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Further Tudor Doll Costume Merriment.

July 5, 2012 by

I’ve been enjoying watching a real change in my girls over the last few days. Amelie and Josie have both really persisted at sewing Tudor clothes for their Groovy Girl dolls and have got better and better as they went along. Both sewed gather petticoats in jersey fabric (idea for a doll, falls really nicely) […]

Filed Under: History etc, Home Education, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: dolls clothes, Kentwell, learning about tudors, living history, making tudor clothes, Tudor clothing, tudor dolls clothes

Blogging like the old days.

July 3, 2012 by

The girls want o make Tudor costumes. Normal practise is to make rough versions first and get the hang of it. I thought we needed to start very small; groovy girl small. Rather to my surprise, Josie has managed amazingly well. She’s completed, all on her own and with increasing neatness, a petticoat with waistband […]

Filed Under: Home Education Tagged With: drawing animals, making dolls clothes, tudor costumes

A day in the past.

July 2, 2012 by

Try to remain calm… We left the house, all of us, in one go. We went somewhere. We had a nice time. Miracles! Lots of our friends have started doing Tudor reenactment at Kentwell Hall. You might think we would be dead certs for this, I certainly have always wanted to do something of the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, History etc, Home Education, Trips Out, Uncategorized Tagged With: How Tudors Lived, Kentwell Day, Kentwell Tudor Day, Kentwell Visit, Tudor Life, Tudor re-enactment

Stuff we do.

June 21, 2012 by

I’ve got a post coming up sometime soon on why it’s been such a very long stream of at home days for so long and what we are doing about it, but while life has been mostly home, we’ve got on and done nice things. It’s been the mostly lovely, healing 4 months forums. We’ve […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Cookery, Hama Beads, Home Education, Photos Tagged With: baking, drawing manga, drawing Pokemon, felt sewing, kentwell sewing, making toys, Olympic Hama beads, wood work

WedEd: sewing, electromagnets (possibly) and The Listeners.

June 14, 2012 by

Yesterday was a good day. After a slow start my spirits soared as we came within a tiny distance of sponsoring six children in Niger, I was feeling disappointed in what I had achieved but actually, it suddenly struck me that in 3 days bloggers and readers of blogs have pledged £1700. We are going […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Poems, Science, Thinking, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: #shareniger, babies, learning to sit up, making electromagnets, making small sewn items with kids, poetry with kids, sewing with felt, The Listeners Poem, Walter De La Mare

Ramble ramble.

June 13, 2012 by

I’ve got a gazillion this to catch up on blogging wise. Oh how I miss the olden days when I could blog at 5pm each day about what we had done. I’m caught between feeling we do nothing and seeing what a huge amount actually goes on around here. There is masses of conversation ed […]

Filed Under: Cookery, Family Life, Home Education Tagged With: baking, bringing up baby, budgeting, electricty prices, Home Education, learnign to budget, school education, sewing, tudor costumes

Yellow Bird; that mummy and baby thing. And home ed.

May 25, 2012 by

I’ve got a 4 month post coming because I think it is time to stop counting in weeks. But one last time. He’s 17 weeks and he is so big and so changed and so different and utterly adorable. In the rare moments when he does stop feeding, what he likes more than anything is […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Home Education Tagged With: easy home ed, enjoying the moment, haitian song, yellow bird, yellow bird song

Wibble wobble, all fall down.

May 16, 2012 by

Sometimes being a home educator is completely brilliant. Sometimes is just one extra thing to beat myself with. Right now baby Ben is asleep in bed, which is a good thing as last night I somehow put my back out and, despite costly trip to the osteopath this morning, I can barely move at all. […]

Filed Under: Home Education, Lego, Reviews Tagged With: home educating, lego ed, thinking about school, tough times

Easter Holiday Occupation

April 24, 2012 by

Wow, what a busy few days we’ve had. Ben has had his first night away from home, I’ve had my first day fending for myself in the real world with a baby (!), we’ve had baby jabs and gym competitions and goodness knows what. And we are still dealing with the hopeless reality of BT […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Home Education, Lego, Spring Crafts, Uncategorized Tagged With: easter, easter crafts, easter lego, lego houses, school

Getting school life taped.

March 18, 2012 by

We are approaching the end of the 2nd term of having one child in school, unless you peddle in the pointless currency of 6 term years like this school does. I’m not sure that was worth the effort of rebranding personally; I only work in 3 terms and I suspect it will go the way […]

Filed Under: Fran, Home Education Tagged With: name tapes, school after home education, school life, team sports

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