Max and i have been unbelievably coldy this weekend, to the point where just doing ANYTHING has felt like ridiculously hard work 🙁 What a waste of a weekend. Still, in the interests of trying to do something, we spent yesterday in the car travelling the wilds of the fens and in doing so, visited some places we’d never even been before. What an odd area of the country i live in, i really don’t imagine i will ever feel like it is home.
Today we’ve feebly attempted to tidy the house, i went shopping and achieved forgetting the only thing i really wanted, while inadvertantly buying Touch an’ Go Monkey Ball for the DS. Maddy had some birthday money which she bought two other games with, then got completely upset with because she couldn’t play them so we agreed a sort of random swap with pocket money owing that meant Fran got those ones and Maddy got a new one. Scary game, Monkey Ball – gave me vertigo – it was like hanging over the Melrose Balcony! I couldn’t play it. (I really do have THAT much of a problem with heights!)
Josie and i had a nice time out together anyway and i got back to a much tidier house, which was good. I’ve spent the afternoon wimbling through papers, adding products to BeadMerrily, sneezing and supervising various crafty things being done of finished off. So here, in the absence of anything worthwhile to tell you, is a multitude of crafty bits to look at.
Amelie did this, from a pattern, with almost no help at all. It isn’t exact, but it is bloody good. She amazes me, that child.
Maddy has worked at these all weekend, again with almost no help. She is so careful and precise that girl and persistant too. She assumes she can do things, rather than can’t, and it is amazing what a difference that approach makes!
Not ot be outdone, Fran did the new princess board and also got it all sorted on her own. The bird is the same one as Amelie’s, so you can see how close she was.
Amelie was doing Magic maize earlier in the week; after i suggested she tried pictures, she did these, of flowers in my dad’s garden. I rather liked them.
These are the little plastic pudding bowls we did with pva and tissue paper; the picture doesn’t do them justice, they are really rather gorgeous.
Same method but on a paper, waxed plate and them peeled off to make suncatchers.
Fran has spent a lot of the weekend reading and, after a bit of a break over the last couple of weeks, has now got to the end of the 3rd set of fairy books. She’s discovered she can curl up under a duvet, near a radiator and read. Bliss 🙂 Maddy is desperate for more reading; the next couple of books in her scheme are missing, which makes the jump a bit big, so i might hunt out some ladybird ones for her tomorrow, just for a change. Amelie i need to think about but she is enjoying a trial of Education City right now and we got our other computer back today, so hopefully we can all have plenty to occupy us next week. I so need a better week.
Finally, for those who might like to oogle – i did a page on BeadMerrily of most of the new and very gorgeous stock. Looking forward to selling it too, it is lovely. And i lost another 1lb this week, making 12lbs in 9 weeks. Very respectable.
sounds like you had a good end to a crap week at least. Hope the colds clear up and the coming week is a better one. 🙂
sounds like a lot has been done in and amongst, here’s to a better week healthwise 🙂
I absolutely can’t buy any more DS games until I get another DS! Fancy Monkey ball, as well as Zoo Keeper, and have you seen that new Brain Trainer that’s coming out soon? Justifiable on educational grounds I think 😉
Crafty stuff is all gorgeous as ever 🙂
I imagine we may acquire a princess at some point…
the PVA bowls look really good.
Did SB’s butterfly plate survive?
It did – is in the envelope with the card.
Ali – thanks for saying that! Glad the grim detail has been worth it!
Oooh, I love the butterflies! Must have a look at them 🙂 E is really enjoying the Super Monkey Ball, I got it for him last weekend (his totally unneeded swimming lesson bribe/reward/incentive/whatever!).
Oooh lovely craft pics! Colours are great!
Hey, it’s all go with the reading then. You know I still feel so excited having read about Fran’s learning to read and getting to this point, I think it’s been amazing to read about it here.
sorry to hear you guys aren’t feeling well. hope you get over your colds soon. love maddy’s easter eggs, they are beautiful!
Really easy. Cover bowl with glue, stick bits of tissue to it, cover the tissue in glue again – wait a LOOOOONG time for them to dry!
Merry love the bowls & Hama stuff. Gotta ask about Monkey ball? I havent seen it? I must be on a different planet to everyone else atm keep missing things!*rolls eyes*.
It is a nintendo DS game, but don’t ask me more than that. It makes me feel sick to look at it!
Oooo! how do you make those pva bowls? Rosie discovered her glue pot had dried up the other day and the glue had gone all “plasticy” and she wanted to make something. I thought about bowls but couldn’t figure out how to do it – I’d love to know, especially with the tissue paper 🙂 PS – hope you’re feeling better soon
Thanks! 🙂 we’ll give it a go cause they are beautiful!
Sympathise with both the boredom with the illness problem and the nausea on DS game! Luckily help apparently not needed with the latter, though sadly lots needed with the former…euwgh.
We’re just about well enough to try the tissue paper bowls though. Dd enchanted with the idea despite the sniffles.
Hi to Fran and Maddie and Amelie
Your Hamma designs are great, Fran do you have a blog? Coma and visit mine anytime
The link is on my mummys page
Love Kennie xxxx