time. As a former preschool teacher, I know that my students' mothers will cherish some of their handmade masterpieces forever, and others, well, mom may have held on for a few weeks before tossing...
As anyone who grew up collecting baseball cards knows, for every valuable rookie or golden foiled card that one might be lucky enough to find in a pack, there were hundreds of worthless cards featuring players undeserving of a prime slot in a binder...
These duds were often tossed in a shoebox to gather dust, only to be sold off in garage sale down the road. Brothers Beau and Bryan Abbott didn’t discard them. Instead, they would doodle on them, using a sharpie to draw everything from bushy eyebrows and sunglasses to a well-placed pun of a player’s name or a dick joke. Now adults, the Abbott Brothers have turned their childhood hobby into a lucrative career — and are collectively known as the Baseball Card Vandals. Their premise is a ridiculously simple one “Decent jokes on worthless cards” but the sheer silliness and...