Story Sacks

Up until now, the teachers at the girls school have had an inkling that I run my own business but hadn't really been aware of what I did. Now I've volunteered to make story sacks* for Nursery and Reception, I think they may have guessed!

Here are the first two ready to go and be inspected (for size mainly!) and then next week I can make the other 18 they need!

Joining in with My Creative Space today.

*Story sacks are a cool addition to any classroom (ex teacher voice here!) They contain a story book, lets say Goldilocks and The Three Bears, and props to help the children act out the story like three bowls and spoons, a recipe for porridge, puppets of the characters etc. I *heart* story sacks!

Eeeeek my baby is all grown up!

How am I now the mother of two school aged children? How did that happen??

As you may have guessed Tara started school today. I may be a little biased but doesn't she look cute in this photograph?

Big sister had to get in on the action too :) You wouldn't think that there is two and a half years between them would you?

Apparently I had to take a photograph of them with their new lunchboxes too. Can you guess where we got them from?

And isn't my friend Ruth lovely as she made and sent Tara the card on the right. Tara was, quite rightly, thrilled with it and carried it around with her for most of Saturday morning!

So does having two school aged children make me officially old? :D

Sports Day

I honestly thought that sports day would have been rained off earlier this week but it carried on despite there being a fair amount of rain. The action only stopped after half an hour as the skies opened and it looked like water was literally being poured out of buckets onto the children! Here are some shots of Anya in action - the last two show the amount of rain if you look carefully!

Hockey girl

I think she spotted me! Check out what the little boy next to her is doing :)

It went in!

Junior javelin

My schwartz is bigger than your schwartz!

Erm what do I do with this again?

Tara and friend pinched my umbrella so I got wet through!

Views of the whole field - and yes, it really was that dark and gloomy at the end. Oh and I wrestled the umbrella back :)

My Rainbow girl

It's Rainbow Day at nursery today which means that Tara had to go in dressed up in as many colours as she possibly could - not a problem in this house as we like our colour. We were also told to be as eclectic as possible - again not really a problem in this house! :D

Here she is channelling eclectic elderly lady in her favourite skirt.

Socks and tights to maximise the colours!

She borrowed her sisters bangles, necklaces and belt!

Well they did ask for eclectic! It also maximises the potential for colours not normally seen in children's clothes - mustard, grey, silver, mint green. All pinched from my ribbon stash.

Lots of different hair clips too - the big yo yo one was a present from Alex. Sorry for the bad photo!

And here she is :) It's all to raise money for the school - we are supposed to sponsor by colour but we were wise to that and gave a set amount instead!

American day

Every couple of months they have a culture day in nursery and reception at Anya's school. Yesterday was America day which really translated as Cowboy and Indian (Native American) day :)

I made this dress Tuesday evening after remembering that I had this fabric tucked away that has teepees, canoes, bison and bears all over it. I made it large so that I didn't have to faff with buttons or zips and I plaited some fabric strips together to make a belt. I also fringed the bottom of the dress to make it swing and move when Anya walks.

And here she is with her Indian girl mask. We frequent Buffalo Grill when we go to France and the waiters are taken with 2 polite English girls saying merci a lot so they get lots of free gifts like these masks :)