Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Double Letter Score



So, I was working on amassing my little pile of Christmas and belated birthday gifts for my best friend from college, when I hit upon the pretty simple idea of hot gluing some magnets to the backsides of scrabble tiles. I have built up an impressive cache of extra scrabble tiles, usually acquired for a dollar or two per hundred at thrift stores and yard sales, and I've done other fun things with them, which I'll save for future posts. My friend is a competitive scrabble player (meaning that, among other things, she studies the scrabble dictionary for two and three letter words, which can come in very handy), so I thought this would make an especially appropriate gift. (Although it later occurred to me that, living in the UK, she doesn't have an American sized fridge, so she will have to find some other place to use them.) I spelled out a pair of words, and then added a few more letters to the mix. No, these magnets are not an especially original idea, I know. But the importance of originality is overestimated, if you ask me.

1 comment:

lynneguist said...

The magnets are a lovely gift--and just wait until Celeste blogs about some of the other things she's done with Scrabble tiles.

However, I must protest the claim that I have to study my 2- and 3- letter words. What shame for a serious Scrabble player to have it insinuated that one doesn't already know all of those!

Lovely blog, Celeste!