Just a short note to let you know that Freddie died peacefully in our arms, in the gentlest, kindest way possible, this morning. I think he had done all he came to do, including opening his eyes and making noises for a while before suddenly becoming a far more poorly baby. I am as sure […]
Update on Freddie
Sorry not to have done it sooner. We’ve had a rollercoaster week; i stayed in hospital for most of it until that was really no longer good for me, while Max has dotted between me and Freddie, the girls, the business and general life. My mum, dad, sister and Max’s aunt have been caring for […]
Baby Freddie
A short note to let you know that baby boy arrived on Friday following a beautiful pool and couch birth. Unfortunately he didn’t breathe at birth and has not yet woken up and is in SCBU though the reasons for this unexpected start are not clear. Certainly the birth was smooth and the only flicker […]
Club Penguin in Hama Beads
Or at least a Puffle on a surf board. Designed by Maddy, aged 9. Edited 2011 – these seem to be fairly popular. We’ve just got a copy of the Hama Designer CD again (thank you to my lovely friend Julie) and so I’ve drawn up the pictures. These are just for fun, no profit […]
Easter Egg Hama Bead Designs
Despite being slightly hampered by the fact that my CD Hama Designer has ceased to work (and my spare which is actually Sarah’s is with Jacqui who converts things for me!) and the CD is out of date anyway and doesn’t have the boards, i have produced this page on the brand new BeadMerrily which […]
Maddy is officially a genius :)
I am SO impressed by this. I asked Maddy to make me some unusual princess designs with hama beads and this is what she came up with. It’s really good, but was impressed me wasn’t so much the pattern, nice as it is, but the fact that she did it, completely from her own head, […]
Catching up on some of the stuff that's been done.
As you’ll see from my flickr account, i’ve been taking photos of the majority of the clutter… i mean artistic endeavour… that has been going on recently. Flickr, the eternal dumping ground of the home schooler… EDIT: OMG, i wrote home schooler, what on earth came over me, i mean HOME EDUCATOR!!!! Anyway, in no […]
As found at Disco Dots
This is cool – a hama bead Flickr tool which i saw over at Disco Dots. You can find it here and i have a feeling i’ll be playing with it lots to help make new patterns!!!!!
Christmas Hama Beads
Amelie and i are working quite hard on a set of decent Hama motifs for Christmas. Ideally i wanted t get them charted but i suspect that wont actually happen this year. However, i thought if i could manage 24 decent ones then that would be a good start. i also want to do a […]
Nothing but everything
Just to get back into the habit of blogging every day, even though today has been mainly just “stuff” without much planning! Fran and Maddy have begun on lessons on the keyboard, using a book i got from Ros. Fran is doing very well, and can use c,d and e okay now and read the […]
