Sometimes you need to make your own fun. I picked up this wind-up toy at a craft store when it was on sale for $2. Honestly, even at two bucks I feel slightly ripped off, but if you want a wind-up toy you can paint, beggars cannot be choosers.

The set includes three tiny tubs of paint, and not nearly enough colors to decorate this toy as depicted on the back of the package.

How am I supposed to make all those colors? Red plus gold does NOT make flesh tone.

The good news is I always have extra paint because I’m living my best life.

The better news is that I ditched the acrylic paints and spray-painted this guy pink and metallic silver.

It’s my crowning achievement of the year. I should win the Pulitzer Prize for Santa Painting. (Please vote for me!)

Though hard to tell from the photos, the wind-up toy looks incredible. The silvery metallic screams “Robot!” and the hints of pink whisper, “Cosmic elf.” It’s the type of object you’d buy at an antique store at the center of the moon.

And the wind-up mechanism works rather well for a junky toy.

I love it. If the craft store still has these, I may just make an army of antique pink robot elves.

Try to stop me.

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