mary is a fantastic mimic ...

she can make singing sounds, and a 'blah blah blah', which sounds like me talking ...

copying trumps is good for a laugh, but the best thing of all is waving back at us!

and only 8 months old ... she will be sewing next ...

mrs pack rat resolves to do some dusting ...

and shes starting out with her sniney new feather duster in my etsy shop.
a few cob webs there since christmas i can tell you ... after that she needs to dust off my glue gun, so i can fiddle with a certain foam head ...

anyway, visit her in the etsy shop ... i wonder if anyone will want me to seperate her duster from her?

mama mia! drop in choir for mums ...

we went to sing today, mummy, daisy and matty ...
(and eat cake of course)
steve toook mary and gave her her early lunch

i realy enjoyed it, despite my resevations of choir-with-the-under-5s, and we will go back next week.

here is the link if you want to come too - http://www.johannawolff.co.uk/?page_id=5

logo used with kind permission - and we do look just like that :-)
and the cake was lovely !

a peep inside Rat and Mouse magazine ...

my lovely half page add - makes me feel very grown up!
i made it myself to required size, dpi etc ...



and some hand made rat and mouse goodies including my rats and mice of course!



it wont be long before we can see issue 2 - i have been looking at an edit of my 'make-and-do' article for your copy of rat and mouse magazine, click here...

caterpilly update - the empty cocoon !

and the moth ....

we like to paint ....

christmas came up in the conversation the other day, when steve and i were trying to explain a gardens and cafe that we like wasn't open much in the winter when its cold and dark. they remembered that we said cafes are closed on christmas day, and so ...

daisy said, thinking we were fools obviously, "christmas is finished now!"

and matty said, "christmas is gone upstairs. it's in the loft!"

i love their hair in these photos, we got a little rained on going to morrisons and daisy was pleased to see her curls apear in the rear veiw mirror!

swap dogs arrived !

our parcel from http://www.uniqart.blogspot.com/ arrived, how exciting. i swapped a giraffe for these little knitted dogs. i will never be able to knit, i cant knit scarf kits aimed at 7 year olds !



just the right size for little hands, mary-baby won't get hers untill she is no longer a suck-and-chew monster ...

caroline even gave us a basket that they can all sleep in together, so that was a nice surprise, i did think it was a hat at first, but only for a second, honest!