Tag: Making things
Defensive orgo planning
For pretty much as long as she has been able to talk, Big’s last question of the day has been “what are we doing tomorrow?” and my standard answer is “I don’t know yet”. I’m not a person who lives by plans, and my children are, so I figure that this time around with home…
Endings and beginnings.
Small has finished school now. He’s very happy. I said goodbye to a batch of children today, and mainly managed not to cry, although a couple of them got to me. Big and I have our last day tomorrow, last day of term. It should be fun, although once again bittersweet. And then it’s full…
Fun ways to learn about parallel lines
This was our maths lesson for the day today 🙂 I’ve had to remove the embedded instructable movie as it was causing problems for IE users, but the project is the Super-cool easy 6 pointed snowflake – More DIY How To Projects It seemed to go down rather well, or at least it did after…
What we're reading now
Tim popped up to the not quite local branch library and picked up The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers. I’m fairly sure that under these descriptions I’d be the dreamer, and he’s the realist, it’s how we marry up those differing realities that count. I have so many…
Handmade Holidays « Handmade Homeschool
Handmade Holidays « Handmade Homeschool Maybe you’ve taken the Buy Handmade Pledge, maybe you want to handmake a few gifts for special people, maybe your kids drag you kicking and screaming into a world of holiday crafts, but whatever level of seasonal craftiness you’re aiming for, here’s a peek into how we’re trying to get…
Another weekend
another car load of stuff. 🙁 I don’t think of us as particularly materialistic (stop sniggering at the back there) yet the amount of stuff is phenomenal, granted a lot of it is books, or things I should have got rid of but haven’t, but even so. Today I bagged up another bag of rubbish…
A good day
started by the fact that I didn’t surface until 12.30, as I was finishing off my book, The Margarets 🙂 Not sure that I can be bothered to write a separate book review post (although I ought, as there are a couple of other books I’ve read that I haven’t reviewed yet. But there you)…
Little Birdie Secrets: it's a cinch! easy bags for back to school
Little Birdie Secrets: it’s a cinch! easy bags for back to school Technically back-to-school week ended Friday, but we’ve decided to give you some extra-credit homework! And even for those of you who aren’t going back to school (a shrinking audience I feel 🙁 ) you might enjoy the bag.
Drifting along.
Quite worrying that before I post I have to read the last post to work out what we’ve been doing… I can’t actually remember Saturday terribly well. Ah yes. Big made her first purse out of the wool we’d bought on Friday, so we went down to the shop again to buy some more of…
lessons in life
Today I found the right motivation to teach Small some more maths. I informed him that if he could count his own money out of the pile, he could have the same pocket money at Big gets (£1 a week) rather than the 50p he’s been getting. It took an hour, but he counted out…