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Se7en’s Birthday and these are a few of my Favorite Things…

September 22nd, 2009 · 39 Comments

So yesterday was my birthday, yup the day after Hood#1’s… Birthday! I would have posted this but our internet connection was tepid and clearly I wasn’t meant to be blogging!!!
Let’s get back to the birthday thing:
This is me in the olden days when I was young, about “19″ years ago, before cars and trucks, before [...]

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Tags: Home Truths · Our Events

Ndebele Huts to Hats in Se7en Steps…

August 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Hoods have a thing about hats – the evidence is clear:

Alpaca Hats in Se7en Steps…
Go Dog Go – Do you like my Hat? – in Se7en Steps…

This week we made Ndebele huts to hats:

And we haven’t made anything hattish for a long time. Meanwhile we have been reading about the Ndebele people and [...]

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Tags: Paper Crafts · Tuesday Art Task

U.F.O. Tops in Se7en Steps…

June 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Since on Wednesday this week it was U.F.O. Day it was only natural that our craft of the week was U.F.O.’s. We made spinning U.F.O. tops and of course had to add streamers for pretty effect! This is what you are aiming for, when you can get a whole lot of hoods to stop spinning [...]

Underwater Ocean Scenes with Se7en Crafty Ideas…

June 13th, 2009 · 17 Comments

This week there were so many ocean goodies on our calendar and hood #4 has been looking at fish for school. So we went over to the aquarium website and decided that we would make our own aquarium for this weeks craft task.

So here you go: Se7en crafty ideas that you can use for any [...]

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Tags: Paper Crafts · Tuesday Art Task

Se7en Craft Kaleidoscopes for Kids…

May 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments

My kids have been asking to make kaleidoscopes for years – and I mean years! As the number of kids grows so the project gets put further on hold… I have images of little glass mirrors and bits of glass slicing off fingers and no… I just can’t face it…

But we bought a roll of [...]

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Tags: Paper Crafts · Tuesday Art Task

A Dinosaur Diorama in Se7en Steps…

March 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments

This was our inspiration:

Hood #3 has been working on her own private garden spot on top of the tumble dryer for the last couple of weeks (I knew we had a reason for owning a tumble dryer). But when she added dinosaurs to her garden and when after a week of reading about dinosaurs for [...]

Basically Brilliant Bookplates…

February 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Carrying on with our book theme lately and the fact that it is so hot we can barely drag ourselves off the cold tiles in our dressing room, where everyone has been lying on the floor reading books all week. We need a really quick and simple craft. This is what we are aiming for:

I [...]