We {heart} Percy Jackson

Sir TP and I have just finished our 4th Percy Jackson book in 5 weeks. We love Percy Jackson and the greek gods tale of adventure. We have only had one night of bad dreams about sirens which he thought were a little scary because they wanted to eat the sailors but overall it has been very exciting reasing. It is a challenge to find books to excit an 8 yr old strong reader that have an exciting story but stretch the mind further than good old Captain Underpants and where the language isnt pitched too high or crass. We have read all the Zac Powers, have made a strong start on Enid Blyton now The Secret Seven and hopefully the Famous Five and a few others. I have been trawling the second hand shops and have so far found this haul

I am also in the process of a sewing challenge so hope to report back regularly this week on making a skirt a day. The blogging regularly may well be the challenge. I wanted to do this last year - make 5 play skirts for Miss B for summer. Whilst no official challenge exists at the moment it suits me to challenge myself now. I will report back my progress soon

Cheers

First Costume Mum

Sometimes you cant help yourself you volunteer to share your skills and the rest is history. I have been working on Miss B's Pre - primary ballet costume and I think it is all final now. It is sweet and innocent - Dancing to music from Finding Neverland(a Peter Pan Story) and they are all little Tinkerbells(no wings) waking up Wendy

Our Spooky Party

Here is Sir Tp -henceforth Skeleton Boy my happy 8 year old at his spooky party. We even arranged spooky weather for the day and thankfully managed to entertain his 12 friends inside for 3 hours despite rain and storms ravaging our state for 24 hours.

As usuaul celebrations for us are as much about the journey as the destination. We made chocolate crackle bats yummy and spooky.

We set up a Spooky table.

In the morning Skeleton Boy woke up to a present in his room , balloons streamers and bunting. I had covered his floor in balloons while he slept

and just to stretch your neck (in case you have been reading blogs for too long put your right ear on to your shoulder and you can see Skeleton Boy and Witch Girl ready to go. Helium balloons supercede the broomstick of course these days. Skeleton Boy was great in our Spooky passageway which we turned into a dark space with spooky glow in the dark bats , skeletons and footprints. Not to mention my painted glow in the dark face. We all had fun and recovered in time to celebrate dads day the next morning.

Cheers for now

Snapshot of August

Can't believe August is nearly over. We have been busy with preparations for the school concert(pictures to come)Science Week and Sir TP's 8th birthday. Spooky is the theme and I will talk about that later also.
For science week ourfamily made a paper mache volcano. I assembled all the bits, Miss B and Sir TP glued the paper mache Miss B painted the water and grass and Sir TP the lava. Dad well he read the newspaper and found us some old brushes. We now love paper mache and have also made a Ghost Pinata for our party --SPOOKY.

A highlight of this month was Little Miss B winning her first blog giveaway. We are both big fans of Bella and Blythe and together we follow Bellas crafting adventures and it gives us ideas. Miss B and I have been saving up our laundry money in hope of getting our first Blythe doll very soon (I have been haunting ebay). We have also been sewing up little bits n pieces to make her feel welcome when she arrives. Miss B was delighted her comments were picked to win the giveaway and even more delighted when her little parcel arrived in the post.


So a big thankyout to Bella and her mum for making the sun shine on a rainy day.

One other photo for the month this is Washday Winnie from January Homespun (or my version). I made her using some dutch fabric I received from my swap partner/angel last year. She is keeping my Rocker warm for the time being.
Bye for Now

July Update

July saw us go overseas as a family for the first time to New Zealand. 2 weeks in a camper van and a good time was had by all. Snow, boiling mud, volcanoes and adventures. We came home tired and relaxed.

June Update

June was busy with preparations for our mid-year dance concert. Little Miss B was dancing as a Junior for the first time in Junior Jaz 1 and Pre-primary. Her Jazz class did Cats.

Update May

Time flies when you are having fun and boy have we been busy. So I have decided to try and do a few updates for my friends just so they know I haven’t given up on blog land and that I am still crafting albeit slowly

May was devoted to celebrating hubby turning 40 this photo says it all. We gave hubby a party and a half day rally experience.This was his face after a hot lap with an experienced Rally driver.