This moment

{THIS MOMENT}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see
 
this post was inspired by soulemama. if you are inspired, leave a comment with you moment below, and swing over to her blog for a look

crafting day

I spent most of today at the Royal Engineers museum, where I have been on placement at recently. Today I was mostly getting the room ready for the special children's event that is happening over the weekend. They are having a Chinese New Year craft workshop. Which I am now running.

So today I have made Chinese lanterns and strung them up all around the room we will be using, as well as egg box dragons. I am hoping to get some Photographs f the work I have done over the weekend. As the larger dragons will be hung on the ceiling for me tomorrow afternoon, whilst I am at uni. They couldn't be hung up today as there is a grown up function in the room tomorrow morning and they didn't want too much of the children's bits up. I don't see why not I think the room looks much more interesting with the decorations.

I'm a very proud Mummy tonight as Dylan won the Ju-jitsu club trophy for trying hard, and helping others where possible.

forward planning

I realised tonight that I need to start planning my veg garden. I bought seeds in September/ October last year ready for spring planting.

So tonight I thought I had better start the planning;

I found that quite a few of the seeds should have been planted last month (aubergine, leek, tomatoes) and lots more need planting this month. Now most of them need planting on window ledges so I need to start thinking where these window ledges are going to appear from! I don't have too much empty window ledge space. So as well as thinking about how to plant the garden this year, I also need to organise the window ledges....

new life

I have learnt how to do lots of new things in the past 9 months, I can now put up shelves/ cabinets, I have dug over the garden and grown vegetables, built a trampoline but the skill I have learnt and used to do is how to take cuttings from existing plants. I learnt this from my friends mum.

This is Stephanie's new plant, she painted the pot, it was a Christmas present she received, and she helped to take the cutting and set it on the window ledge until we could replant it. She is so very proud of this plant, she is particularly impressed with the pink flowers, she ran straight up to her room with it to put it on her window ledge.

mmm cake..........

It has been ages since I last made cake, quite possibly Christmas. So today to distract myself from what I should have been doing I made cake;

I think I made too much icing, but don't think there will be any complaints :-)
There were a few questions from the children when they got home
1. is that for my birthday? - no dear your birthday is not for 2 and a 1/2 months.
2. why isn't it chocolate flavoured?
3. can we have it now?
4. why not?
5. not even a small taste?

you get the picture, right??

repurposed comfort

I have been busy today making some new comfort items for the lounge. Well OK they took 45 Min's each max but you get the point.

They are made from some old table clothes that I was given, they used to go on the children's Nans coffee tables (which I also acquired). However I did not want coffee tablecloths in my lounge so I made these instead;

They are fab! The photo is not a very good one, I really need to learn to take decent shots. Still that is one less item on my to sew list for the year (well unless I find the third cloth I'm very certain exists in my airing cupboard!)

decisions, decisions

Today my fabric swatches came, remember the ones I ordered Monday. They were from Terrys fabrics I'm very impressed with the super fast delivery and the fabric swatches themselves, now I just need to decide which to use!

I'm thinking either the stripy one, or the one with the pale background and green flower outline for the kitchen.

The lighter of the suede reds for Dylan's bedroom (I do need to check with him first) and the pink princessy one for Stephanie's bedroom.

So the decisions to be made are;

1. strips/flower for dining room

2. light/dark red suede for Dylan

3. Which do I order first?

I also realised my error on my Monday blog post, I said on item number 3) I hadn't made any furnishings for the house last month, which is actually untrue. I forgot I had made net curtains for the hall and the living room!