INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you have children or nieces/nephews, get them to play with you. Getting your adult friends involved can also be fun. There's a whole psychology behind hide and seek that says it's a life-affirming game of exploration and being loved. You could even rent a bouncy house for a day and invite all of your friends. The physical activity will help you burn off stress, and the experience will remind you of how much you enjoyed bouncing as a child. These activities will help you tap into your childhood creativity, where objects you draw aren't just things on a page, but open up entire emotional worlds. Research suggests that drawing helps children express their emotions, which they aren't aware of yet in the same way than adults can be. Drawing and other visual arts can help your inner child express herself. Dancing can help you burn off stress like other physical activity, and it's also a creative avenue of expression that spans different age groups. Everyone loves to dance, from childhood all the way to old age. Use dance to connect with your inner child in a way that also honors your adulthood desires and interests. Make sure to include songs from your childhood in the playlist! This involves letting your conscious mind rest while other parts of yourself take over. It can be a powerful source of creativity and fun, especially if you set the intention of letting your inner child express herself as she sees fit. Use crayons, colored pencils, or colored paper to make things more fun.

SUMMARY: Play hide and seek. Buy a trampoline or use someone else's. Fingerpaint, draw, or buy a coloring book. Throw a dance party. Try free-writing or free-drawing.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Glazing is best done on antique looking pieces with nicks, carving or other details, rather than flat, modern pieces. Sanding will even out the piece of furniture and prep it for painting. However, it can also remove some of the distressed portions that give the glazing character. If you do plan to sand, use 120-grit sandpaper. You don’t want the sandpaper to be too coarse. This will create a durable base coat for the furniture. You can purchase primer in a spray can or in liquid, paint-like form. You will want to choose white, ivory, tan, blue or another light color. The glaze will always be darker, so you will need to ensure it will show up on your piece of furniture.  You can use paint or spray paint from your local hardware store. Keep in mind that the more you plan to use the piece of furniture, the more coats of primer and paint you should use. Allow the paint to cure overnight after you apply the last coat. There are two ways to do this: ask the hardware store to mix it with your favorite paint color or do it yourself. Choose a dark color, such as black, brown, dark red or dark blue, to color your glaze.  To mix the glaze yourself, grab a yogurt container or plastic cup. Pour one cup of opaque glaze into the cup. Then, add several squirts or one tablespoon of your dark paint. Mix with a chopstick or paint stirrer. Add more paint as needed to achieve a dark color. This is the color that will remain in the molding or crevices on your furniture. Apply it to one leg or portion of the furniture. Work in no more than one-foot sections at a time, so that you can complete the section before the glaze dries.  The advantage of using glaze instead of paint is that glaze takes longer to dry than paint, so you can create the look you want without risk of it drying before you perfect it. You have about 10 to 20 minutes to work on one area.  Work the glaze into the crevices and carving. Spend plenty of time getting it into these areas, because that is where the glaze will remain when you wipe the rest of it off the furniture. Use the rag method if you want a “dirtier” look or you want to use more glaze, because it will be harder to wipe off to the original base color. Use baby wipes if you want to remove as much glaze from the top of the furniture.  Wipe in clean, straight strokes. Don’t get the rag or wipe into the crevices, because you want the glaze to remain in these areas. Try to get the glaze off the surface of the furniture. Then, replace your rag or wipe with another when it becomes too covered with glaze to wipe off completely. When you have completed the entire piece of furniture, let it sit overnight. Reassess the piece to see if you need to apply more glaze for darker accents.  You can apply a second coat of glaze in exactly the same way you did the first coat. The more coats of glaze you apply, the more dramatic the carving and crannies will look. You can do the whole top, side or back of a piece at once. The more detailed the piece of furniture is, the more you will need to break the work down into smaller areas. Apply two coats to ensure it is durable.
Summary: Choose your piece of furniture. Decide if you want to sand the piece or not. Prime the piece of furniture before you paint. Paint the furniture a light color. Mix a cup of glaze. Dip a foam paintbrush into the glaze. Wipe the glaze off with a damp discarded rag or baby wipes. Continue glazing the furniture in one-foot areas. Spray a clear poly coat sealer to seal in the glaze.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Don't break right out into the "I love you"s and don't talk about the future you want the two of you to have. You want to avoid speaking in definite terms about the future because this creates a lot of pressure and expectations for him...which is stressful and can scare him away! Instead, speak in terms of what you want to try or what you hope might become real eventually. "I hope we can try being more than friends,", etc. Don't be creepy when you tell him how you feel. This means no begging, no bargaining, and try not to touch him or get into his personal space until you know he feels the same way. You also shouldn't cling around him if he needs time to think about what you said. If you can, tell him how you feel in person. Using social media or a text can come across as not being very serious or, worse, being a joke. This is not how you want to start things with him. You don't want to rush into telling him and if he returns your feelings, don't rush into a serious relationship. If you're going to go through the torture of confessing, you want to be sure that you really like him first, right? This is can be a long process and one that will continue even if you start dating. Just focus on getting to know him for who he really is, by spending time with him and talking about things that are important to you: what you both want for the future, what your beliefs are, and what you like to do for fun.

SUMMARY:
Don't pressure him. Don't be creepy. Don't use social media or a phone. Don't rush into things.