Tech Table Thursday, November 21, 2013
November 21, 2013
Justin: Welcome to MPA’s Tech Table. I’m Justin.
Diana: And I’m Diana.
Justin: And we’re your hosts. We’ll be serving up a heaping spoonful of all things tech.
Diana: We promise: it’ll be easy to digest. Hello.
Justin: Hello, Diana. It’s Thursday here at the Tech Table.
Diana: We have different themes on Thursday.
Justin: Yeah, it’s Theme Thursday and since it’s the holiday season we’ll talk about Thanksgiving decorations.
Diana: Ah. It’s is a good time to do that; we’ve got another week yet.
Justin: I don’t know what you need to decorate for Thanksgiving.
Diana: Just to feel festive.
Justin: I always feel festive. You give me a turkey and I’m happy. That’s pretty much what it’s about. But okay. I’m sure you have some really creative, cute, fun things to do.
Diana: I was looking up some kids craft ideas. Now I don’t have kids yet.
Justin: Neither do I.
Diana: But I do like doing kids crafts myself. It’s on my level.
Justin: Our engineer’s cracking up. I love it. Our engineer’s cracking up.
Diana: And I’m ignoring him.
Justin: You’re ignoring… but yeah, we don’t have kids but there are great fun things for kids to do.
Diana: I’m not the most crafty person in the world. I mean, I enjoy it and I’m actually decent at it but I just don’t do it that often. Anyway, enough about me. One of the first things that came into my head when I was thinking about Thanksgiving crafts was back in the day, I don’t know if you did this Justin, where you traced your hand and the tracing around the thumb part you made that the neck and head of the turkey. So you’d color it in and then your fingers were the tail feathers. You remember doing that? Then you just color it in however you want. Markers, crayons. What was your choice?
Justin: Usually I used crayons I think. I was a crayon guy. But I liked the big box of crayons.
Diana: Oh, 64. Or even bigger.
Justin: I mean, if I could have got Mom to buy 96 one. Do they go to 128 or something these days?
Diana: Yeah, I don’t know for sure but they make them…and then you’ve got the built in sharpener.
Justin: That was cool. I used to sharpen it just to get the shavings though. I just thought it was fun. I know. This is why my mom didn’t buy me the big box of crayons.
Diana: You ruined your crayons.
Justin: Moving on.
Diana: Moving on. We always like to incorporate tech here so there’s a website, HGTV, which I don’t know if you watch that network, if you have cable, but it’s one of my favorites.
Justin: Home and Garden Television, right? HGTV.
Diana: So if you go there and do a basic search there’s one here that’s through ‘Handmade Crafts’ and then ‘Thanksgiving Kids Crafts’ and then they have pictures for everything. There’s a really cool one I saw; it’s like a place holder, place card if you’re going to have seating that’s essentially assigned. You just have simple little elements like a clear plastic cup and fill it with either malted milk balls or maybe chocolate covered espresso beans. Those are good, right? Or raisins. They kind of look like maybe they could be those little raisins. Then put a little picture of a turkey face. I know.
Justin: They’re cute though. I’m looking at it. It’s cute.
Diana: It is cute. Then cut out some feather shapes from some construction paper and write the name for whoever is going to sit there.
Justin: That’s the turkey tail.
Diana: That’s the turkey tail. Put that on the back.
Justin: Is that what you call it?
Diana: I think so. Feathers.
Justin: Tail feathers, probably.
Diana: I’m sure someone out there knows and they can write in and let us know.
Justin: We didn’t raise…we had chickens on the farm but I did not have turkeys.
Diana: Not turkeys?
Justin: Nope. No turkeys.
Diana: So that’s a placeholder. There are some really good other little crafts. Paper straw necklaces, paper leaf centrepieces with branches from the yard. Cut the paper leaves and then paste on the ends of the twigs and put it in a vase.
Justin: That’s cool. So that’s HGTV dot com. So some interesting decorating ideas. Excellent. Well, thank you Diana for sharing that with us. Until next time.
Diana: Take care.
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Justin: And thanks for listening.
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