Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The Morning After the Night Before
We had a very small Halloween party yesterday. We have a very small house which is a shame as it meant we couldn't invite all of our friends but Sylvie and Bea managed to pull a very restrained list together of folks they wanted to invite.
I will post pics later as they're still trapped inside of the camera!
There was hand shaped jelly, ghostly triffle, mouse tarts and spider cakes. Green monster cake, pigs in blankets and lots more ghoulish grub.
Games included mummifying each other, eating blood worms, zombie plops and frogspawn, (not real of course) and musical monsters.
The highlight was a rendition of the story of The Hairy Toe. Sound familiar??
The kids were all dressed up and looked great. They had a smashing time!
Here' a photo of Bea this morning.
Its Mark's birthday today so more partying for the girls!
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I will post pics later as they're still trapped inside of the camera!
There was hand shaped jelly, ghostly triffle, mouse tarts and spider cakes. Green monster cake, pigs in blankets and lots more ghoulish grub.
Games included mummifying each other, eating blood worms, zombie plops and frogspawn, (not real of course) and musical monsters.
The highlight was a rendition of the story of The Hairy Toe. Sound familiar??
The kids were all dressed up and looked great. They had a smashing time!
Here' a photo of Bea this morning.
Its Mark's birthday today so more partying for the girls!
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Monday, 22 October 2012
Are you sure it was the weekend?
Don't you just hate it when the weekend goes so fast that you don't feel like it ever arrived?
I have been going hell for leather in my sweat shop all weekend. I love sewing but my heat aches when I look out of the window at the sun shining on the gorgeous autumn leaves.
My dad has bought a new camera ans given me the 50D back so I'll start taking more pics again.
The girls have had a good weekend. Visiting grandparents, playing in the garden, jumping on the cat and hyping themselves up about halloween!
Time to watch some trashy tele before regrouping and starting all overgain in the morning!
I have been going hell for leather in my sweat shop all weekend. I love sewing but my heat aches when I look out of the window at the sun shining on the gorgeous autumn leaves.
My dad has bought a new camera ans given me the 50D back so I'll start taking more pics again.
The girls have had a good weekend. Visiting grandparents, playing in the garden, jumping on the cat and hyping themselves up about halloween!
Time to watch some trashy tele before regrouping and starting all overgain in the morning!
Friday, 19 October 2012
Blueberry Goodness
We have had a great day today with our friend Hayley and her two boys. She put loads of effort into planning a ROW of Blueberries for Sal and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it!
Hayley read the book to her captive audience then talked about bears and where they live in the world and about where, when and why animals hibernate. Sylvie knew more than I thought she did about the world, its climate and why certain animals live in certain places. The gang coloured in some maps then they did some blueberry art!! Hayley spent time cooking up blueberries and turning them into paint, with great effect! The gang coloured some hibernating animals using crayons which acted as a wax resist when the blueberry paint hit the paper. Very effective and imaginative!
We had a delicious lunch which the kids really enjoyed then they got on with a lovely craft activity, an autumn window hanging.
It was a really nice morning and we were all chuffed to be part of it.
The afternoon was about hair cuts and football for Hayley's eldest so me and the girls headed off to Heaton Park which was very pretty under cover of autumn leaves.
The girls scootered all the way to Jesmond Dene before we decided to head home.
Mark and I have friends coming for dinner tonight. Its the first ime we have done this in years but now the girls have started to sertle at a decent time we thought hey, lets go for it!
Ive had a chili in the slow cooker all fay and it looks fantastic. Roll on 8pm so we can at it!
I wish I had some photos to post but I didn't take my camera with me!!
My wine is calling me.........
Hayley read the book to her captive audience then talked about bears and where they live in the world and about where, when and why animals hibernate. Sylvie knew more than I thought she did about the world, its climate and why certain animals live in certain places. The gang coloured in some maps then they did some blueberry art!! Hayley spent time cooking up blueberries and turning them into paint, with great effect! The gang coloured some hibernating animals using crayons which acted as a wax resist when the blueberry paint hit the paper. Very effective and imaginative!
We had a delicious lunch which the kids really enjoyed then they got on with a lovely craft activity, an autumn window hanging.
It was a really nice morning and we were all chuffed to be part of it.
The afternoon was about hair cuts and football for Hayley's eldest so me and the girls headed off to Heaton Park which was very pretty under cover of autumn leaves.
The girls scootered all the way to Jesmond Dene before we decided to head home.
Mark and I have friends coming for dinner tonight. Its the first ime we have done this in years but now the girls have started to sertle at a decent time we thought hey, lets go for it!
Ive had a chili in the slow cooker all fay and it looks fantastic. Roll on 8pm so we can at it!
I wish I had some photos to post but I didn't take my camera with me!!
My wine is calling me.........
Thursday, 18 October 2012
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