Today we made a start on the festive crafting list I put together the other week. A friend found me some cheap metal bangles on eBay which I duly purchased and had a quick play with. This was my first go at a crocheted hoop, partly inspired by MollieMakes Magazine and partly from my Christmas […]
Christmas crafting coming around again.
Last year Christmas was such an effort; after the joy of enjoying the run up to it in 2009 so much (heavily pregnant but finally free of the desperate rush to pack parcels and run the business all on my own) last year was a major kick in the teeth. Making Christmas festive while you […]
The home ed bits.
Life, aside from being extremely busy, is very peaceful here, back into the rhythm we all find comfortable and comforting. The girls get their stuff done first thing (currently we’re doing lots of maths, verbal and non verbal reasoning, spelling, grammar games and reading practise) and then, with that done by 11am or so, we’re […]
Circles
The hospital I would prefer to give birth in (actually the only one I’m prepared to give birth in) is about to be taken over by a company called Circle; in fact, it will be taken over in the same month (quite possibly the same day) that Marmite is due to be born). This is […]
Felted Remembrance Day Poppies
Last year we did a lovely art day on Remembrance Day and spent some time discussing the meaning of the day with the girls, reading an appropriate poem and marking the 2 minutes silence. It was a particularly poignant day for me last year, having so recently lost my own son and I found it […]
Fun Firework Craft (yes, late to the Bonfire Party again!)
My children spent the afternoon doing pre-school crafts. Yes, yes, I know. But the advantage of letting big kids do little kid craft is that they don’t mess it up and I don’t have to stand over them being all control freaky and wishing they’d do it properly. Besides, I had stuff left over 😆 […]
Halloween Pom Pom & Window Art
Here follows a post which proves I will always be a family blogger before a nice organised mummy blogger or crafting blogger – or even a business blogger. I always end up doing crafty blogs in real time so people can come and look at them a year later 😆 Last week, a collection of […]
Visitors & more Autumn & Halloween Craft Ideas
This week is the most social we’ve had in a long time; I invited my two nieces to stay to give my extremely pregnant sister a bit of a rest, my Dad is over from Egypt and The Porticos also visited (these days we have various schoolies and commitments and it isn’t so easy to […]
Bells, Bangs, Skulls & Potions.
Regrouped for our WedEd? 😉 meet this week, which was lovely in itself but made even better for me by Fran being on half term and so along with us. I do miss having her about, even if I am pleased she is doing well at school. The kids started off with a Day of […]
Autumn Art
We are back into the swing of our art days now, which is lovely. This week we went for some simple drawing projects from Art Projects for Kids which makes for nice easy stuff to do. With Zoe and the girls we did two types of pumpkin picture, one with wax crayons and one with […]
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