Half Term Fun!

We decided to take the kids on a surprise trip back to Funland on Hayling Island over the half term week. It is only an hour and a half drive to get there so it worked perfectly! They were sooooo excited when we told them as they never stop talking about the place.

As you can see by this photo O was a little embarrassed by this ride.....maybe he found it a little babyish for a big 8 year old.

The others enjoyed it though! 

The Diva was desperate to have a go on the aeroplanes, although hers did not actually go up and down as they are supposed to!

She also found another mad young girl and the pair of them stayed on this ride for 3 turns and never stopped spinning their teacup around!!!! I felt quite ill just watching.

The Diva and A enjoyed this rather gentle ride, although it still made me feel yucky as I simply cannot stand anything that goes around.

We were so lucky this year as the Diva was above the required height for a lot of the rides and insisted that she did not need us to go on them with her!!!! Even the rollercoasters she went on her own. The weather was ok but not great.....what can you do though....we do live in England.

New Smoothie

I have found a new smoothie that I am a little hooked on at the moment....a green one!

It has a large handful of spinach, 1 banana, half can of pineapple in own juice, half can on mango and a cup of water...

I cannot believe how scrummy it is! When I showed the kids the first time I made it I said that it was Green Smoothie for pudding and they all went yuckkk.

However, when they tried it they loved it too.

It gets 4 of my 5 a day in as well in one swoop. I cannot eat that much spinach on its own so it is a great way to get some iron into me.Yum Yum....me thinks me needs to trawl the web to look for more smoothie ideas!

Other Spring Flowers.

 I love Forget-me-nots! True spring flower. I had to run out the other day as my other half had mowed half of them down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are NOT weeds!

And the Bluebells, I do believe they are the true English variety, not the Spanish bulldog ones that are taking over.

The Tulips.....we do not have many of these left after our extension, I will have to recitify this I think next year.

And the Apple Blossom, we have 3 apple trees and they are all stunning.

I love spring!

New wooden plaques

I have decided to try and make some wooden plaques as these always seem to be popular.

I particularly like the 'Smile, it confuses people' one.

I also did some Dad ones for Fathers Day. Below you can see them hanging on my dresser at the garden center. Quite a few of my magnets went as well over Easter so I will be doing a load more of them for the Summer break. I think the children buy them as teacher gifts.

10 things

10 craft related things this time! I have been sorting through my stash and found that I have huge amounts of kids paint, so there is a fair amount of that to go. Also, I have no idea why but for ages I have been saving those polstyrene pizza bases so they are going too.Also random other bits of card and paper and tissue paper.

This little lot will be delivered to the reception class at school as they get through SOOOO much paint and crafty bits with the children. The little Diva brings sacks full of crafty makes everyday! 

Dad Coasters

In half term, which is actually not that far away,..2 days, I am going to be holding a little craft session where children can pop in and design their own coasters for their dads.

These are some of the samples/ideas ones that I have made up.

I thought I would have some hearts as well in case they did not want to do a coaster or there was a family with 2 or 3 kids and they wanted different things for their fathers day gifts.

They are wooden coasters and hearts, and I simply have some wood pens that I actually came across at a bootfair for only £2 I think. So I snapped them up as they are always very expensive if you buy them new.

Lets just hope lots of kids come to make some as I have a fair few in stock. I am only charging £1.75 for each one too so it is not too expensive.

Father's Day Pints

I realise it is just over a month till Fathers Day here in the UK, but I have started early in the hope of selling lots of my Best Dad pint glasses. They are totally dishwasher proof and I also do orders locally.

As a friend said, they look a bit like the Purple Ronnie sketches that were around in the '80's. I only put them into the garden center a week ago and have already sold 3 of them so I have a feeling these will be good. I only sell them at £3.50 each to make them affordable for the children to buy out of their own money. They also go well at Christmas time so if I have any left they will go in my Christmas glass box!