tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67347684256503616592024-03-13T19:26:49.240-07:00luella lottsworthhomeschooling, unschooling, frugal, simple life storiesluella lottsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00385339673754087135noreply@blogger.comBlogger721125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6734768425650361659.post-64496177614391703482014-04-20T09:27:00.000-07:002014-04-20T09:27:05.943-07:00egg hunt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
we had our egg hunt inside again this year (raining pooh!)</div>
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lottie's eggs</div>
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it took them ages to find all 17 (each) of them (i have evil hiding techniques mwahaha!)</div>
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and lottie found the giant egg!</div>
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melted dark chocolate, crushed shredded wheat, mini eggs, rainbow edible glitter</div>
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the only time of year i eat shredded wheat (and it still tastes like cardboard!)</div>
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easter popcorn! plain popped corn, coloured white chocolate melted and drizzled over, smashed mini eggs</div>
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all bagged up ready for recipients</div>
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decorated egg cartons</div>
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lottie was very excited...</div>
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ellie was very tired...</div>
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easter-coloured old hound was having a naughty piece of chocolate...</div>
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we let winston upstairs for some time with mummy</div>
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he decided to spend the time with his sister lottie</div>
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either boo has a cold nose or he is praying</div>
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lottie's way of celebrating?</div>
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(alas there were no pots of gold at the end)</div>
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how i always wished i were janine...</div>
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my work costume this year was "all heart"...although ellie thought it should be titled "all boobs"</div>
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(the wellies were not part of the ensemble but i was about to walk home in the storm)</div>
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these place cards were made using a cardboard egg carton for the roses!</div>
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i found a yt tutorial and we painted them and added glitter and think they're lovely</div>
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a very lovely youtube subscriber of mine sent patterned duct tape to me (we can't get it here) and lottie was itching to use some</div>
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so she found a tutorial on yt to make these bows which can be used as a hairclip, bowtie or handbag decoration and had to make one in each colour</div>
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she is chuffed to bits with them</div>
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the dragon is out again</div>
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the celebration tree and festive tablecloth</div>
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it is year of horse so lottie made stencil horse heads</div>
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lottie's blueberry muffins...i never really thought muffins were "all that" until lottie made these and now i get it!</div>
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my lovely table</div>
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a clootie dumpling!!</div>
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our lovely dinner table</div>
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tincans covered in wallpaper and red netting tied in a bow...oasis inside to stick the holly and the ivy (please feel free to start singing), then red baubles threaded onto florist wire and stuck in too</div>
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these are for the tables at our dept. xmas party tonight</div>
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lottie made festive lovelies with her friend's mum...this is her yule log</div>
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and her sugar paste cupcakes</div>
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loola's gingerbread house</div>
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sparkly wonderland</div>
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our xmas cake drenched with amaretto!</div>
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we put our names down for this...the characters from the church's crib stay with a different person each night of advent, the current hosts contact the next on the list, they take them round, say a prayer and the next hosts look after them until the next day when the whole process starts again</div>
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we had a lovely lady called Carol bring the figures to us and she ended up staying half an hour adoring egon and the cats and having a nice chat</div>
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after much trekking around the shops, this is lottie's haul...disney store, lush and cyber candy</div>
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no cake this year, just (just?!) a dozen krispy kreme donuts!</div>
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happy birthday baby</div>
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guess who came last night?? yep st nicholas!</div>
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just chocolate and lovely stuff</div>
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