Guess who just turned three?

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Lani, Eli and Lilly wanted to surprise Sabi with her own “on her actual birthday” cake, even though her party will be at the end of November with Eli’s. I let them do the whole thing themselves, right down to finding the ingredients at the supermarket.


The Amazon at home

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Our church has been laying new carpet. This means the biggest cardboard rolls we’ve ever gotten our hands on are just laying around the place and since we are studying the continent of South America, and looking closely at Brazil, when I saw them I immediately thought tree trunks.


My creative space

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I have been to kootoyoo many many times, I love that blog and I really love popping over there on a Thursday to check out all the creative spaces. This week I thought I would be bold and play along. Manly because I wanted to show you….. …my six year old daughters latest art work, [...]


Easy Christmas Tree Kids Craft

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To help your little one make this cute little table centre piece you will need: a foam cone paint green paper sticky tape glue stick and a packet of decofoam pins   My kids weren’t happy with just one shade of green but I didn’t want the paintwork to be to busy and distract from [...]


How to Make History Come Alive: Natural dyes.

We have been thinking a lot lately about those shadowy figures who inhabit the distant lands of The Past. And as a way of bringing them alive in our minds I thought we could have a go at living replicating some of their everyday activities. So this is us learning about how people in the past [...]


Little Elephant

This little guy is for our friends first ever little baby, I’m very excited. Glenn and I went to Uni with the Daddy (sorry didn’t check whether they minded their names being plastered all over the internet) so we have known them for a while and have been patiently wondering when they were going to [...]


Softie Swap

I Won a DRAGON!!!!!! Well it feels like winning isn’t this little guy just amazing! He was crocheted by the incredibly talented Kelly from Kelgell Creations He He He I can’t get over how cute he is. She even went to the bother of finding out a little about me before choosing what she was [...]


Successful Playing

These are the kids wearing their finished Indigenous Australian inspired costumes that they designed and made themselves for a play. Lilly the sideways one is a Goanna called Googah, Eli with the sword is a crocodile called Kooria and Alanah is a kangaroo called Marloo. These costumes were for a play they were putting together [...]


Joining Things

We are joining an interactive envelope window display, cool hey! It’s another fun play along from Pip at Meet Me At Mikes my second crush in the blogging world. What you do is decorate an envelope and send it to Pip who runs Meet Me At Mikes, a shop in Melbourne. The envelopes are to [...]


What’s on your kitchen table???

just curious because mine looks like this… Alanah and Lillian are March babies the same as my sister and I, what can i say it’s just the best month ever. Also as you can imagine a very full one. The only blessing in all this March madness being that the girls love the idea of [...]