Pintrest Inspired Foot Art

Another product of last weeks ill children was some foot art!

I had seen a canvas on pintrest of butterflies painted with footprints and decided to do something similar, before long Big E will have size 11 feet and tower over me so I need to preserve the memories of him as a small person!

 

I put some kids paints into takeaway containers and got the kids to stand in them then sit down as I pressed their feet against the canvas, no photos as it was far too messy! I did it in the bathroom and plonked them straight in the bath after and hosed off their feet.


Little e did the foot prints willingly but Big E was a little reluctant! He has a very sensitive gag reflex and paint is enough to trigger it (as is soap, blowing his nose, custard, poo smells....don't get me started ...it is surely not normal to be sick in the sink because of the smell of your own poo...too much info I know!)! After he saw his wee sis doing it though, he decided to go for it, so with a lot of deep breathing, and gagging, it was done!

I added the felt flowers and the butterfly bodies and that was it.

A new piece of art for the wall!

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A Spring Wreath

There are some benefits of having two ill children for the first week of the Easter holidays, lots of crafting! We have spent a good few hours quielty camped out in the craft room making things.

I bought some felt on ebay ages ago with great intentions to make some fab felt brooches and jewellery, but the quality was pretty poor so they didn't happen.

It turns out it does make super felt flowers though! I sat and snipped and sewed while the kids cut up paper to make models, it was great fun and now I have a fab new spring wreath (and lots of new art work that was taped to the walls before I could object...)!

Not sure about the position with the silly lion in the middle (the door is massive, about 1ft taller than a normal front door) but above it is too high and below is too low!!

Hopefully the sniffles and barks will be away by next week and we can actually leave the house for more than an hour...

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All Change!

Do you every feel like life is happening just a wee bit faster than you can keep up with??

That is exactly what the last few months have been like here and it is still a little (lot) crazy!

I quit my very part time job a couple of weeks ago in less than ideal circumstances (lets just say someone obviously had it in for me and moaned so much I could not put up with it any more even though I had the full support of my boss). So, I have decided to throw myself into Heavenly Handmades , my card making business, to see if I can actually make a go of it, here are some of my new designs using my gorgeous new Wild Rose Studio stamps (bit fuzzy, sorry)

I always feel such a fraud when I say I am going to try and sell my cards because they are so simple compared to some you see but I figure some people must have the same taste as me in simple rather than 'busy' cards...


The website has also had a bit of a face lift, I am getting there slowly but I would love to be able to afford to get someone who actually knows what they are doing to do it for me! I have an advert going in the local community magazine in a week so I need it looking good by then!

Now to be a true Scottish person, a moan about the weather. There were record temperatures here last week, 22degC at one point, proper shorts and t-shirt weather

I raked around the loft (attic) to get the summer clothes down, had them out for a day then the weather got cooler and tomorrow the forecast is snow with a low of -9degC overnight, brrr! Global warming don't you just love it...!

Off to find my thermals for tonight:)

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