The poor, sweet, little bird got a splinter today. She was totally freaking out because it was bleeding and it hurt. It was pretty deep and so I calmed her down and got out the tweezers, because that is what you use to remove splinters – right? Wrong! She proceeded to have a complete flailing meltdown at the very sight of the innocent tweezers. She has an illogical fear of scissors (and apparently tweezers) ever since the eye incident. I guess that is to be excpected. So, I thought to myslef, how the heck am I going to get this splinter out? Hum. I can’t use the tweezers, because it will take two full grown adults to hold her down so that I can get it out. I do want the scissor/tweezer fear to disapate eventually. Hum. Then, I remembered something I read years ago – I don’t even know where. Useless konwledge comes to the rescue again! I remember reading that if you have a hard to remove splinter you can smear a bit of white glue on it and let it dry. Then peel it off,and the pesky splinter comes out stuck to the glue! I figure if it works on adults, it should work on kids! And it did. Like a charm. I would use regular Elmers next time. I used wood glue (i figured splinters are made of wood – and also – it was way closer than our Elmers!) It worked great, it just took a little long to dry. Maybe I could have spread it out more instead of having a large drop. Well, whatever – IT WORKED! 🙂 Keep this little tip filed away in your brain!
Steph @ somewhatsimple says
First off, you know you are a “true blogger” when you pause to take pictures during your “crisis”- I love it!
Secondly, you won the giveaway on my blog!!!! That Sevi Designs Purse is YOURS!!!! Email me so I can email the company your contact info.
Congrats Erin!
Aunt Nancy says
Congrats on winning the purse, Erin! What a calm mom to be able to take pictures while performing “major surgery”. Lovin’ the blog.