Woosh…and school holidays ate two weeks in a flash. I did get a small thing finished in the holidays. A small thing made of smaller things. This is a toilet bag for Our Dear Girl made from paper-pieced hexies cut from vintage sheets. I bought a packet of these from a tiny wee shop in […]
Tag: Kid Craft
Crafting with Feminism is a new title from Quirk Books in the US, subtitled 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the Patriarchy. It is by crafter Bonnie Burton whose previous work The Star Wars Craft Book is in our public library and has been borrowed a fair few times by our family. I was sent this […]
According to Our Dear Boy, despite the reassuring progression of the Advent Calendar, Christmas is too far away. He suggests we have it earlier. We have been gradually bringing out the Christmas Pantheon I made a couple of years ago. Here are the Three Kings at the beginning of their journey. Here is the Holly […]
For the last four weeks after the childers are asleep in their beds, I have been secretly working on birthday gifty business for the month ahead is a birthday frenzy in our family. First up is Our Dear Girl and there has been a bit of secret sewing and knitting going on. Here is wee […]
On Saturday, we all voted in our federal election. Our Dear Boy’s school was a polling station and the parents ran a Fun Day to raise money for the school. With another mum, I ran the Learn to Crochet stall. We had quite a few wee customers. Interestingly, our customers were a lot younger than […]
Big heavy tub of blocks. Very little mama. Small Boy with good ideas. He took the castors off his tool box. We cut some thick ply to the size of the block tub. Screwed in the castors. Screwed the tub to the trolley. Boy can push trolley back to his room.
The kids have been having a go at embroidery! I put some hessian in a small hoop and threaded the needle. They chose the colours and did the stitching. Our Dear Boy (6) did the outer circle and Our Dear Girl (3) did some of that crazy stuff in the middle. Destined to become a […]
Our dear boy has been busy again. He just finished a book stand for the family to display favourite books. He installed the book stand and chose the books to display.
Our Dearest Girl drew her first person. She told us the person is sleeping (that is why one eye is coloured in – the eye is closed for sleep) and has a blanket over their body. Awww!
Our Dear Boy sleeps with this book. I had to repair it today because the cover had come off. Our Boy is enjoying a joyous bout of carpentry before school begins. He is only six but already has a confidence, passion and skill that I truly admire. The first thing he made from this book […]
