friday afternoon CREATE

this week we made paper chains. for ease, and lack of fighting (yes they fight) I pre-prepared the paper strips. quite therapeutic with a paper trimmer actually.

we have oodles and oodles of christmas paper, and have done for many years. we 'came into' it several years ago and it shows no sign of running out. so I used some again today.

I picked up these little staplers during the week. are they cute or are they CUTE!!! honestly!

see, look this side.....

and again......

so after some simple instructions they set to work.

in perfect harmony.

then in the end, we joined it all together for a group shot, showing how l o n g our paper chain was. but tess the wonderdog though we were out there to play ball with her, so the photoshoot kinda aborted.

so here it is all in the box again, until December 1st when we put up our Christmas tree!

Jodie

more moody skies

I know, more lake shots.

but these are taken by chance in the afternoon,

and when I downloaded them,

the colours were so beautiful!

yep! rain still around in these parts :)

Jodie

friday afternoon create

we made the pompom tree!

we are all rather chuffed with it too!

Jodie

Happy 50th!

SIL - AG turns 50 today. we had some family in town over the weekend to celebrate.

a good time was had by all.

Jodie

the silver lining......

they say every cloud has one.

the rain has been back, on and off.

but we are rewarded with these beautiful skies just as the sun is saying good bye.

I know this is my second 'lake' post of the week, but it is still my favourite landscape to shoot.

Jodie

you must try this.....

the recipe is here.....

italian chicken stew - it is delish!! we have had it more than once now. first time I made it with chicken pieces, bone in, not such a hit with the younger residents, too many "bits", but the meat just fell off the bone!

since then we have had it with thigh fillet, still delish, but doesn't hold together as well - visually.

do yourself the ole favour and try it!

Jodie

the rain stopped!

and the sun came out.

and then it set.

and it was beautiful.

Jodie

a little creating of my own.....

not much to show, but these QAYG hexies will be a bag for a Christmas bag swap I am in...... NOT the SSCS, relax Chook :)

and these yo-yos.... I don't know, I always thought a cushion for my 'good lounge' but who knows. I am out of these red fabric now.

The baskets are new too, $3 for both at the op shop.

Jodie

it didn't take long for the rules to change!

week two of our 'friday afternoon craft' and I changed it to CREATE. the girls didn't mind :)

At the moment I am working outside the home and mr p's business and while it is not full time it is everyday and I am tired at the end of the week and my creativity is lacking. also it was raining again, or still raining, depends how you want to look at it.

so this week we CREATED in the kitchen - dinner in fact.

lil' sis was in charge of rubbing the marg into the flour and cinnamon till it resembled fine breadcrumbs, except that our marg was a bit soft and it wasn't really breadcrumb like.

miss paradise stirred the white sauce for our salmon mornay, until she could stir no more (she is not known for her endurance).

all the while the rice cooked in the steamer. (see how long the grass is out the window? it has been raining for weeks and weeks here)

here is a tadah moment for lil' sis - the apple crumble ready for the oven.

and miss paradise's mornay ready to go under the grill

a little while later it is ready to go....

yummy.....

and here are two portions of apple crumble and ice cream

and one portion for me with vanilla yoghurt

next week...... who knows? any ideas?

friday afterschool crafting

quite some time ago I purchased a pack of pom pom looms from Spotlight. they were really cheap and I thought one day they might be fun.

fast forward to the day miss paradise asked for the third time in recent years can she attend the after school art classes held on Friday afternoon. for the third time we said no. we think they are too expensive, we think she already has enough extra curricular activities - none of which she wanted to give up.

so I had the grand idea to run my own after school CRAFT (not art) classes.

I drew up a sign and posted it on the the bathroom door, anyone interested should be at the dining room table at 3.20pm!

now my grand plan involved commencing with a nature walk to collect treasured items to be used in future projects as well us some sticks/twigs/branches to make some pussy willow. we have a bag of baby pom poms here and mr paradise bought me a new hot glue gun.

we have had rain for weeks here, and yesterday afternoon was no different. in fact just to spite me (I think) the rain was even heavier at 3.20pm, so with some quick thinking I changed the plan to pom poms with a view to a pom pom tree in the future.

my craft class attendees were non the wiser and very happy with the plan. we pulled out the yarn, cracked open the looms and set to work. I have only ever made pom poms with two cardboard 'donuts' and found myself challenged by the looms. in fact I wasted 3 pom poms worth of yarn before I gave up and sort assistance from the world wide web.

thank God for youtube is all I can say! or at least thank God for Jenny from Craft test dummies! Lol. so after a bit of DUH!!! we got to work. the girls still don't know the grand plan for these, they have to wait for finer weather, but all in all our first friday was a lot of fun!

Jodie