Yesterday, Nic decided to take Ada to the swing park for an hour before her Mum came for her. Toddling accross to the playground corner of the park took ages as Ada decided to traverse this bit backwards and looking up to the sky. Fortunately, the park was relatively empty, any children having gone off for their tea!
So having got to the swing park, Mrs Janocky says, quite sensibly, 'Can't go on slide Gandad - s'wet....' and so it was. It had been raining a little earlier. She proclaimed the same about the little roundabout but decided to chance the swing and the see-saw as 'Gandad' had his hanky with him!
So they toddled, backwards again, home across the now all but empty park, the clouds starting to glower a bit when, suddenly, our little heroine stops dead and, head on one side and two little fingers pointing like a gun she says, 'I've got 'n'idea!' ....'Pick fowers for Nanny!' and I got half a dozen squashed little daisies which will appear, in all probablility, as shrivelled little 'spiders' in one of my projects!
You couldn't make it up.....
Hugs,
Ei
x
Thursday 27 May 2010
Sunday 23 May 2010
....I'm not immune either.......
Oh my goodness!I can't believe what I've just done - I think I must be ready for the funny farm!
Yesterday, I got two lovely chickens at a very reasonable price so split one for the barbecue we had for the kids yesterday and the other, I roasted in my Halogen oven (fab way of doing them!) which saves all the juices.
As usual, I saved the carcasses and skin etc and today boiled them up with the juices from the halogen, a few roughly chopped bits of past their best greens out of the fridge (onion, parsnip, carrots peppers) and a few bits of prunings of my woodier herbs (rosemary, lemon balm).
The smell was heavenly! I thought I could make soup with half and freeze half as stock.
So, in the middle of watching a film in my craft-room (making a card of course...!), I popped down to the pressure-cooker, and switched it off and got all the equipment out - it's a messy procedure mashing the mush - then in the next break I went down to seive it off.
I took the pressure cooker to the draining-board to open it (it sometimes 'rushes' over the sides when you open it) and then promptly seived the lot down the sink and 'saved' the mush!
Someone please tell me that you've done this too......
Worried hugs,
Ei
x
Yesterday, I got two lovely chickens at a very reasonable price so split one for the barbecue we had for the kids yesterday and the other, I roasted in my Halogen oven (fab way of doing them!) which saves all the juices.
As usual, I saved the carcasses and skin etc and today boiled them up with the juices from the halogen, a few roughly chopped bits of past their best greens out of the fridge (onion, parsnip, carrots peppers) and a few bits of prunings of my woodier herbs (rosemary, lemon balm).
The smell was heavenly! I thought I could make soup with half and freeze half as stock.
So, in the middle of watching a film in my craft-room (making a card of course...!), I popped down to the pressure-cooker, and switched it off and got all the equipment out - it's a messy procedure mashing the mush - then in the next break I went down to seive it off.
I took the pressure cooker to the draining-board to open it (it sometimes 'rushes' over the sides when you open it) and then promptly seived the lot down the sink and 'saved' the mush!
Someone please tell me that you've done this too......
Worried hugs,
Ei
x
Saturday 22 May 2010
Nic's not perfect either (although he thinks he is...!)...
My memory was jogged by something this week which reminded me of a time we were decorating ....ooooh...it must be nearly thirty years ago now...!
Just to give a bit of background, Nic's a very private person...(Hi darling, you're on the web...!) and our houses since we were married, have been barricaded off from the outside world by layers of net curtains, lining curtains, big curtains etc. etc. because my gorgeous Hubby has it in his head that the world's Paperazzi have their telephoto lenses trained on that spot where the curtains just part company a little and there's a teeny tiny chink...!
He's quite obsessive about it and God forbid I should switch on a light before closing the curtains! You'd think we were still at war! 'People can look in!' is his warning!
Well, clearly when you decorate, all curtains must come down or be ruined and on this occasion, the pole had come down too, but Nic's fertile imagination had gone to work and he got up and fixed a curtain so it was tucked into the brackets that hold the pole up.
It was an elaborate affair with bits of other items tied around the brackets to secure the curtain.
'You can put the light on now,' I was told, so I dutifully put on the centre light as the lamps had been put away.
So we effected our night-time toilet routine and I was in bed reading when Nic got undressed.
It wasn't a big bedroom and the furniture was in strange positions because of the decorating, so there wasn't much room on either side of the bed.
Nic undresses from the feet up so the last thing to come off is his shirt. He stood up and pulled the shirt open, as you do and just as his arms were fully outstretched before he slid it from his shoulders, he must have caught the curtain in it's elaborate fixings.
They weren't elaborate enough, because the whole thing fell down, leaving him stark naked, arms wide open, right in front of the window with a light bulb shining above his head!
Any neighbours watching wouldn't have known whether to call the police or a priest.......
Hugs,
Ei
x
Just to give a bit of background, Nic's a very private person...(Hi darling, you're on the web...!) and our houses since we were married, have been barricaded off from the outside world by layers of net curtains, lining curtains, big curtains etc. etc. because my gorgeous Hubby has it in his head that the world's Paperazzi have their telephoto lenses trained on that spot where the curtains just part company a little and there's a teeny tiny chink...!
