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Saturday snippets 13 April 2013

April 13, 2013 By 3 Comments
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{Watching} the spy next door. Jackie Chan family oriented movie. A bit uneven in pacing, but overall great fun. {Reading} Follow me down by Tanya Byrne. Which has no problems with pacing {Visiting} kentwell Hall for a sewing day in preparation for tudor times ahead. Lots of costume changes afoot. {Eating} McDonald’s, as we were [...]

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Filed Under: Ages past, family, It's where it is, Making things, Reenactment Tagged With: , , ,

Not quite a resolution…more of a challenge!

December 27, 2011 By 15 Comments

but I want to spend more time crafting and creating. I want to challenge myself creatively. I want to design items and make them, write patterns and share them, learn new techniques and broaden my horizons. And I’ve chosen a starting point. The technique is icord as shown in this video and the project is [...]

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Filed Under: Doodling, drawing and decoration., Making things, ufos

Preparing for cybermummy

June 24, 2011 By 2 Comments

Or maybe not… So far this morning I’ve turned linen into a shift, and now wool into a kirtle. Yes, that’s a kirtle. Bit like a pinafore dress. It’s not finished yet, but it’s a lot closer than it was a hour ago! I think it’s safe to say I’m not completely caught up in [...]

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Nazca peg dolls for historyetc

May 12, 2011 By 2 Comments

If you’ve never heard of Nazca culture, you probably aren’t working through The Story of the World the way we are. One of the things I love about home education is learning alongside the children, and history is a fairly weak area for me. So this week was particularly educational for me at least. I [...]

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A quick octopus craft.

April 29, 2011 By 7 Comments

Trying to get my crafting mojo back atm, so I said I would try for something for RedTedArt Under the sea Get Crafty. In the end I took part in a purely supervisory role… What you will need for this craft is a book, preferably a fairly hefty tome, and some yarn. We chose a [...]

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Minotaur peg doll puppet for historyetc

January 27, 2011 By 10 Comments

Once a month or so we clamber in the car and trek a fair distance to meet up with other home educating families and join in a history club. It’s based loosely on The Story of the World: Ancient Times, and I can’t remember if this is our second or third session – may be [...]

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Questionaut, biology and yet more lego

November 16, 2010 By 3 Comments

So Big went away last night, dropped her off with a home ed friend, so that they could spend the day at UEA doing biology. By all accounts they had an absolutely fabulous time – she was full of it when I picked her up tonight. So that was excellent. Small managed mostly fine without [...]

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Filed Under: Big, Jonny had two apples, Making things, Puters!, Small steps, Soa

Still trying hard.

October 28, 2009 By 1 Comment

Didn’t get through our routine bits yesterday due to an early morning appt for Tim and myself, but did on Mon and today. Regular maths is giving Big confidence to attempt sums while out and about – she worked out the cost of two bits of fabric in the remnant shop as was this afternoon, [...]

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Filed Under: Ages past, Big, Doodling, drawing and decoration., fainting in coils, Jonny had two apples, Making things, Puters!, reeling, writhing, Small steps

Never off duty

October 26, 2009 By 6 Comments

for reasons that we won’t go into in detail here, Big was banned from gameboy, tv and computer today in a triple whammy never seen before. And as we don’t do sit down work on a Sunday, this meant I knew that I was in for a long day of trying to entertain her, preferably [...]

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Filed Under: Ages past, Big, Doodling, drawing and decoration., fainting in coils, Jonny had two apples, Making things, reeling, writhing

Not everything has a why…

October 5, 2009 By 9 Comments

declared Small this evening. He’d been asking for Brown Beaver’s phone number, and I wanted to know why he wanted it. He said that not everything had a why, and I said I thought it did. His response was that there was no why that the earth started, and I have to admit, I had [...]

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Filed Under: Ages past, Big, Doodling, drawing and decoration., Jonny had two apples, Making things, Montessori minded, Puters!, reeling, writhing, Small steps
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