A Tidy Room
Well a tidy fireplace area anyway. We had some lovely flowers for Burns night so they are making everything look brighter as is the home-made book with daffodils on the cover. [Continue]
Amazon World
We were very lucky to be given a few Tesco vouchers that needed to be used up and as there are not many places to go to with them on the Island we opted for Amazon World with a friend. Jonathan [Continue]
Leap Year Blanket
Facebook is to blame for this – I followed a friend around and landed on a group about making a crochet leap year blanket. The idea is that you make a square a day and turn it into a blanket [Continue]
Needed A Day Like This
Martin had been saying for a couple of weeks that he needed a holiday so at the end of November I decided that even though we didn’t have time to have an actual holiday we could manage a [Continue]
December Catch Up
A few of the other things we have managed to do this December have been: Watching the amazing Bloodstone at Jubilee Stores (we even persuaded Jamie to come and watch Morris dancing ) [Continue]
Christmas Crafts
Despite being quite ill over the last couple of weeks we have managed to get some things done. There has been a fair amount of crafting. I loved these easy but beautiful paper Christmas stars: [Continue]
Gingerbread Houses
We had what my girls always refer to as a “proper” home education morning. This involves being in a hall with a group of kids from a wide range of ages and families and to do [Continue]
Learning Zone Christmas Grotto 2011
We had a grotto last year at Fort Victoria and it was such good fun we did it again. The woodland skills people helped with the grotto and cosy fire area, as did a few other volunteers. There [Continue]
Where did you get that hat, where did you get that hat?
I have been knitting a new hat – it’s a sock head hat that I found on Ravelry. The ribbing took me about 8 attempts to start but once I got beyond the first 6 rows or so it was very [Continue]
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree
We (Jonathan and I) wanted to make a lovely felted tree like the one posted here. I hadn’t taken into account the fact that her felt was “thick felt” whereas my felt is just [Continue]