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I picked up Clue Jr. The Case of the Missing Cake at a thriftstore a couple of weeks ago (for $1), and today the girls (who are on summer vacation) and I finally played it. It was a big success – they both liked it and it was neither too boring nor too challenging.
It’s been years since I’ve played Clue (though I also picked up a used set of this at Thriftown), but I imagine the rules for this one are much simpler. Kids do need to know their numbers, but the game is really best suited for kids 5 yo and older, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
One of the things I like about clue is that while some strategy helps, it’s also a game of luck, which means that the younger players are not at too big a disadvantage.
Anyway, if you can pick it up for cheap, make sure to do so.

I just got an older set of the 20 Questions for Kids game at Thriftown (for under $2 – it retails for over $28) and Mika and I was surprised at how enjoyable the game is. Basically, the game has 150 cards, each with the name of a person, place, thing or year. There are 20 clues as to what the item in question is – the quicker you guess, the more you score. The game comes with a playing board, chips and playing pieces – but they’re not that useful when just playing with two people. The fun part, after all, are the questions.
I was quite surprised at how even Mika and I were in our play ability. It was just as easy or hard for me to guess as for her. I love games in which adults don’t have too much of an advantage.

Michaella got the Paint & Peel Window Art Kit for her birthday and so far it’s been a big hit with Camila and I (Mika hasn’t really tried it yet).
It’s a very simple concept. You put a sheet with pictures inside a plastic sheet cover. Then you outline said pictures with black acrylic paint, and once it dries you color inside the lines with colored acrylic paint. After that dries, you carefully remove the pictures from the plastic sheet and you can just put them on the windows. They stick easily and they come out easily.
The kit also comes with some googly eyes that you can paste on the pictures.
The kit works surprisingly well. The decals (to give them a name) are very colorful and the process is fun to make. The one thing that I don’t like is that it came with just one plastic sheet cover – that means that only one kid can use it at the time. I found another regular plastic cover, and we’ll see if it works just as well.
I also don’t know if regular acrylic paint would work – or if this is some kind of special paint. We’ll try it as well and report on the results.

I have never been much of a perfume wearer. Though my mother has gotten me a few from time to time, I have never seen much of a reason to wear them. A big reason for this was probably that none of the perfumes I’d gotten were that pleasing to me.
In the last few weeks, however, I’ve gotten quite a few perfume samples from listia.com, a low-cost auction website. I was surprised to found several perfumes that I really liked. Norell
is one of them.
If I had to describe Norell the first word that would come to me is “powdery”. The second would be “old lady”. This is definitely the type of perfume you’d imagine a woman in her seventies-eighties to wear. It’s completely non-offensive, with no high notes, and yet very pleasant. Surprisingly, I find it very calming. It doesn’t directly remind me of my aunt Gladys, I can’t really remember if she or my grandmother wore a perfume like this, but they very well might have. I thus associate it with old ladies in tailored suits, pumps and perfect make up – the way Gladys looked when she went out to any social engagement.
One thing that I’ve recently realized (about me, at least) is that I like wearing perfume so that I can smell it – not others. And I think I will put on this perfume from time to time when I want to feel all warm and fuzzy.