Autumn has tumbled upon us in a rush and far from mellow mists and fruitfulness, it has mostly brought bugs and snuffles and a general sense of “gaaaaaaah, bring back summer!” This did mean that I had the company of various of my children for the last two weeks which has many positives and some […]
Halloween 2013
We went, as we always do, to our lovely friends house for Halloween. This year was a little different; for the first time, Fran couldn’t join us as she was working – and being big enough to have a job means you are big enough to have to swallow being at work rather than trick […]
Autumn in Hama Beads… again :)
I’ve seen this idea pop up on Pinterest a few times and was desperate to have a go and see if it really was as easy as it looks. Seems like a great fun way to use up mixed up Hama Beads. Today we had the beads out to make a whole heap of pictures […]
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 […]
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 […]