I had such fun making these fingerprint Pumpkins in a field last year with our girls that I thought I'd revisit them, in advance of our big day. We made a long line of them which we put up around the room like a border. Easy and colourful, this festive decoration looks really pretty. You need an orange ink pad, paper and some markers. Simply get your child to make clear finger and thumb prints on the paper: make various shapes and sizes … [Read more...]
Cocoa Boutique
There's nothing better than arriving home from a long journey than finding a box of chocolates waiting on your doorstep. If only the chocolate came with a butler who unpacked the bags for me. Sigh. The people at Cocoa Boutique must have known I would need the chocolates. Admittedly I had to wait until about 3am for my jetlagged stomach to want to try chocolate, but it was eventually persuaded. And whilst The Girls and I watched a movie I … [Read more...]
Pencil Serving Dish or Trivet
The key to a theme is the details, according to the book. So I took the idea of Back to School and brain-stormed those things that meant back-to-school to me. I bought a lot of pencils. I bought a set of cork place-mats in Ikea for £2.50, and cut them to size: just short of the length of a pencil, and the width of 20 pencils. Then I stuck the pencils in place using a glue-gun. And, because they talked to me, I glued some of the empty … [Read more...]
Project 366 Week 36
Introducing Art to Kids: Hockney
A while ago DH and I got all romantic and headed to the Royal Academy- scene of our blind date- to see the David Hockney exhibition. It was wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, breathtaking. And we have talked about it a lot since then. … [Read more...]
Back to School Games and Land’s End #roughandtumbleplay campaign
A couple of weeks ago The Girls and I were invited by Land's End to spend the afternoon at Freightliner's Farm in Islington. It's a City Farm that I am familiar with, as Islington was one of my old stomping grounds in my past life as a nanny. But it didn't feature the touchable Ben Shephard then. … [Read more...]
Back to School Starburst Pencil Wreath
I'm so pleased with this wreath: fixed on the door in celebration of School starting this week, but also because we held a Back to School tea party for a few friends this week. … [Read more...]
