SPRING LUNCHES: SIMPLE PLACE SETTINGS
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Now the Autumn nights are making playing outside until bedtime a less appealing option, we’ve been crafting more indoors. This month with Bostik Bloggers, we had a Hallowe’en theme. We decided to make a little Trick or Treat sign to show our neighbours that we welcome Hallowe’en guests and have sweeties to hand out! This…
Hampshire Wreath Workshop. So whilst I was away on my retreat at Riverside Lifestyle, I got to do one of my very favourite things – play about with flowers. This time it was different though – the very lovely and super-sociable Judith Searles Flowers came to the Riverside Yurt to teach us how to create…
As every parent knows, most young children have a knack for arts and crafts. However, parents should stop seeing these activities solely as a way to keep their children busy. Instead, they should recognize the benefits that arts and crafts can provide for their child’s development. Giving children free access to arts and crafts supplies…
After writing about my poor crumbling emotions whilst making felt cookies this week, we made a little tutorial to go with it. I’m awful at sewing and even I managed to make these…and what’s even better is I made 24 of them for £4! Budget friendly toys! Here we go… Step One: Cut and collect….
Just as we thought the weather was getting better….today it’s pouring down and we’re indoors. Never mind that we’re homebound thanks to the never-ending bug that’s circulating every child in Hampshire it seems, we’re inside. Inside means cabin fever prone children and so today we made a little rainy day wishes jar. It’s for those…
This month’s #BostikBloggers theme is snow. My parents, in the Midlands, have already experienced their first [and definitely not their last] snow of the year but here in leafy Hampshire we are still snowless. Generally if we get any it seems to arrive around January time which is a bit disappointing, especially when I grew…
Oh, I love these, it really (really) is bringing the outdoors in, and such a wonderful invitation for Spring. (and yes, so pretty, and straightforward, I reckon even I could give this one a go!!).