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 – I was hooked!  now I I know what I am like and I would [Continue]

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 )     Cookie Exchange:   The Learning Zone Christmas Party:    Family Christmas time:         [Continue]

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:     We had a houseful felting Christmas stockings in all manner of colours and patterns:    We managed a snow-flake [Continue]

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 were decorations to make and lanterns to hang – once I’d set fire to my hair lighting some [Continue]

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 easy- lots of plain knitting so good for knitting while I’m watching murder mysteries or Merlin.        [Continue]

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 normal ordinary felt.  So our tree was very very very flat.  however we are resourceful people (aren’t all home educators)  and [Continue]

As far as my children are concerned today (Dec 1st) is the first day of Advent, even though as far as I’m concerned we started Advent last Sunday.  But today is when the countdown begins and we follow some general traditions. We have a card stable that waits for the inclusion of nativity characters. The [Continue]

I managed a night away without the rest of the family and amongst other nice things went to visit Guildford Cathedral.  One of the things I loved was a new piece of art called Cruciform Vision. I thought we could have a go at creating something similar but it was a bit complicated so looking [Continue]

I have made a crocheted pencil case for my Sharpie pens.   this had the advantage of combining two of my new obsessions!  Making a pencil case for the Sharpies gave me an easy crochet project to practice on but making something actually useful – the Sharpies keep getting lost in my big cardboard box [Continue]

We were inspired by the art projects website to make some patterned skulls.  Jonathan did one on orange paper first. This was completed when we listened to How To Cheat A Dragon’s Curse read in the luscious Scottish tones of David Tennant.  Ruth made bead things and I drew pumpkins using these lovely pastel things. He was unhappy with [Continue]