happy 4th straws

well, in a few weeks, 

red, white and boom day will be here.

it's ALL over the blog world.

so i better get in on the picture too.

why not?

i have a gajillion straws i just stare at so i better put them to use.

so here's what i did with them and how you can play too:

did you figure this out yet?

maybe after these next few steps?

you'll see in a sec why it's important to leave room at the top when you glue your pieces together.

ok so here's what i came up with:

put them all together, they spell m-o-t-h-e-r! 

(oops! wrong holiday!)

let's get serious now and bring them out to enjoy.

i filled them up with some cool soda from world market.

i didn't know if the drinks would be too sweet or too surgary when i bought them. but even if it tasted rank, the bottles were so cool it didn't matter.

hope you make these easy peasy straws for 

your next firework shebang.

just figure out how you want the letters or symbols and use pieces of straws and glue happily away on the upper part of the straw.

don't forget to leave room when you glue the pieces on! 

for drinking purposes as i said before. see?

nothing like a cool drink on a cool summer night with 

a cool straw eh?