rainy days + a winner >>>>

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we woke up to snow, then the sun shone, and now it's raining.... strange weather today! we're spending the day crafting and playing games. it's fuh-reezing out there!

just dropping in to announce the winner of the intuitive heart sanctuary giveaway:

Rose Wood

congrats rose! check your email :)

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rainy days >>>>

we woke up to grey skies and lots of rain. instead of letting it put a dampner on things we wrapped up and went out for a puddle splashing session. embraced the rain and gave thanks for it :)

home to warm up with hot chocolates and a little peppa pig splashing in muddy puddles too, before we began homeschool. miss baya is loving her new peppa pig toy too {and she's mighty appropriate today seeing as she's a puddle jumping, mud covered piggy}. toy peppa joined in with the puddle jumping fun - she counts and bounces up and down ;)

i'm hoping the rain eases off before we have to walk lola to netball this evening - sometimes being car free has it's downfalls ha!

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the decorating has begun....

Yesterday we began to decorate the house! So exciting. Baya seemed confused as to why we'd have a tree in the house! And she was more interested in taking stuff off the tree than putting it back on! The house is looking festive and cosy. Today we're making paper chains!

There are more pictures on my Flickr - and I'll be posting more as we go along!

Papier Mache

another rainy day here, so after thinking about what we could do that didn't involve getting wet agian, i thought that as lola and kiki both have an abundance of 'things' (jewellry, notes, pretty girlie things!) and they both love baskets/bowls (wonder who they get that from?!?) i thought it'd be fun to make them each a papier mache bowl

'papier mache' is french for 'chewed up paper' - hmm, doesn't sound quite so nice put like that! it dates back hundreds of years (for more history on papier mache go here)

so, we got our bowls, our adhesive (2 parts glue to 1 part water) lots of ripped up newpaper and  some clingfilm, put on our aprons and set about making a mess and having some fun!

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all ready to start!

after we'd finished the bowls, we still had some paper left, so we made some beads, by wrapping a piece of paper around a straw. kiki needed some help as these were rather fiddly to do!

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beads and bowls drying

now we just have to wait until they're all dry so we can paint and decorate them!

i found this site here that has some helpful advice about papier mache, as well as tutorials for various things to make.

Rainy day fun!!!

It's been raining hard here all day long. After having made tents, and peg dolls, and cookies, the girls all playing together in the playroom while I painted for half an hour, we decided to go for a walk and splash in some puddles! Along the way we spotted a duck (cue much quacking from Baya!), found flowers to pick and a tree to climb in!! Sometimes I think we forget the simple pleasures - the girls love splashing in puddles, and fresh air after a day indoors is always enjoyable!