Month: December 2016
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Project Based Learning: A Very Victorian Christmas
Charlotte had the best time learning about how the Victorians celebrated Christmas and planning her very own Victorian Christmas. She put hours and hours of research into this and it went swimmingly. As Nik said, ‘Who else could say that they went to a steam punk Victorian themed Christmas party?’ It was very cool and […]
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Merry Christmas Everyone!!
A very Merry Christmas to all my blogging friends, and may your lives be truly blessed in 2017!
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Yearly Wrap Up
This year has been a funny old year. It has contained much heart ache, less direction than I would like and the pain of watching friends go through difficult times and yet not be able to do anything meaningful to help. It has been emotional, and not in a good way. And I think we […]
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Homemade Christmas: Tablescaping
Last year I had bits and bobs to put together a heart shaped themed Christmas table. I used white cotton table cloths over our large table top (made by Gary), overwhich I placed a smaller red and white heart one. I also had a couple of potted firs and some heart napkins. I had already […]
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Home-made Christmas: How to Make Your Own Crackers
I often make my own crackers. For this you need the cracker outline card (which I got from Amazon), a glue gun, cheap and nasty crackers, decorations such as ribbons, felt hearts and heart shaped buttons: I made the present for inside by simply popping some sweeties into a gift bag and sealing using some […]
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Homemade Christmas: Door Plaques
Thomas made these from a piece of scrap wood which he cut to five equal sizes and rubbed down until smooth. Using a glue gun he attached the letters (from Scrabble) of each girls’ name, drawing a heart on either side: Gary then attached them to the door of each of the girls’ rooms: He […]
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Homemade Christmas: Name Signs
If he had the time Gary was going to carve these as well, but the other signs took so much longer than he thought they would we needed to come up with an alternative. Enter a couple of sharpies and a wife. Gary cut and sanded the wood before it came to me. I wrote, […]
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Homemade Christmas: Storage for Hats and Jewellery
The girls were thrilled with their present from their Daddy. Gary had been working away in all his spare time creating beautiful and personal gifts for the girls: For C13 who loves her hats, he made a peg board which he had cut, sanded and carved out the letters H A T S. Underneath he […]
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Homemade Christmas: Name Hangings
I made these for the girls for their Christmas stocking present. I bought four slate hearts for a pound (!) from The Works and wrote each girls’ name with the meaning underneath. We chose the names for their meanings so this was a meaningful present for all the girls to receive: They were the perfect size […]
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Christmas Tradition: Books after Christmas
I saw this on Leah’s blog and I was enchanted with the whole idea. Well, it is books, and you all know how much I love books. So I sent off for some books the children had asked politely been nagging for, collected some brown paper, twine and sellotape and I was ready to create […]