Heart petal flowers are a really simple way to make flowers for someone special, not for any reason, just to say I love you. They would also make a really great gift to say thank you to any teacher at this time of the year. Materials Tissue Paper Heart Punch or template and scissors Paper […]
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Maxi’s class were lucky enough to go to Mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) on a school trip and I managed to get MadDad to work from home that day so I could go to. Now I am not sure I will be taking the boys back just yet, but it was a great, if not
Mini just can not control them, they are so visual, so transparent. It is like looking at me. I see burning red and hot orange embers. The lava flow that just erupts before he has a chance to think about anything else. He has no hold on them, no way to stop acting on the
Maxi was lucky enough to be invited to a special storytelling workshop which as held at a local school on Friday. He had a funtastic time and we were invited to take him back for a morning of fun and activities on the Saturday. So we decided that Maxi and I would go and MadDad
Maxi went round a friends after school for an hour last week (whilst I took Mini to his first swimming lesson) and was a terror, he didn’t listen to her and in the mayhem a paddling pool (hard shell type) got broken. After his swimming lesson he came home and wrote this (all by himself).
The best things come to those who wait, well that’s what they say. I am not good at waiting, no I don’t have a patient bone in my body. If I want something then I want it yesterday. I want it NOW. I have been known to stamp my feet and bat my eyelashes
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This week’s prompt over at The Gallery is Men. Pictures of the men in your life – dads, sons, uncles, teachers, partners, brothers. Let’s hear it for the men! So I give you the men in my house: My wonderful constant companion thought life, he can be many things to many people, including a maker,
As my boys are growing up, we seem to be having less of those incidents that make you want to scream, you know the ones…. where everything goes quiet and they are up to something. I have had quite a few of them. Permanent Pen Maxi once drew on everything with a black pen that
I am lucky, Maxi doesn’t crave big expensive parties, he is happy with a few friends and family round and things to do and quality time with his fiends. This makes me happy and I am more than happy to oblige whenever I can. Last year this found me making, baking and decorating cakes one
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