As W is getting bigger he is enjoying helping out in the kitchen more and more and is becoming more confident the more we make things together. This week we had fun making these quick and simple tasty tuna fishcakes. For this you will need: One tin of tuna. One spring onion One slice of bread. Few sprigs of parsley Black pepper One tbsp ketchup Half tbsp mayonnaise Olive oil First place your tuna in a mixing bowl. W had great fun spooning it from a smaller bowl into the larger mixing bowl which is good gross motor practice and gave me time to trim and chop up the ...
How to Make a Cotbed Quilt for Beginners, Step 9: Binding Your Quilt
With all the quilting completed it is time for the final step, binding your quilt. Before we tackle our binding fabric it is time to tidy up the quilt. Using your ruler, cutting mat and rotary cutter carefully remove all the excess batting and backing fabric from your quilt. Next cut your binding strips. You will need four strips measuring 2.5" wide and the length will be approximately 42", or whatever the width of the fabric you ordered. Trim the selvage edges of each strip. Now take two of your strips, place right sides together and align one edge. Pin and then bring this to your ...
Silent Sunday: 07/04/2013
...
Toilet Roll Craft: Farm Animals
W and I love to visit our local city farm and in spring and summer we head there usually at least once a week. With all the cold and wet weather recently though we have not been able to visit for a while. To keep ourselves amused whilst stuck indoors we decided to have a go at making some of the animals that we visit from old toilet paper roll tubes. Our first attempt was a pig. Here is how we did it. Toilet Roll Pig: First we painted a toilet roll tube with Mod Podge glue and then stuck on small scraps of pink tissue paper until fully covered, painting down any rough edges with more ...
Colour Matching for Toddlers
W is now pretty happy identifying most colours and one of the games which I found helped with this is as simple as can be. He just loves to play with OXO cubes! Once he has finished eating I will often grab the boxes from the cupboard, red, yellow and green, and place them in front of him. We will then tip them all out, his favourite part... ...and I will encourage him to put them back into the right coloured box. He is quite happy to to do this over and over, tipping them out, and re-sorting into appropriate boxes... ...even building towers with them. This also allows me time ...
How to Make a Cotbed Quilt for Beginners, Step 7: Layering and Basting Your Quilt.
Now that we have added our borders and the front of our quilt is complete it is time to start putting all the layers together. First I would strongly recommend that you iron both the backing material and the front of your quilt so that both can be laid nice and flat. Next lay out your backing material, right side face down, on a flat hard surface. If you have a wooden or tiled floor this would be ideal. I had to make do on the carpet. Smooth out any creases to make sure that it is flat and then secure the edges to the floor with masking tape. Now, roll out your batting on top of the ...
Silent Sunday: 17/03/13
...
Silent Sunday: 10/03/2013
...
How to make a Cotbed Quilt for Beginners, Step 6: Rotary Cutting and Adding Your Borders
Now it is time to cut the fabric strips for the borders of our quilt. If you began with a charm pack of fabric squares for the front of your quilt this may be your first time cutting fabric with a rotary cutter. I was terrified at first but if you just follow a few simple steps it really is as easy as can be. Before you begin cutting off strips make sure your fabric is folded squarely. This may well mean re-ironing the center fold when folded in half width-ways so it is time to get the iron out again...sorry. It is also a good idea to iron your quilt out flat at this stage too. Align ...
Prize Draw: Luxurious Revive Body Butter (RRP £20) from Hotel Chocolat
I was delighted when the lovely folks at Hotel Chocolat sent me this luxurious Cocoa Juvenate Revive Body Butter to review. You just know it is going to be good when even the packaging exudes elegance. I had such a busy day running about with the boy yesterday, we even spent 40 minutes just going up and down the escalators/magic-stairs in House of Fraser while we waited for Daddy to finish work, and by the time we got in I was feeling pretty exhausted. Once he was safely off to sleep I decide to have a bath and then give this product a whirl. I had been looking forward to trying it ...
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- …
- 28
- Next Page »