a folksy/etsy easter

just look what annis found in our garden

a pink fluffy bunny puff!!!  he (because apparently he is a he, despite all that pinkness) is utterly loved and the easter bunny who left him behind had been doing a little shopping on etsy at kitty pink stars where there are all kinds of glorious creatures

a gold rabbit provoked quite a lot of smiling too

and look!  Is that what I think it is!  A gorgeous zombie bunny bookmark from fiona t, so gorgeous we have had to order a second blue skulls one for middle boy

the boys did not want to be photographed in their pyjamas for my blog (I can't understand it) but they allowed their balaclaved bank robber eggs to be photographed instead (well one of them) they loved them and what's even better is that they are from folksy at TamaraJayne.

Ok, I know you're wondering, is that a shot glass that their eggs are sitting in?  In all the excitement of easter we didn't realise that we no longer have any egg cups, I don't know where they've gone but they are no longer in our house so we were madly running around in the early hours of Sunday seeing if boiled eggs would sit in espresso cups (they wouldn't) then Jason remembered my dad's old shot glasses... perfect and even a little bit retro.

Hope you all had a wonderful easter, with plenty of chocolate

xx

Teaching each other

Teague has just started piano lessons.  It was something he suddenly decided he wanted to do and he seems to be really focused on practicing

Annis would also like piano lessons but we can't really afford two lots at the moment so Teague has started teaching her, and he is a wonderful teacher.  More patient than me (that might not mean a lot!)  and they don't seem to bicker at all while they're learning together.

I think this is one of the nicer things about home learning.  Sharing their skills with each other seems so much more meaningful than simply showing me what they can do. 

and we don't have to pay for a second lot of piano lessons yet ;o)

Annis on gardening

i'm Annis and i'm ten years old and i'm guest blogging.

we have been doing some gardening at a friends house.

she has a BIG garden and four cats and two dogs.      

we had to move some top soil (below) down a hill in

a wheel barrow.            

                                          

we are sharing everything we grow. these are our seedlings we have

quite a lot of seedlings and are biggest is kale (eurrgh).

this is Tulouse she is sausage dog cross jack russel.

she is very friendly.

this is kitsie pitsie he's very friendly but a bit clumsy.

this our little plot and the poly tunnel with rased beds in.

flowers without gardens

Because we don't have a garden, more of a yard with lots of steps, we have to use our town parks for garden stuff.  The kids and Jason do grow food with some friends on a plot of land, but this time we wanted flowers

so this is Morrab gardens, full of beautiful flowering magnolia trees at the moment

and of course daffodils, we sketched and sketched, there are so many beautiful flowers there.

we photographed too

We feel lucky to have such a beautiful garden a five minute walk away

we did have some crocuses in a pot in our yard but they died so quickly

and I just love magnolia trees when they're flowering.  It feels like summer is on its way...

sporty days

I have never been a very sporty type, I enjoy swimming but am not too much into running around but my whole family seem to love running around.  In fact when they can't run around they do get a little stir crazy and bickery.

so, a little bit of sun over Marazion beach and

french cricket, which I think is a vicious game but the children love (perhaps because it's vicious).

I escaped lightly with a bat bashed finger but I have to admit we did have a lot of fun and we really needed a bit of outdoors, it was definitely tooooo cold to stand around.

and my inventive sport obsessed children have created a sort of table tennis court behind the sofa.  Are those library books?!!  So I am going to have to learn to love sport!  Or sit and knit on the beach once the weather's warm enough.

Falling like dominoes

that's what is happening to the peeps in our house at the moment

first one then the next then it all seems to start again.  So much coughing!!

We're all stuck in the house on sunny days driving each other mad

So I took a trip around the house 

Annis's disturbing and yet sooo cool gallery.  I wish I could paint like this I just love them

a post card from friends we miss living far away from us

Teague's strange little stage with a solitary actor

a gorgeous cake plate my nanna has given me because she doesn't really bake anymore, which is sad because my nanna's baking is part of my childhood

a lovely sandwich plate from J's mum because she had too much pottery

two pretty fairtrade glass bowls that Annis and I bought before christmas to make the table look prettier

and three men in a boat, reminding me that summer is on it's way and we won't be ill forever, even if it feels a bit like that right now. 

And now soup making is called for

first spring picnic

just when we were feeling Februaried out

the sun shone, the skies were blue, the catkins are out

at an old mine working near Godolphin

no-one was feeling up to much walking after lots of bugginess so this was perfect, a picnic just out of the car in the sunshine

french bread mozarella and avocado so we could feel the approach of summer.  Tomato soup as well because it's still a bit chilly!