Hmmm….

Not at all sure I did much which isn’t already documented here today really 🙂

Ros was planning to come over but couldn’t make it due to delayed piano delivery, which was a shame as I was looking forward to adult company and the children were in dire need of other small people to run about with. We’ve got Ali and Freya coming over tomorrow though so I am sure they will provide an end of week high point 🙂

First thing we popped out to collect a freecycle ‘win’ of a single burner camping stove thingy. Very compact but I imagine useful (I say imagine as I am still of course mightily struggling with the concept of cooking anything over a small blue or orange cannister powered ‘stove’ but I’m seeing it as an adventure and viewing it with the mindset of a fondue evening with retro charm and tasty morsels eating in bite sized chunks with minimal washing up – but categorically NO wife swapping!). We came home via the Wizard store where I had gone with papier mache inspiration in mind. Was not struck with any but picked up some more plasticine, a plastic peg logic competition game which has already been put to massive use although without notice of the instructions ( 🙂 ), some thread for when I eventually get round to sewing Totty for Scarlett, some very cute nail jewel stickers for Nic’s Nail Salon at Kessingland (I know, I know, but they were only a quid!) and some acrylic paint for the painting of the papier mache Wallace. I know, retail therapy but all very affordable – all for about half the price of a CV! 🙂

Home for lunch and I continued with my emailing, blogging, phoning and so on while the children played with the logic peg game and then went on to trash both their bedrooms. Serious lecture time from me about that – I accept lots of mess and toys being strewn about when there are loads of children in the house but not when it is just the two of them and the sole aim of their game seems to be to make as much mess as possible. 🙄

I did some reading with them of a few books, Davies did some colouring of some dinosaur posters – he rarely does colouring in of other pictures prefering instead to draw his own, but I noticed a different in tidyness of colouring and staying within the lines from the last time he did any. He also seemed to be really thinking and planning the finished picture rather than randomly colouring too which was good. I showed them something I used to do loads as a child the other day when we had the paint pens out – scribble pictures. Don’t know if anyone else used to do them but basically you scribble all over a sheet of paper making lots and lots of abstract shapes on the page and then you colour them all in different colours. You could get quite dramatic with effects blurring the edges and mixing colours venn diagram stylee or experimenting with effects and patterns within the main pattern, but it did give me lots of practise of colouring in anyway.

I spent some time moving a small plastic drawer unit from Tarly’s room which used to house nappies and was currently mainly used for hair slides and bobbles into the playroom to take up the overspill of craft stuff alongside the plastic drawer unit which had once held nappies in Davies’ room many years ago. So now we have two drawer units full of glitter, glue, pens, crayons, assorted papers etc. Have identifyed a need for a few odds and ends of craft stuff which I may have to satisfy with a BakerRoss order if CVs come through next week though, although the scrapstore is proving a good investment for £8 already having provided all the materials for the W&G sewn toys including the couple still in planning, and the sheets of huge paper. I’m about to get together a consortium for the even more local scrapstore too so we can start to make weekly trips there if necessary and start some more ambitious projects which I think Davies would enjoy.

And that’s kind of it for today really… glad it’s Friday tomorrow, I’m ready for a weekend!