Scatterday L - Week 30

Dear Miss Michelle,

I'm very sorry my Scatterday homework is late. I've been very busy. I will try to do better in future.

Household item - Ladle

Things that are round - Light

Tool - Loop turner

More beautiful flowers

I've been thoroughly spoilt again - but this time I know where they came from! I did a small favour for some friends, and this morning a beautiful bunch of lilies and roses arrived. Thank you so much, girls.

March Garden

Happy Birthday, Moo!

Our darling friend, Moo, has reached a Significant Birthday (though you'd never know it!) She's a generous and caring friend, an unstoppable gadabout and wonderful hostess, and a marvellous role-model for her adoring grandchildren. It's a little late, but I want to wish you a very Happy Birthday, Moo!

And the Winner is....

Drumroll....................


Studio Christine! I'll be in touch with you by email, Christine, to find out your snail mail address, and will be popping a fat quarter of one of my favourite Moda fabrics in the mail to you.



Thank you all for giving me such fun (but rather too much stress trying to choose a winner!) and entering my very first blog competition. Have a look at all the entries in the comment box for "Life's Little Mysteries #1"

Life's Little Mysteries #1 - Competition results

Quality, rather than quantity, was the best way to describe this competition's entries, as a handful of keen blog-buddies exercised their imaginations to suggest how a huge bunch of fresh lillies came to be dumped over my front fence last week.



Suggestions were varied - jilted lovers, a shy suitor, God, and the Easter Froggy! All made me smile, and I found it impossible to choose the best. So I felt it was fairest to decide the winner by a draw.



I wrote the names of every entrant on a card, and popped them into a shopping bag.







Then I asked my favourite barrel-girl to draw a card out of the bag. As you can see, she took her responsibility quite seriously.

(It's all in the way you hold your mouth)

Can you see whose name is on the card?

As exciting as....

...watching grass grow!



Last Sunday in creche we were talking about how God makes us grow, and I came up with this simple but fun craft idea.
The children and I made these grasshead faces on plastic disposable plates.
I drew faces on their plates with a felt pen. Then we snipped some of those little circular make-up remover pads in half, placed the halves around the top of the plate where the hair would be, poured a little water on, just enough to dampen the cotton wool, and sprinkled grass seeds over.
Then they took them home with instructions to place the plate on a sunny window sill and water it a little every day.

Tiny green shoots appeared on Wednesday, and this is what mine looked like by today - lovely long spiky green "hair".