OMG!

ellie and her father are clearly identical twins...i never really thought about it before but getting a load of old photos emailed to you really proves a point

it's sweet that the likeness is there (because let's face it, she has no physical attributes of mine!)

halloween craft tuesday week 3

this week we made mummies

this is the 'gorgeous' ellie with her mummy

cut out 2 legs and 2 arms from white card...with a black biro draw lines on the arms and legs to look like bandages...staple the arms and legs to a tp roll tube...scrunch up a piece of a4 paper to make a head, tape this to the top of the tube....wrap a bandage around the tube and the head and fasten with bandage tape...glue on some googly eyes

halloween decorations

it may only be 10th october but my girls decided it was time for the halloween decorations to go up

lottie has got a halloween tree to hang her crafts, with green fairy lights

she even decorated her desk (i made the kawaii candy corn a few years back)

and ellie was subtle in decorating her window

professional food colours!

asda are selling these 2 for £3!

so we bought 4 primary colours...black, yellow, blue and red...lottie learnt that red and blue make purple, red and yellow make orange, blue and yellow make green

as used by lottie's favourite bakers, you only need a cocktail stick dipped in the colour gel to get vibrant colours for your icing

she chose pastel ice cream colours today

halloween craft tuesday week 2

this week we made pipe cleaner skeletons

lottie's

ellie's

take a piece of black paper...on a piece of white paper draw a skull and cut out. glue this skull to the top of your piece of black paper...cut pipe cleaners into the sizes in the photos and glue down to form your skeleton...once dry, cut around to make a body shape...tape a string loop to the back for hanging (ps: we found pva glue wasn't successful for this craft and we recommend uhu)

halloween craft tuesday week 1

in the run up to halloween, every tuesday is craft day (giving us 5 this year!)

first week's craft "puffy pumpkins"

lottie's

ellie's

cut out 2 large pumpkin shapes from orange paper...using black wool, sew around the edge with running stitch about 5mm away from the edge...leave a gap at the top of the pumpkin for stuffing...decorate the front in whatever design you fancy...to make your pumpkin puffy, fill with tissues until puffy enough...sew up the gap and make a loop for hanging

nail art

lottie wanted her nails to look like pink cupcakes with chocolate frosting and sprinkles

i think we achieved that