What you need to do:
Open up all the flaps of your crayon box and cut off the back piece.
Fold the top and bottom flaps back under and secure to the sides and inside of box with tape.
Paint the inside of your box.
Let dry.
On the short sides of the box mark four equally spaced holes roughly 5/8” apart. Poke a hole at each mark with a pushpin then use a toothpick to enlarge the hole for the skewer.
Push a skewer through one hole, thread 10 beads onto it, then thread it through the hole directly across from it.
Repeat step with the remaining holes. You can add a dab of glue over the ends of each skewer.
Let’s go back in time with an old school calculator, that handy tool the abacus!
The Abbey of Saint Gall in the city of St Gallen in Switzerland represents 1,200 years of monastic architecture and is an outstanding ensemble of a large Benedictine convent. Designs of almost all the important architectural periods, from High Middle Ages to historicism, can be found in this monastery complex.
The Carolingian-era monastery, built in the 8th century, was for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe. Founded by Saint Othmar, it was constructed on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage.
It is an impressive architectural ensemble comprising buildings regrouped around the main square of the abbey: The west side includes the ancient abbatial church (the present cathedral), flanked by two towers and the ancient cloister, which today houses the abbatial library; located on the east side is the Neue Pfalz, the present seat of the canton authorities. The northern part of the square has buildings constructed during the 19th century: the ancient arsenal, the Children’s and Guardian Angels’ Chapel and a Catholic school.
The library of the abbey has some precious manuscripts such as the earliest-known architectural plan drawn on parchment. It is a unique 9th-century document, known as the Plan of St Gall. It is the only surviving major architectural drawing from the 700-year period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the 13th century.
As of 2005, the library has over 160,000 books, of which 2100 are handwritten. Nearly half of the handwritten books are from the Middle Ages and 400 are over 1000 years old.
In 1983, the Convent of St Gall was included in the Unesco World Heritage List as “a perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery”.