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We have been very busy this week making stuff. I have been working on my fish blanket. It is now all sewn together and I am in the process of adding a crocheted border. But you are not seeing a sneak preview, you will just have to wait for the unveiling! However you can see what the children have been up to:

Eilish made a door plaque and a pompom peacock:

Caitlin made a photo frame and a note holder in her favourite colours:

… and Euan tried to get in on the action!

Have a great Easter, and don’t eat too many eggs

… but bear it in mind for next year

We have the obligatory chocolate advent calendars in our house, but decided it would be fun to have a colourful homemade version to go on the wall. So we made advent calendar bunting!

(the effect is rather ruined by the fact that I haven’t finished decorating!)

Firstly, create your templates. We made an angel, a christmas tree, a santa, a bell, a snowman and a cracker. Each one was made from an A5 piece of card.

Secondly, draw round your templates on coloured paper or card, cut out and decorate.

Using a craft knife, cut a door in the middle of each picture and write a number on the front.

Next, the inserts (the wee pictures inside). Now if you are clever like me, you save last year’s christmas cards and glue small sections behind the doors to create the surprise pictures. If you are even cleverer than me, you will remember where you put said pictures last year. Alternatively if you lost don’t have any pictures, just create your own (or get your kids to do them!).

Assemble the pictures, then pin ribbon to the wall and paperclip each one to the ribbon. (I did this bit so that the kids don’t know which picture is behind which door, so a bit of a surprise each day!)

We made three swags with the ribbon and clipped eight to each swag, and made a star for no. 25.

Sit back and enjoy!

Yesterday I took the children to an Easter fayre at one of the local primary schools. They were having an egg-painting competition so before we went along I hard-boiled some eggs for them to decorate. Euan is naturally too young to do his own so I did the left over egg as it looked a little bare and lonely on its own.

From left to right: Eilish’s, Calum’s, mine and Caitlin’s. (Incidentally, the girls painted the two egg cups on the left a few years ago).

We took them along to the competition (well, not mine obviously, although the girls insisted I could have entered in the “12 years and older” class), and they all won a prize. I also won a rather nice looking box of bath smellies too and we bought some home baking, so we came away with our arms full!