Magnets
Next up is an idea I got from Ingrid when I was showing her the story dice. She suggested making little block puzzles with them. I only have enough blocks at the moment for 2 different puzzles but I have more on order thanks to a little man in Tassie courtesy of Toni.
From a Miffy book
From The Taxi that Hurried
Just need to do the binding, label and hanging slip.
photo from here
We fed the ducks and did some riding amongst the rainy, cold days.
We are off again on Tuesday so I am attempting to do a couple of scheduled posts before I go. So get ready for lots of photos.
I gave it a workout today putting some snaps on a new kids satchel I am doing for Mathildas . I am going to use them on the travellers as well as I think they will be easier for little fingers than the button and elastic I put on the last lot.
So I missed yesterday but that was pretty much because I was boring. I did pick these lovely fabrics up from Corrie on Friday and we had a nice chat will our two girls played, very nicely too.
As some of you may know if you are living in Sydney or Melbourne (oops or Adelaide) daylight savings started today. Silly me turned the clocks the wrong way so when Lucy woke up at 4.15am I was trying to get her back to sleep but it was really 6.15am.
I just did a search and there seems to be a few forums where people aren't that impressed but if you are in Australia, have Foxtel and didn't watch it I'd suggest checking it out.
Looking forward to not having to rush out the door every morning, mind you I'll still be working some days with some little breaks thrown in.
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It's a lovely red colour and in fantastic condition and most importantly she loves it.
We had out annual Pink Ribbon Morning Tea at school today and I had a little stall and had a great morning.
I used the gorgeous fluffy fabric as the pocket, I just couldn't stop running my hand over it.
Then I made up some hair ties and bobby pins and a giant fluffy brooch.
Then one night I was looking at the fabric thinking about what else I could make and the circles threw up an idea. I decided to make a bean bag throwing game. I then backed the circles with calico and filled them with rice. I wanted to make some sort of target for the game so before I sewed up the circles I scanned them in to the computer. 
Then I printed them on to tshirt transfer paper. I cut a large circle from calico and ironed the printed circles on, then I backed that with some fabric from Ikea. I wanted to make the target into a bag to hold the rice filled bags. After some discussions with a few people I ended up putting buttonholes in the edges and threading twill through it. It pulls up into a bag. 
I'm really happy with how it turned out and I have a few changes in mind but I think these might make an appearance at Mathildas in November. The girls tried it out today for me. 
I think there are heaps of options with this, you could use it for colour recognition, counting or just for fun
And when you've finished throw it over your shoulder and off you go.
At first I was going to paint a base colour on them and then either paint or stamp a picture on each side. Then of course after waiting all this time I was in a hurry to make them so I decided to use vintage storybooks. 
I used pages with words as the base and then stuck the main picture over the top. I mod podged over the whole thing to seal it and filed the corners and edges.
Happy Birthday Jeff 
