First Birthday Cards of the year ...

Mary has spent a lot of time as a home educated pre-schooler watching, listening, cuddling up and sucking her thumb ... She will not be 4 until May this year, but has recently begun to want to form letters, and read books too!



There is no better motivator for writing than something you really want to write, and we always make and write in our handmade cards together ...



You are in control and can decorate your card inside and out!



Stickers are fun!



I worked on a few bigger sewing projects, then I added 'music' to the house, and played my violin ...! The kids were very kind and said it was nice, I played my friend Willy's song, The Carpenter of Sollas only not very well!

The right tools ...

Today I made a handmade card, for a special man ...



And did some lovely, chunky textual embroidery!


And we went out quite a bit, too!

crafting with my three year olds ....

matty' and daisy's gel pen drawings on a handmade card ... left to right, respectively ....

i love daisy's delicate figure - it has cheeks !



diasy's most involved soft scuplture so far ...

she combined 2 squares of fabric with some sewn together offcuts from goats legs !
then added the butterfly for a face - i love the way she has stiched into all the dots on the butterfly ....



hands-up who still doesn't know how i get anything done?

used stamps ...

i soaked off some old stamps and used them to make first class birthday cards ...