I have been toying with an idea for quite sometime. I have always loved teaching arts and crafts and all types of creative activities with my students at school. This year as I am teaching the Three Year Old Kindy program I find myself looking for lots of fun crafts, planned play and creative exploring for little ones. Poppy at 4 years of age has taken a keen liking to creating and drawing too! There are so many fabulous ideas, blogs and tutorials on the net. So I'm hoping to open a blog that bring all those wonderful ideas to one place.
I'm looking for crafty people who have been dreaming, creating and exploring with their children. Toddlers to teens - all ideas welcomed. Are you interested in contributing? What do I need from you? A clear photo of your craft item or activity for my new blog and a link to your blog post or tutorial so people can find out more from you!
Are you interested? Know of another crafty blogger who might be?
Please email me at -
I would love to get this up and running so parents, teachers and children can start sharing their creative goodness!
Up and coming themes
- Autumn
- Birdies
- Painting
- Rain
If you have something to share please send me a pic and drop me a line!!!!
Quick LO of the girls from our holiday in Margaret River. The flower is from a tutorial over at the Studio Calico blog. Mine is a bit wonky but it's a first attempt! They have lots of great ideas on that blog!
I am reading this book at the moment...such an easy, sensible book on raising girls. Everything from toddlerhood to teenagers. With two precious girls to guide through this life I figure I can use all the help I can find! Poppy is a very highly spirited and strong willed girl and quite complex. We often clash to be honest. She is outwardly very loud, social and outgoing but as she is getting older I think she takes alot to heart and is starting to doubt herself. She overthinks things and because she is all noise and smiles publicly people assume she lets upsetting things "wash" over her, not so. I know I will really have to watch her as she gets older. She is all about extremes. Either deleriously happy and loving or devastated and low. And all this at four!
Last year I read this one and should refer back to it actually. Lots of really interesting info on kids like Miss P. I don't think books on parenting can solve all your problems but I think you can have a read, take what "speaks" to you and use it. Surely we should all be open to doing a better job with these little people who are entrusted to us?!! 
She really is so special and wonderful I just want to guide her in the best way I can. She sang at "Mother's Day" at Kindy and made me a very "fancy" necklace. The best thing was the card she drew - the picture kinda does look like me! LOL! Not bad for four!
We had a lovely holiday over Easter - up to Gero to see my family. Lots of wine, chocolate, family and fun. Just love hanging out with my family. Poppy adores her older cousins and they take such good care of her.
My camera battery is not recharging - not sure if it's the charger or the actual battery! HOW ANNOYING!!!! DON'T YOU HATE THAT! LOL! Those annoying little things that you have to run around to get fixed. God knows when I'll get time! DH is at a conference ALL weekend too! BLAH!
Enough whinging - we did have a lovely, busy weekend last week. We had a weekend in Bridgetown. What a lovely place! We stayed at a farmstay and the kids loved the all the animals!
We spent hours at Donnybrooke's awesome Apple Park! It is literally the best kids playground I have ever seen - in a small country town aswell! Apparently some woman left nearly a million dollars to the community when she passed on and wanted to have something built for the town! How amazingly generous! Definately worth the trip just for the fun we had here!
Not much on the scrapping front that I can share...did some extra days at work this week at school and it really tires me out - so no scrapping in the evenings. LOL! Have been picking up so many great kids books and vintage fabrics at swapmeet and op shops! I have just finished up a "vintage handmade embellishment" swap at the BOXX. So great to see all the ideas that other's come up with! I have got some delish new supplies - some funky Sasslass and can't wait to get my mitts on some new BG and October Afternoon! Should get some LOs finished this week! 
Have been coming up with lots of fun open ended activities for my gorgeous 3 Year Old kindy classes. I am really LOVING this job and will sign up for some further Early Childhood Education Units mid year!
And a LO using some new Basic Grey - I love this range. Really liking yellow at the moment and can't get enough of Kraft as a base. The darker small circles are actually punched holes(that's my floorboards underneath!). Lola is SUCH a climber and this documents that!
This gorgeous girl finally started walking this week - at 15.5 months!
