I am new to slow cooking. In fact my mantra of late has been fast cooking: the kind of cooking that can be whipped up in twenty minutes from when I come downstairs having left The Girls screaming put The Girls to bed to when DH walks through the door. My life involves short-cuts and [...]
|
I like making things from cupcake cases almost as much as I like making things from corks. Just before Christmas I saw a really lovely snowflake wreath on Pinterest. It sat around in the back of my mind for a while until one afternoon when The Girls were unexpectedly occupied and I was twiddling a [...] 
Before Christmas Mum in the Madhouse made some beautiful Mistletoe from felt, which I loved, and pinned. Looking through my pins the other day, I noticed LBG also looking. “What’s the Mamma?” She asked. “Mistletoe” I told her “Miss-a-toe” repeated Dimples I then had to explain what it is and why we use it. “Kissy-toe” [...] 
Last year we made a wonderful calendar after seeing Nurture Store’s family calendar. It was a very simple way of showing the important dates in our lives in a sequence that LBG could understand. A year on and it’s that time again. Only I made a few adjustments to the original. It all came about [...] Crikey- this time next week it’ll all be over! Can you believe it? I thank the good Lord for coming up with Pinterest, and the interweb in general. Aside from providing my beloved husband (the internet, not Pinterest) it provides hours and hours of distraction and ideas to keep the Girls occupied. We’ve been [...] 
Although Thanksgiving is not a British holiday, we have American family. To help LBG and her Dimpled sister keep an association with them, we made some turkeys this week. It was clear autumn day and The Girls and I picked up some leaves from the garden, which put me in a mind of a turkey [...] 
It’s been a busy Pumpkin-filled couple of weeks as I’ve been making preparation for Pumpkinfest 2011, and I think I’m just about there. At least I hope I am: I’m not sure I can cope with any more orange!! Here’s a rundown of what we’ve got: 1. Pumpkin wreath, made using [...] |
         |
|||
|
Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||
