There has been lots going on here this week, even though I had a day out (more to come on that!) and we spent a day interviewing for new staff. As well as the geography day we did there has been lots of crafting of various sorts. Maddy, Josie and I have put together these […]
St Patrick's Day round up.
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 […]
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead
Miss you little boy. Night night. Wait for me.
There be Dragons.
Here is a better set of pictures of my dragons. They were my first 6, so hopefully I’ll get better at them but I had such a lot of fun making them. I love whimsical fimo modelling, there is so much less worry about them looking absolutely right and perfect. This little bunch of fellas […]
Ups and downs
After a week of all the girls being poorly, Max and I came down with milder versions of it this weekend. We pootled about though and did things – the girls indulged in a lot of rabbit play and pet worship, which was great to see. I made these and Josie sat with me, also […]
Two Art Days, a Latin Day & a Dog
Help! I’m all behind on home ed blogging again. We’ve been busy and active and out and about but with one thing and another, I’ve not caught up. By the end of this week there will have been more busy-ness, so I better try and whisk through. We’ve done two full art days to catch […]
Polymer Clay Book Suggestions
As you know, I love to make Fimo Models. I’m busy resurrecting my lovely Fimo-Ideas blog and while I’m at it, I’ve done a set of book suggestions for using Fimo & Sculpey. There is an aStore and a list, in rough order of simplicity to use, of my favourite polymer clay books. I expect […]
Suit Yourself Day
Family life is such a tricky balance; family life when there is such a weight of grief in it, when six people have got so many things to process and recover from and have such varied needs is, well, tricky at times. Grief, combined with the complexities of an important relationship in our family coming […]
Chinese New Year Activities
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 […]
Last weeks Latinetc & this weeks Historyetc
Here I am, back to record keeping. Of all the myriad of reasons for doing that, along with ‘people come a read this blog and then tell me they started to home educate because it seemed do-able from what I write’ (a fact that is occasionally worrying to say the least!) I think my best […]
