bandana bibs

These are selling quickly to my buddies and facebook network. The bandana bibs work really well to catch teething dribbles and whatever food happens to drop! Plus they have nifty popper tape to snap on. £5 each plus £1 postage for the UK.

A selection for girls.

And boys.

Looking at these, I should have moved the groovy red hippo print - it distracts from everything else.

legoland

We stayed at the Beaumont Hotel, visited Windsor and had a whole day at Legoland last weekend. What great fun! After lots of warm days, it was unexpectedly drizzly and I was misguided enough to wear shorts. mmmm.

But so much to do, the day wasn't spoilt. It was really tempting to go for the year long pass, but we still want the day out to be a treat. The kids get so much nowdays (I sound like someone's Great Uncle...)We are already lucky enough to have passes to the zoo and National Trust. This way, it will be a real occasion when we go.

My favourite - miniland. Little rude things happening around Amsterdam!

bibs

I have made bibs in the past, using fabulous cotton prints, towelling backing and giant vintage buttons. They always sold pretty well on my craft stalls. Now I have the 'bib bug' again, as I wanted a couple of new ones for Gus.

Using my stash plus some great popper tape, here are some bandana bibs. They borrow from a recent idea... and have fleece or towelling on the reverse. Nothing overly girly at the moment. I need to do another batch.

Quite a few have been snapped up on my facebook page - ahh the marvels of modern media. But let me know if you are interested. £5 each, plus £1 postage.

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March

It has been a while, once again.

It hasn't been a great month for us. Keith had major back trouble - culminating in surgery a week or so ago. But is is onwards and upwards now. He is doing so well. Although lost a bit more weight ... it must be his body re-generating itself. Amazing.

Here are the boys at our local fantastic park - Stockwood. And this is the beautiful Isabella, my niece. The park is just fantastic, but operates winter opening hours - closing a fpm. Bugger!

february

Our craft day was hugely successful... and as the camera still hasn't appeared, we are without photos. I have left my lovely husband to trawl through the user guide of the new Lumix!

I hope to take some photos of Freddie's and Harry's versions for you.

This is what we did :

• clay hearts (white, self-hardening clay which we cut out and dried in advance, cosidering the ages of the children). Me and Harry pressed lace and buttons into the hearts for texture and poked holes for threading.


• pre-cut paper dolls from Hobbycraft, and lots of fabric dresses and decorations cut from my scraps.


• sweetie rings - using pipecleaners and wrapped toffees and glue. Just a bit of twisting and you are there!


• biscuit hearts to decorate (made by Michelle) using this recipe http://www.skiptomylou.org/margarets-sugar-cookies/. Which is fab (I'd forgotten that they do puff up a bit).


• valentine's cards using beautiful origami hearts and scraps and posting stamp kit from my sister.

I really hope to post some photos of the boys' work soon.

But here's the gorgeous Gus.