This is an uncommonly personal post, but I just had to share it because it cracks me up. Clever Nesting should have a warning posted somewhere that reads: “If you let people know you can make anything out of anything else, you will be asked to make  strange things when you do not have the time.”

Case in point: We were getting ready to walk out the door to give my girls who are almost 5 and almost 3 a bike riding lesson. As we shuffled to the door my older daughter Olivia insisted that I make a bike helmet for her baby doll in case it falls out of her bike basket. Of course, I made one.

I used some cardboard from my packaging material stash and made a half tube with by cutting a rectangle the length of the baby doll’s forehead to back of the head measurement and about four inches wide. Then I curled it over a metal can into the half tube shape. I cut two half circles which fit into the half tube’s curl and taped them in from the back. Liv colored it in and then I covered the outside with packing tape. I made a strap with elastic and we put it on the baby.

She was well protected from a very many falls, and I retained my hero-crafter status in my daughter’s eyes.