It’s been an eventful year, both for our family and for our community. Much of what has happened to Home Educators politically has overshadowed the lives of too many of my friends, taken our time away from each other, caused rifts and sadness and frightened people into feeling they will have to move away from [...]
We’ve had a lovely and very relaxing few Christmas days; it feels slightly odd this year as the business was so much more organised that there wasn’t quite the “phew, it’s over!!!” feeling of past years, but it was much nicer for it. Max finished on 23rd and came home to a tidy and festive [...]
Craft #20 was the most beautiful of the season.
Much easier than i imagines and smell and look really lovely.
We’ve finished Christmassing the house – it looks really lovely…
(A mixture of tradition and technology!)
These chocolate Santas do slightly remind me of the one which appear in Doctor Who episodes though!
And i will leave you with [...]
Oooh, nearly there now!!!! Loads we didn’t do but never mind, we can either finish them over the holiday or do them next Christmas i guess!
#14 was the handy John Lewis Cracker Kit we got cheap while buying presents. A certain amount of frustration initially until they got the hang of minimal glue being better. [...]
Made easier by being fairly snow bound still, although i think that will change tomorrow. Our street is an ice-rink – i went out last night and kind of wished i hadn’t as the roads were VERY slippy.
These little chaps were mostly made while Uncle Rich was still here.
And this charming little foamy kit kept [...]
Although before starting i feel compelled to add a picture of my John Lennon style Santa
I will have to change his eyes
Do feel i should add extra pictures of the stained glass windows (with guest appearance of one done by visiting Uncle Rich, who insisted on Aussies style red soil instead [...]
Lots of easy crafts this week.
#5We’ve done Shrinkies already but here are pictures of the finished articles.
#6Then we moved on to colouring in Stained Glass windows, with some debate about where to hang them for best effect and what pens were going to work best and why. Some discussion on colour densities, light, seasons and [...]
