Picture frames to make in minutes

. . . and regret for years to come. And sadly, many of these frames turn out to be kind of a pain in the ass to make. The aptly-named "Number 2" requires you to enlarge your snapshots to 5x7" (not as easy in 1966 as it is now); buy six small frames; spray-paint them; cut and paint a piece of plywood; and nail or glue the smaller frames to the plywood.

Well, anyway. Remember bazaars? The carnival bazaars at your older brother or sister's elementary school? Where your friends always won a goldfish by throwing a ping-pong ball in the bowl, and you never did, but the fish always died within a week regardless?

Remember the craft sale? The potholders, pinchsions, aprons, and crocheted slippers with the toe shaped, as a colleague of mine memorably expressed it, "like a cat's anus?"

Remember the wall of lynched dolls? Remember before China made all our stuffed animals, and a child might actually want one of these?
Actually, the book says the "hug-me-tight" dolls are favored by teens, and maybe they were; drugs were already making serious inroads into youth culture by 1966. I mean, the Beatles recorded Revolver that year.

And I am a bit partial to #54 myself. Wouldn't want to sew it though; too skinny in the arms and legs. You'd drive yourself nuts turning and stuffing them.

I would stick to potholders.