He's quite obsessive about it and God forbid I should switch on a light before closing the curtains! You'd think we were still at war! 'People can look in!' is his warning!
Well, clearly when you decorate, all curtains must come down or be ruined and on this occasion, the pole had come down too, but Nic's fertile imagination had gone to work and he got up and fixed a curtain so it was tucked into the brackets that hold the pole up.
It was an elaborate affair with bits of other items tied around the brackets to secure the curtain.
'You can put the light on now,' I was told, so I dutifully put on the centre light as the lamps had been put away.
So we effected our night-time toilet routine and I was in bed reading when Nic got undressed.
It wasn't a big bedroom and the furniture was in strange positions because of the decorating, so there wasn't much room on either side of the bed.
Nic undresses from the feet up so the last thing to come off is his shirt. He stood up and pulled the shirt open, as you do and just as his arms were fully outstretched before he slid it from his shoulders, he must have caught the curtain in it's elaborate fixings.
They weren't elaborate enough, because the whole thing fell down, leaving him stark naked, arms wide open, right in front of the window with a light bulb shining above his head!
Any neighbours watching wouldn't have known whether to call the police or a priest.......
Hugs,
Ei
x
Saturday 15 May 2010
Ada's Craft Tutorial
My Ada just LOVES crafting!
Every day she asks to do 'stampy, Nanny!'....!
She's amazingly good at it too!
Now, she is only two....I'm not saying she's re-creating the Sistine Chapel, but she can handle the equipment as well as, and shows the diligence of many an adult crafter! Well, why am I telling you this when I can show you?
Ada's Crafting Hour
by Nanny
Now, I shall say this only once, so pay attention...
I'll begin with the green pen.....
Yes, these tops are quite easy to get off....
It's most important you clean your fingers regularly....
I really like this orange pen too....Sakura are SUCH a good make...
....a bit of red marker now.....
Now for my favourite...STAMPY NANNY....!
Hmmmm.........
Oh yes...lickle yellow ducky - I like him...!
...I'll just make sure this is pressed well down....
...now for the elephant......
...hmmmm...this seems to be going quite well....
I like the stamp to pad technique best.....
...It's less messy......
Love this bunny stamp.......
...that's enough bunnies for now
....now for some brayering....
....and these pads are quite good......
......transverse brayering....
...and a bit of DTP technique....
....Brayering with glitter glue.....
....nice wormie of glitter glue there....
Just giving my roller a good clean.....
Now for some bling...I DO so love bling.....
.........plenty of green glitter.........
Okay, that's the glitter stuck on, although quite a lot drops off too...!
Now for some SERIOUS bling... Oh I can't see everything in here...!
Blow it, I'll just tip it out.....
...That's better...!
I like this one...! ....Ooooh a butterfly!
I really like this punch - I use it all the time....
.....butterflies again.........
.....where is it...?
Now I clean my stamps .......
..................they last much longer that way...!
Here's one I prepared earlier......
....not one of my better ones....... ...............though the perspective's good.....
...I made this one for you Granddad!
...........................Happy Birthday...!
It's a masterpiece!
Is she cute or what...?!
Hugs
Ei
x
Every day she asks to do 'stampy, Nanny!'....!
She's amazingly good at it too!
Now, she is only two....I'm not saying she's re-creating the Sistine Chapel, but she can handle the equipment as well as, and shows the diligence of many an adult crafter! Well, why am I telling you this when I can show you?
Ada's Crafting Hour
by Nanny
Now, I shall say this only once, so pay attention...
I'll begin with the green pen.....
Yes, these tops are quite easy to get off....
It's most important you clean your fingers regularly....
I really like this orange pen too....Sakura are SUCH a good make...
....a bit of red marker now.....
Now for my favourite...STAMPY NANNY....!
Hmmmm.........
Oh yes...lickle yellow ducky - I like him...!
...I'll just make sure this is pressed well down....
...now for the elephant......
...hmmmm...this seems to be going quite well....
I like the stamp to pad technique best.....
...It's less messy......
Love this bunny stamp.......
...that's enough bunnies for now ....now for some brayering....
....and these pads are quite good......
......transverse brayering....
...and a bit of DTP technique....
....Brayering with glitter glue.....
....nice wormie of glitter glue there....
Just giving my roller a good clean.....
Now for some bling...I DO so love bling.....
.........plenty of green glitter.........
Okay, that's the glitter stuck on, although quite a lot drops off too...!
Now for some SERIOUS bling... Oh I can't see everything in here...!
Blow it, I'll just tip it out.....
...That's better...!
I like this one...! ....Ooooh a butterfly!I really like this punch - I use it all the time....
.....butterflies again.........
.....where is it...?
Now I clean my stamps .......
..................they last much longer that way...! 
Here's one I prepared earlier......
....not one of my better ones....... ...............though the perspective's good.....
...I made this one for you Granddad!
...........................Happy Birthday...!
It's a masterpiece!Is she cute or what...?!
Hugs
Ei
x
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