LBG is on her way with reading: she came home screaming with joy last week because she has moved up a reading stage and is utterly delighted with herself. DH and I are so happy to see her love of reading grow by the day. Now that she has moved on to larger longer books, she often needs to leave some pages for the following day, so we have been plunged into the world of the bookmark. With the awful weather beating down all around, The Girls and … [Read more...]
House Renovation ideas for the kitchen
The kitchen is the heart of our home, not least because I am lucky to have an Aga, so it is the warmest place in the house for most of the day. It's a lovely large room which houses a good sized dining table, two walls of units and one brick-built recess on the third wall for the Aga. The fourth wall was a bit of a conundrum- it had an empty narrow alcove, the door to our hallway corridor and a sliding door to the small Utility Room. I needed a … [Read more...]
Cinnamon Apple Valentine’s Wreath
A couple of years ago there was a flurry of Cinnamon Apple dough across the interweb. From my reading it seems that this is a common childhood activity over in America but we Brits hadn't really come across it. Lulastic did a great post on how to make it. So I made some hearts to hang on our Valentine's tree. Recently unpacking a box I came across an industrial sized bag of cinnamon that I used to make my hearts with. There was … [Read more...]
Pom Pom Monogram
This is one of those crafts conceived in a few moments that took a long time to make, partly because I massively underestimated the volume of pompoms needed and had to wait to reorder! I made a giant Pom Pom Monogram as a door hanging for Dimples' birthday this year. I made the large letter A, using the same technique I used for making a Number Door Hanging from LBG's party last year. I drew the letter free-hand- but you could use a template … [Read more...]
30 Heart Crafts for Valentine’s Day. Get Your Craft On!
*Updated* Our Favourite Heart Crafts this month are: Pink Stripy Socks' Cute Heart Glasses, Momma Doo's Heart Collage Window Decor, Claire Justine's Upcycled Valentine Shoes, and Valentine's Crackers from Gingerbread House. Scroll to the bottom for 3o Great Heart Crafts! For the February Challenge, head to Kids' Chaos for full details! Join in and don't forget to include the hashtag: … [Read more...]
Rainbow birthday crown
You may recall a couple of years ago that Dimples had a wonderfully colourful rainbow birthday party which was loved by all who came. Now that we are past Christmas the first family Event on the horizon is her fourth birthday party. This year the theme is Dora the Explorer, with a bit of craft and lots of fun thrown in, I hope. You'll see some posts about this fairly soon. But I'm starting with the birthday crown for her actual birthday, which … [Read more...]
Using Decals to decorate a girl’s bedroom
You would be forgiven for thinking that we moved house to avoid a) having build work and b) decorating The Girls' bedroom. I promised LBG a long time ago that she could get her bedroom redecorated when Dimples moved in with her. The move, ironically, led to them being separated- and us having build work- so now I have two bedrooms to decorate. In fact a whole house to decorate. I started small with the Guest Loo makeover, the wallpaper for … [Read more...]
