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Valentine Hama Bead Patterns

February 12, 2011 by

In the spirit of creativity, we’re back into Hama Beads and Amelie surpassed herself this week by creating these.. I think they are very beautiful and we each have our own one on our desk. Thank you sweetpea. She inspired me, so I’ve spent a bit of time putting all our current Valentine Hama Designs […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Hama Beads, Merrily Empire, Spring Crafts Tagged With: crafting, crafts, free hama bead designs, gift making, hama bead patterns, hama beads, home crafts, valentines day crafts

Chinese New Year Activities

February 5, 2011 by

In the midst of a busy week (and next week is the same) the girls and I thought we would revisit China and spend some time exploring Chinese New Year. We’ve not ‘done’ it for ages, certainly not so that Amelie or Josie would remember, so doing some finding out and crafting seemed a good […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Fimo Models, Hama Beads, History etc, Home Education, Photos, Spring Crafts Tagged With: chinese fimo models, chinese new year, chinese new year crafts, chinese new year polymer clay crafts, fimo dragon pendant, fimo models, hama bad tangrams, hama beads, hinese hama bead patterns, tangrams

Total Lego Mania hits The Puddle

January 28, 2011 by

Our very first brush with Lego occurred when Fran was a baby; the Primo Lego (now i think an ex-Lego range) made its way into the house and stayed a while, largely ignored except to be scattered everywhere, by my “I-don’t-play-I-make-mess” first daughter. I think it was me that developed the obsession and I vividly […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Lego Tagged With: educating at home, education outside school, Home Education, home schooling, teaching children at home

Telly Food Tech (aka Healthy Eating)

January 25, 2011 by colneis

Introducing the first ever guest post by Max 🙂 This was my first crack at pro-active HE for a while now and it was generally a pretty successful day; everyone stayed involved through the day, enjoyed what they did and learnt something, so I guess you could say we met all our learning objectives for […]

Filed Under: Cookery, Max Ed, Uncategorized

Being a better mummy

January 23, 2011 by

Now that, I hate saying this but I’m having to try and make it true, the worst of the raw grieving is beginning to pass, I’m trying to keep my promise to Freddie that I would be a better mummy to the girls in remembrance of him.  I love them so much and losing a […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Arts & Crafts, Children & Grief, Creative Every Day, Fran, Freddie, Josie, Knitting & Sewing, Lego, Maddy, Photos, Sport & Dance Tagged With: baby loss, baking, beads, child loss, coping with grief in children, feeling biscuits, grief, how to help a child grieve, knitted teddy bear hot water bottle cover, knitting, lego houses, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death, when children lose a sibling

Sorry, what? Home education? Yes.. here we go.

January 21, 2011 by

I’m having a “what have we got on this ship that’s good?” moment. After wobbling about HE so badly the other week, I decided it was time to at least get back to doing the things we do well and working on putting in more of what we’d ‘like’ as we go along. We’ve been […]

Filed Under: Home Education Tagged With: educating at home, education outside school, Home Education, home schooling, teaching children at home

WAHM Bam… relearning being a business owner

January 20, 2011 by

Last week someone asked me about how I had turned a hobby into a business and I’ve been thinking about it a lot since, mainly because I was slightly depressed to realise I didn’t have anything sensible and inspiring to offer! I certainly didn’t get into business in any planned and intelligent way; I got […]

Filed Under: Merrily Empire Tagged With: being a business owner, business, facebook, learning social networking, setting up a small business, twitter, wahm

Inspiration for Aspirations

January 5, 2011 by

A while back I read something about it being unkind to give a child unrealistic expectations. It was just a thought, one I was not privy to the background of, but I’ve thought and thought and pondered and pondered about it. I’ve wondered if it’s true? I’ve wondered if it is right? I’ve wondered how […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Thinking Tagged With: educating at home, education outside school, Home Education, home schooling, teaching children at home

Plans – do we carry on?

January 3, 2011 by

Over the last few days, Max and I have started to vocalise some of the feelings we currently have about being a home educating family from the perspective of where we find ourselves now. The conversations are hard, if I’m honest. I don’t think there is any doubt that right now, as a commitment, home […]

Filed Under: Home Education, The Girls Tagged With: educating at home, education outside school, Home Education, home schooling, teaching children at home

Two events I forgot to blog

December 31, 2010 by

I think. I should write bigger and better about both of these but today is not a day I’m finding easy, so I can’t be bothered. But they both relate to good home education moments, so for the record, here they are. The first was a trip to the Cambridge Botanical Gardens with a group. […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Home Education, Maddy, Trips Out Tagged With: educating at home, education outside school, Home Education, home schooling, teaching children at home

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