Backyard Visitors

Backyard Visitors

I wanted to share my excitement of some new creatures I found in the backyard. All that hard work of hours on end of getting rid of weeds like ivy, blackberries and many weeds I don’t know the names of, and all the planting back of natives...

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The Laminated Series- Fairy Play Mat

The Laminated Series- Fairy Play Mat

I have been experimenting, this time with laminating fabric. I tried two different ways: 1. Pasted some fabric on thin cardboard and laminated. 2. Put the fabric only in the laminating pouch and laminated. No 1. works and No.2  doesn’t! I...

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Newspaper Dress Game

I have another game to share- from the book “The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls” by Rosemary Davidson and Sarah Vine. This games involves newspaper, masking tape, girls (or boys) and lots of fun. We had 2 teams at our house, with...

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Dancing Ribbons

I once had a kinde mum tell me of how her child injured herself with a ribbon/ twirling stick. Her daughter was walking and as children often put things in their mouth, she had the end of the stick in her mouth. She fell and injured herself...

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The Laminated Series: Fishing Game

I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with the fishing game. Made from paper fish with paper clips on them… to be ‘fished’ and picked up by a magnetic on the end of a fishing line. Sometimes I give the children a piece of...

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Mushroom / Toadstool Stools

I have been doing a MASSIVE clearing of weeds in our backyard near the creek. This is the 2nd pile, the first pile was about 4 times this size… There were three varieties of plants that were lovely and green but were noxious weeds, and as...

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New Old Hospital Bed

I’m very excited and happy with my op shop find today, that I almost didn’t find! I had searched the whole shop and was at the counter to pay when I realised this dark blue blob next to the til hid something special underneath…...

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Shake It All About

I have been feeling “sluggish” the last few days and decided it was time to get moving and move that feeling out of my body. So this morning I went dancing. But first I have to mention that I did something that was very brave for me...

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