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What I really learned at Cybher.

May 18, 2012 by

Last weekend I went to a conference designed for bloggers. I’ve been before to similar (as blogged previously when I went to BlogCamp and Cybermummy) but CybHer was designed specifically in response (I think) to some people feeling dissatisfied with Cybermummy being a little, shall we say, superficial. I sat next to Sian (CybHer’s erm.. […]

Filed Under: Charity, Thinking, Writing Tagged With: #shareniger, charity work, cybher, NIger, the girl effect, WorldVision

Klimt inspired art.

May 17, 2012 by

I needed a shove today to get creative (actually, I needed several shoves just to get upright 🙁 ) and thankfully Maggie from Red Ted Art came through with her new Kids Get Arty linky. As an aside, Maggie did a lovely guest post for me on MuddlePuddle the other week, which is a really […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Exploring Artists, Fimo Models Tagged With: collage, Discovering artists, exploring modern art with children, fimo collage, Klimt collage, Klimt with kids, tree of life

Hard won happy.

May 13, 2012 by

It was not possible to overcome the wanting. The wanting brought a foolish mistake and a serious error of judgement. The error of judgement brought our world crashing down. That crashed ended in a room and £30 a week and arguments and learning to talk, learning to forgive, learning to be grown ups. Learning to […]

Filed Under: Thinking, Writing Tagged With: babies, grief, happy, loss, love, marriage, relate

Recent achievements.

March 27, 2012 by

It has been a busy couple of weeks at The Puddle and has even involved, not infrequently, all leaving the house simultaneously 😉 Last week, Fran, Maddy and Amelie all took part in the local music festival. This year Fran brought home the cello trophy and Maddy the guitar trophy ( by default, but she […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: grade 1 violin, grade 3 cello, guitar solo, learning to ride a bike, Peterborough Music Festival, red tag TKD belt

Test post.

March 26, 2012 by

Move along. Nothing to see here. Well okay. Apart from a very cute baby being a flickr tester for me.

Filed Under: Benedict, Photos, Uncategorized

Think happy thoughts.

March 26, 2012 by

Very important to remember that even with very bad days indeed, things are still better than they were. No Freddie but Ben is much better than no Freddie and no Ben. ‘Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten. We’re broken, but still good.’ Oh, the wisdom of Disney 😉

Filed Under: Benedict, Grief, Photos, Uncategorized Tagged With: positive thinking

St Patrick's Day round up.

March 22, 2012 by

Continuing in my theme of always being behind, here is a round up of the crafts we ended up having fun with for St Patrick’s Day. We did manage to find out a bit about the real story too, mostly because Amelie uttered the importal #homeedfail sentence….. “What’s that story about St Patrick and the […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Fimo Models, Hama Beads, Spring Crafts Tagged With: fimo models, hama bead st patricks day, Leprechauns, pom poms, rainbow crafts, Sst Patricks Day

Daffodils at WedEd

March 16, 2012 by

Wednesday this week marked a a big improvement in things generally. Not only was I able to drive myself to WedEd or the first time since having Ben but he was also manageable enough for me to be able to get on with being part of the educational offerings again.So this week I brought “Daffodils” […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Benedict, Drawing, Fimo Models, Home Education, Photos, Poems, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: daffodils by wordsworth, daffodils poem, fimo daffodils, home education day, making batteries, poetry appreciation with children

Mothers Day Card Crafts

February 28, 2012 by

This year I thought it would be good to reclaim Mother’s Day, given that last year it was right up there with one of the saddest ‘ignore it’ days of the year. I know the girls and Max found it hard to know how to deal with it. Given I’m also trying to get back […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Fimo Models Tagged With: fimo card toppers, fimo cards for mothers day, fimo flowers, hallmark cards, mothers day cards, mothers day crafts, online mothers day cards, personalised mothers day card, personalised mothers day crafts, spring crafts

366 photo challenge

February 24, 2012 by

I’ve been trying to log a photo a day (not hard with 5 gorgeous bits of subject matter in the house!) this year. My attempts, such as they are since I only use my phone, are over at merrilyme and I’m liking having a snap shot of the days of the year so far. This […]

Filed Under: Photos Tagged With: 366 photo challenge, merrilyme blog, merry raymond blog

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