Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Hello Meatballs
This week Robert the Husband and I felt we’d turned a corner in this pregnancy. On Monday we had the Anomaly Scan which takes place around this time and this meant that we got to see the Meatballs on the screen again. It was a detailed scan and one which took a while. We [...]
Monday, August 24th, 2009
It is not long before the children will be packing their little ruck-sacks and heading back to start another year of school. This is a great project that may help them to get excited about going back and they can actually use it.
*We used a sewing machine for this project but this pencil case could [...]
Monday, July 20th, 2009
A Day to be a Darling Bud
I used to love watching The Darling Buds of May on television. Loved it. One time, towards the start of my relationship with Robert he found me watching re-runs of the show on television. When it was finished I looked at him with a sad face.
“Aw hon”, he [...]
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Packing a Picnic Lunch for Children in the Style of Dick Whittington
It’s nice to be able to use up scraps of fabric in a way that doesn’t always end up with the scrap becoming a tea-towel. We’re having a great summer here in the UK with the weather behaving REALLY WELL. This means that the [...]
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
It was all set to be a pretty good end to the day. I had been running around for most of it and now, late in the afternoon, I was settled and began to bake some pink fairy cakes as I’ll be having a visit from Jo-Jo and the monkey doodles tomorrow. [...]