Dona Nobis Pacem
by Jane on Wednesday, 4th June 2008

Welcome to this year’s first Blog Blast for Peace, and my first one ever. Yes *blush* I’m a virgin no longer.
Peace is such a broad topic that it’s been hard to fix on something specific to write about.
I thought about being flip and discussing the brawls we have in the UpsideDownHouse each school morning, when [...]

Party Loot Treasure Chests
by Jane on Monday, 14th April 2008

I’ve made up a printout for this project. You’ll probably need to muck around with the scale in ‘print preview’, because I’m new to this.
And the photo isn’t ‘one I made earlier’. It’s one from a party that Mr Bump attended.
So I’m lazy today.
The timber floorboards are real. Does that help?
You will need:

A4 cardboard

This [...]

We Have Guinea Pigs…
by Jane on Sunday, 30th March 2008

What do you do if your whole family loves cats, wants to adopt a cat, but can’t?
Well, in January we came up with our own answer.
We got guinea pigs. Two. One for each of the kids, named Olga da Polga and Mrs Guinea Pig.
Wren’s little black gp has been named Olga da Polga, because that [...]

At last! Some Easter craft!
by Jane on Monday, 24th March 2008

It’s a case of ‘better late than never’, with the Easter Bunny delivering a little ceramic egg-painting kit for Wren & Mr Bump this morning!
I really haven’t gotten into things with them for Easter craft this year ~ Wren has a new friend who lives 3 doors up and they are joined at the hip, [...]

Polly Pocket Cake
by Jane on Wednesday, 19th March 2008

Wren was really into Polly Pocket the year before last and so I tried my hand at making a Polly cake for her 6th birthday. I didn’t think to take pictures to show how I created the design, so if you have any questions, please do ask.
I used a similar technique as in the Thomas [...]