The girls finished their penguin bags (tutorial) today. We cut the flaps to pull out the tins and serve as a top for each bag. They sewed on black wooden beads for the penguins’ eyes, as the seed beads, that we thought we would use, just looked lost when we […]
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The Children’s Year book craftalong January
Here is my finished needle case for the January craftalong at The Children’s Year. I’m a bit late posting this as I have only just found the craft along. The Children’s Year by Cooper, Fynes-Clinton and Rowling was one of the first books I bought when I became a parent. […]
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I love crafting with the children. Sometimes they have definite ideas about what they want to do and other times they are willing to go along with whatever I have planned. Today I wanted to felt a case for my mobile phone and the girls were keen to join me. […]
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Once a week I take the girls to their swimming lesson and I sit on the poolside with my 2 1/2 year old son for 30 minutes. Notice I put 30 minutes and not half an hour. That is because I feel every single minute of this time. Keeping my […]
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