Marie’s Mum came by today to hang with Tilja, while Marie and I took care of some practicalities around the apartment, she brought ice cream with her.
The ice creams – little waffle boats filled with vanilla ice cream and covered in caramel – came in a cardboard box, which unfolded easlily, and quicky became a test ground for Tilja to play with an IKEA pencil. It didn’t take long for her to drop the pencil and concentrate on eating her lunch while we ate our ice creams, so I picked it up and doodled a bit for her.

The cardboard is quite a fun surface to draw on- it gives and takes in irregular intervals- depending on which direction you move the pencil, and it’s rough – like good sketch paper. Very nice indeed.

When I was done doodling, I tried folding the box back in on itself, so the doodles ended up on the outside- and it looked pretty good. Not perfect, but there is potential there. A customized box for keepsakes?

One more bit of refuse saved from the trash bin!

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