King Me

Back in the day, when I was single, or maybe even married, but definitely before I had children, I worked at Porter's, a popular craft store in Rexburg.  It's where I met Ryan....his mom trained me, and set me up with her son, and the rest is history!

The job was AMAZING.  I loved it!  Besides learning many different crafty things, I got to demonstrate how to use the products by DOING crafts....can you say DREAM JOB?!

On occasion, when items weren't moving off the shelves fast enough, I was asked to 'make it work' and figure out a way to lure the customers in, by making something awesome.

So when wooden trays were a little stagnant, I had this brilliant idea:  Checkerboard!

It was a labor of love, and I put too much time into it to sell it to the many crafters who just wanted to buy the floor model instead of making their own, but I held out....long enough (3 year) to take it with me when I moved on in life.

A few days ago, I pulled it out and taught Tanner and Taylor, one-on-one, how to play checkers.  Then I let them have at it.  :)

They played for HOURS!!!!!  Brings back all the "King Me" memories of my childhood.