god's eyes
 

Y'know, I was going to be all retroactively offended at being brainwashed by my secular camp into making what is surely some obscure Christian religious symbol, but on second thought, I should be more offended that our collective camps' idea of the Eye of God is a couple of cheap-ass splintery popsicle sticks and some hideous low-rent acrylic yarn.

Urgent RECALL!!
 

Half of it's from me.

TM

god's eyes
 

I looked it up and apparently it relates to gods of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Hence the acceptance in your secular camp and my hippie camp.

god's eyes
 

There are secular camps?
Is that like girl scouts? Because I went to a camp that was sponsored by the school I went to (public).

god's eyes
 

Those indigenous peoples of the Americas sure could make some cool shit with popsicle sticks and yarn.

god's eyes
 

At my hippie camp we were required to use sticks that we gathered ourselves in the nearby forest and also sometimes used leather in place of the yarn. I'm just glad they didn't make us kill and skin the animals and then tan the hides and cut them into strips.

Apparently I am so old that hippies weren't universally anti-leather yet.

Time for some SEX talk
 

OK, here are some "toys" you can make at home. Disclaimer this site may or may not be appropriate at work - depends on how good a sense of humor your IT people have.
Basically it is what I said it is - how to "do-it-yourself" with homemade "toys."
Use it at your own risk.
Some are funny.
Some are unusual - makes you wonder who thinks this shit up. The melon-baller for instance.

homemade sex toys

Also, dildo art is clever.

god's eyes
 

At my church-related Ranch Camp, the counselors "taught us a lesson in survival" by providing us each with one beef patty, one onion, one orange, and one cup of bisquick. We were also directed to a fire pit and given one match. We were instructed to "make dinner."

I'm pretty sure I ate the orange and called it a night. But we were supposed to have hollowed out the onion and cooked the beef patty inside it, and hollowed out the orange peel (I'm still not sure if this is even possible) and cook the bisquick in it. We were supposed to have eaten like kings.

Reminds me of the time the seemingly gargantuan counselor decided to do the trust fall off a six foot pole into the caring arms of his 15 third-grade campers. We all backed away and he hit the earth like a load of bricks. That memory jams.

god's eyes
 

Yes, I went to girl scout camp, and it was secular.


And yes I was a girl scout. And before that I was a brownie. Now go ahead and make your jokes.

god's eyes
 

I bet they would have felt bad if one of you ate the raw hamburger and died of e coli. Must have been pre-Jack-in-the-Box incident. I wasn't aware that beef patties were readily available when one was lost in the wild. Seems like a flawed test.

god's eyes
 

Hm. According to this site (http://donnakova.tripod.com/film/starmenubbhc.html) (you have to scroll down) the god's eye symbol is associated with Haight Ashbury and some band (?) I've never heard of. They were celebrating some native american stuff.

It appears that perhaps Christianity has coopted this, as it has so many other pagan items: http://www.christiancrafters.com/craft_godseye.html

For ncs and nfh, here are instructions on how to make a god's eye: http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/godseye.html Note that you could gather sticks in the wood and substitute them for the "craft sticks" that look like popsicle sticks to me. If you use sticks, you can't glue them together which may make the project more difficult. http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/godseye.html

And I ran across Christian commentary on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy while looking up this stuff: http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/article_m...150019,00.html

god's eyes
 

That is a really good point. Bisquick is not found in nature either. Hell, where am I going to find an orange on the great plains? Now I don't believe them that Jesus loves me either.

god's eyes
 

I was a brownie too, leagl. No big deal. Although I do remember having to sing a song about being "glad and gay" though. Maybe that was a Canadian thing.

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Our counselors donated the buffalo carcases that were the by-product of killing and skinning them to get the leather we used at my camp, and then gave a lesson to ABBA and her campmates on how to do the same while they hacked up the buffalo meat to hand out.

god's eyes
 

Big Brother & The Holding Company!

Are you joking or am I just waaaay too old now?

(Bilmore, Wonk, could you pass the geritol)