That Maddy is a stop motion animation genius.
There are 700 photos in that clip, all taken on my iPhone with no help (and only a Lego built stand for it) and all the timing comes from her singing the song in her head as she did it. I put it into Windows Movie Maker for her (at extreme personal cost to my sanity) but she wants to redo it now to get it perfect 😆 I think it is amazing. Wait for the music to start, I have cried laughing watching it.
Amelie and Josie learned (again) that if I tell them to tidy their room I won’t forget and if I ban them from screens for a week… I also won’t forget 😆
Josie learned to use a stop watch to time different marbles going down a run and how to write down and compare times.
Amelie learned (again) that I can hear what violin practise she is doing and I am not an idiot.
Fran learned that leaving homework you don’t want to do to the last minute will not make it easier to do, that blazers don’t make it home alone and if left at school they will be significantly more lost by the next day. She also learned that if your parents have slept past their alarm and are still snoozing at 7.45am, there is a good chance you need to wake them up or you will be late to school. And that it is you who get yelled at about that, not them.
She also learned that being average at after school clubs when you work with people who are excellent, still translates into being fabulous and wowing people at school. So she discovered she was very fit in her PE GCSE class and much better than she thinks at sport and trampoline in general. And that schools like nice kids and will assimilate them and show them off at open evenings very quickly.
Maddy also learned that being clever is fun when a teacher in the physics lab at Fran’s new school (open evening) asked her if she knew how to build a circuit. She also discovered that a MASSHOOSIVE room full of iMacs might be fun at some point.
I learned that being 20 weeks pregnant is not a bad place to be and less scary than it was but it is amazing how new it can feel even on number 6. And got hit by an almost terrifying wave of love for this little person.
I learned that draft posts are a bad thing and not to be tolerated.
I also learned that I am not good at movie making, my laptop hates me and that if I am going to award ceremonies, I really should pay attention and get organisation. I am going to do that right after I blogged.
I remembered how much I love Hama Beads after doing the Celtic Hama Bead Kit I designed at history etc and finally got organised so we actually have read the associated chapters this time!
And I learned that buying the yarn for a project does sort of commit you to doing it, even if Deb doesn’t agree I have a stash of yarn at all. (I also met and hosted Deb, who I have known online for years. She is EXACTLY how she sounds in her blog, but with an accent!)
Max and I learned to use our brand new shop, which the business purchased this week.
All of us learned how much nicer home grown corn and potatoes for you tea is.
And that getting TV back again is very sweet indeed.
Wow! How clever is that? I love how the faces change too. Kudos to Maddy!
Love the whistle stop tour through the rest of the week, do you stay horizontal for the whole of the weekend to recover?
That is one of the best animations I’ve seen. My son (11) is always showing me this kind of stuff that he finds on YouTube and Maddy’s is way up there with the best. She should be so proud of herself – simply brilliant!!
The videos is hilarious. How does she make the heads jump off the bodies? A great talent there.
I think she just did a frame of them lifted up on to the stalk of the head. It is impossibly cool.
That video is great! Love it! You are looking lovely in that pic too Merry, even if you are protecting your bump with a big cardy and a child. :0)
Dammit, you spotted that then!
What a brilliant post I thoroughly enjoyed reading it! The animation is sooooo brilliant, I am in complete awe.
Congratulations on your pregnancy too xxx
absolutely fabulous animation I have played it to 3 of my daughters and they were really impressed. DD2 so much so that she has started doing her own with playmobil. She had a friend round for tea tonight and insisted on playing it to her too.
That video is absolutely brilliant. Incredibly brilliant. She is a true unadulterated genius and my face hurts from laughing, which I really really needed today.
Wow! Love the right said fred video. It’s amazing & made me laugh a lot.
Wow! Sim and I roared with laughter- best bit for me was when one of them was squashed by the piano, hahaha! Pure genius- well done Maddy.
Lots learnt then. Was fabulous to see you merry. Stay well x
Wow! I love the animation, it is fantastic. Maddy is amazing! I cannot wait to show my 7 year old lego-fan in the morning. He has just recently asked me if he can try windows movie maker, which I know nothing about, so I keep telling him to ask his dad – wish I wasn’t such a technophobe. Sounds like a great week:) The bedroom-tidying and violin practice woes are reassuringly familiar – I get the silent and uncannily quick violin practices too!
WOW, that animation is amazing!! Your new shop looks brilliant too. x
Showed the animation to the 7 and 5 year olds today and they absolutely loved it. So now I think I am committed to having to learn how windows movie maker works, they will not let me forget about it!!