Eitech Solar Powered Toy Review

Eitech Solar Model

Eit­ech is a toy com­pany based in Ger­many that spe­cial­izes in steel con­struc­tion and mor­tar build­ing sets for kids.  They have kits for ages 4 on up.  The con­struc­tion mate­ri­als are brick and mor­tar or steel.  The kits for younger chil­dren are larger and enable the new model builder to get a feel for con­struc­tion.  The more advanced mod­els make a wide vari­ety of mod­els from houses to trans­porta­tion vehicles.

Eit­ech Solar Model

The kit I received was for three dif­fer­ent solar pow­ered mod­els.  I had the choice to make either a heli­copter, air­plane or a swamp boat.  I chose to make the heli­copter because I thought the kids would like it best.  The pro­peller has a solar panel that turns when it’s in the sun­light.  This pro­vided no end of enter­tain­ment for the kids.

The kits come sorted effi­ciently.  Pieces were sorted in dif­fer­ent com­part­ments to make find­ing them easy. 

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We’ve been bombed

Library Bench

One of my favorite things is the unex­pected.  Find­ing things inter­est­ing you don’t expect to see in com­mon places.  It’s easy to seek out inter­est­ing things but the unex­pected brings a bit of sur­prise to life.  It’s espe­cially intrigu­ing when it’s art­work I can relate to, like say knitting.

We were on a bike ride when I stopped to get a breath after climb­ing a bru­tal hill with 100 pounds of twins and trailer on the back of my bike.  When I looked up, there was my first knit bomb.  It was so cool it brought a smile to my tired brain.

Knit bomb on the bike trail

Shortly after see­ing this there was an inter­view in the local paper with local knit bombers.  It seems there is a tree on the same bike trail they are work­ing on.  It’s a long trail so we haven’t found it yet but I’m

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You’re Knitting Me”

As you may know I love knit­ting.  I haven’t done much of it lately but when I d get to knit I love it.  When I saw this clip I just had to share it because as much as I love knit­ting I love Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks. This is from the Larry Crowne Movie.

Put a Little Umbrella in Your Drink

Today’s post is about another Blo­gette who makes my blog­ging life more inter­est­ing.  Lesli is great at give­aways and reviews.  She comes up with some great prod­ucts.  Her reviews on Etsy always make me want to by jew­elry which is very dan­ger­ous.  I would need a big­ger jew­elry box.  I love her take on blog­ging and life.

Def­i­nitely check out her cur­rent give­away from Learn­ing Link Tech­nolo­gies.  It’s a $600 value.

Put A Lit­tle Umbrella In Your Drink? What’s that all about?

I always try to be opti­mistic and well “put a lit­tle umbrella in my drink”. It is a metaphor for my take on easy peasy ways to make your life more glam­orous and lovely with­out being a gazil­lion­aire sip­ping a pina colada on a beach. You may just be sip­ping on a Vit­a­min Water or a sweet tea in your liv­ing room {my per­sonal faves}. Add a lit­tle umbrella, you will

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Crochet afghan

Texture

I fin­ished my first cro­chet project.  I am truly a knit­ter at heart, which was rein­forced by this project.  I took it on because I wanted a quick project to give my cousins for their first baby due June 1.  The baby was over­due and it seems I fin­ished the project the same evening he made his entrance into the world.

In gen­eral it went well.  The pat­tern wasn’t com­pli­cated.  I learned it quickly and before I knew it the main part of the blan­ket was com­plete.  I laid it out and real­ized some­thing had gone wrong.  The begin­ning edge was longer than the final edge.  Some­how I had dropped more than 10 stitches over the course of the blanket.

It helped me to real­ize a fun­da­men­tal dif­fer­ence between knit and cro­chet.  With cro­chet you have to be more dili­gent about count­ing your stitches on EVERY row.  When knit­ting it is

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