The very essence of Fran. Beautiful from the inside out with that very fact etched across her face. We spent the day making her ready for prom, thanks to a couple of great friends who did the hair and nail bits I’m no good at. I hope her evening has gone as she hoped and […]
And I thought school was bad as a kid.
People used to say “I don’t know how you do it!” when we home educated. Let me tell you a few things, now, while the “Back to School!” signs prepare to pop up in shops before the kids have even broken up. Here is why school is worse than home ed if you are a […]
Working Mostly Merrily
You may or may not have noticed that we’ve just relaunched our CraftMerrily website (home of Hama Beads and Fimo and currently Loom Bands too) in a brand new sparkly design. It has taken months of our time as we’ve done it all ourselves but has gradually turned into something I’m pleased with. Upgrading e-commerce […]
Me time? When you from Skid Row, there ain't no such thing.
All together now… “Alarm goes off at seven… and you start up town…” Ahem. Last year Max and I gave up watching TV in the evenings. We were suffering from the “87 channels and nothing to watch” syndrome and our internet is so slow that downloading things isn’t an option. Streaming from free online services […]
Little Girl.
She’s been my baby for so long. She’s been a closed book for so long. She’s been chubby and silent and suddenly she is lithe, determined, quietly confident, elegant and clever and clearly, most remarkably, beautiful. She captures another side of my family entirely; she alone looks almost exactly like my youngest girl cousin, from […]
The boy, the bed & the bedroom.
After 2.5 years, give it take the few cot months before the chest infections, this happened at nap time today. He’s co slept almost his whole life he naps on a mat at nursery but here he feeds to sleep and sleeps in our bed. Mostly he sleeps through if he has daddy for company; […]
For Freddie. #EveryNewborn
11 years ago when we started blogging, my friends and I wondered if blogging would ever be a way to change the world or even our own small worlds. It’s such a long time ago. So much has happened. There is a great deal more to say about this picture but I want to grab […]
My little felt fabric pincushion.
This week I have been learning a little bit of blog DIY and updating a few places to run on Genesis (with grateful thanks to Tim at Colneis for helping me unpick the mysteries of CSS and become a little more enabled in thew world of codey-wodey-timey-wimey stuff). The result is the PoP looks similar […]
Housework.
I’ve got a little something going on. Obviously I started this just before Bene got home on the Friday afternoon when Fran was leaving school and going to reappear weeping lots and 7 people need feeding. So it may take me a few hours to get back to it. Please bear with… as they say […]
Out of date.
Max and the girls had a model kit out at the weekend. It’s been in the garage, half made, for I don’t know how long, wrapped in newspaper, congealing paints, glue that has had long enough to go off and not stick properly. A relic of a different time. I couldn’t have told you when […]
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