We have a pet... again...

Like most children, mine looove animals and are forever asking me if they can have a dog or cat. The answer is always 'no' or variations of it 'maybe when you're older', 'when we have a bigger house', 'then we cant go on holidays' etc. Last year my aunt came to visit and wanted to buy them a puppy so I allowed a fighting fish instead. We started out with a red one who died and was replced by a blue one, who died and was replaced with I dont even know what colour... more the point was that we went through 6 fish before I FINALLY said enough!! Turns out fighting fish dont like Miss3 feeding them cupcakes, peas, and cornflakes as well as Mr6 making whirlpools for them. It's been 6months since we last killed a fish (is there a pet killers anonymous??) and I decided to allow a pet in the house again with rules in place

1. we will not feed it anything but fish foood
2. we will not hold or pat it
3. we will not create swimming conditions for it
4. we will not tap the bowl to make it swim faster

Lets see how long this one lasts...

our new pet NEPTUNE... also known as "Nep-Cube" if you are Miss3 and think thats the correct name for the sea king

Cricut Cards

Some cards I made this week using the Cricut (I am obsessed with it), which I will own one day! Stay tuned as I plan on making card packs this coming week.

Balancing Butterflies

Miss3 & Mr6 are both little rockets that constantly keep me on my toes so I try to plan art/craft activities for them on a regular basis to keep them busy (and me sane!). This morning I woke feeling ill and crappy but in typical sunday fashion, they had woke hours earlier and were ready for craft time long before I greeted them good morning. In a panic for lack of planning last night, I jumped on the net and found this great, no mess, project for making balancing butterflies. There is a template and instructions provided by Childhood Magic and the kids found it amazing and have played with them for most of the day. Basically you print the template, colour it, cut it out, and place 5c coins under the top tip of each wing. This changes the centre of gravity so your butterfly can then 'balance' by the tip of its body.

colouring the template

we chose the smaller templates for smaller people!

Glue 5cent pieces to the wings (I used hobby glue) and wait a few minutes while it dries... we discussed why butterflies wings are so colourful while we waited.

test out their balancing abilities :) Ends of pens, corners of tables, chopsticks, (I was a little gross and tested it on my tongue!)... hours of fun seeing what you can blanace them on :)

FINALLY!

So I finally have a page! Yay for me and the war against trying to understand technology... now to work it all out...