Last year I managed to get organised enough to put together our first advent calendar. I ended up doing a mixture of small toys, chocolate and activities - I had a small piece of paper put into each box with an activity for the day written on it. Most of the activities were things that …
Month: November 2016
Spot the Station
I signed up recently to get an email from NASA every time the International Space Station is going to be visible overhead which I'd highly recommended because that gives you a chance to say, "I just got an email from NASA" in casual conversation. You sign up through the Spot the Station website - find your closest …
Super hero line up
After seeing the Super Hero Felt Masks pattern from Willow + Stitch I decided that they'd make the perfect Christmas present for my super hero loving four year old. I went to Daiso and bought felt and elastic, and printed the pattern out at the library, and got to work. I made one IronMan first …
Playing in the creek
We were at one of our local parks last week when one of the little friends who we were meeting there, came up, brimming with excitement. "Can we go down the creek?" His mum asked me if we went down the creek when we went to the park - I said that we hadn't before, …
Upgrading our dolls pram
We have a cheap little dolls pram that was passed down from my cousin's children. Well to be more accurate, my uncle and aunt had it in the back of their car to take to an op shop when my mum happened to see them, and saw the pram, and claimed it for my children. …