Mud Pies and Marmalade: Creative

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My Newest Obsession

It's a virtual pinboard for collecting gorgeous pictures for projects such as decorating your home or planning your wedding. It frees up space on your hard drive- that's got to be good. "It's just for birds," according to my husband - I think he's right! Either way, I don't care, it feeds my need for order and organization and makes me want to lead a more creative life! I keep finding things that inspire me- things I want to make and things I want to cook. So far I have created several boards for things I am currently obsessed with- e.g Bento Boxes and Girls' Bedrooms and then found 'warm and fuzzy' pictures to 'pin' onto my boards! I have uploaded or 'pinned' one or two of my own pictures and you can pin photos from anywhere on the net too. Other people can view your boards and follow you and vice versa. You can request to join and then you are accepted by invitation! As a member, you can then invite your friends.

Here's a tutorial on how to use it - The Weekend Homemaker.

Salt Dough Beads

Mo Mo loves rumaging through my bead drawer and trying on all my necklaces. So we decided to make our own salt dough beads.

First we made the dough:

300g plain flour

300g salt

1 tblsp veg oil

200ml water

Mix the flour, salt and oil and then add the water until a soft dough is formed.

Sprinkle flour on the table, roll out your dough and create!

Pull of little bits of dough and roll into bead shapes. Use a kebab skewer to poke holes in your beads.

Or poke your dough with lots of holes to make lovely patterns!

Put your creations on greaseproof paper and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Let your beads cool.

Get painting! We used acrylic paints.

Once the paint had dried, Mo Mo threaded her beads...

... to make a beautiful necklace and bracelet (to match the Mermaid outifit!)

Weekly Wishlist

Teacher friends- you cannot help but be inspired by this lot!

A fantastic Pre-school setting at Casa Maria's. I would love my kids to attend a Waldorf- inspired nursery like this.