… is part of a quote from Chief Weasel in The Wind in The Willows (The Musical) as he plans to ‘steal back’ Toad Hall, but our properties for this show were mainly begged, borrowed and made, rather than stolen! Now the show is over and I’m packing up the props it’s nice to reflect… Continue reading All Property is Theft

Well, the adventure has come to an end.  A crazy character from Pocket Theatre was revealed each day (along with a tiny bar of Green & Black’s chocolate) popping up in this Cinderella scene: The kids and I made an appearance as our ‘Honk!’ characters, and hiding behind Day 24 was Martin in his Christmas… Continue reading Winter Wonderland

A word that seems to have been misused of late, it’s time to celebrate the snowflake! Each snowflake is unique, they say, and this year the kids and I have made some unique wrapping paper again. The boys had fun cutting out paper snowflakes. We blu-tacked them to some brown paper and sponged blue and… Continue reading Snowflakes

The advent calendar components from Crafty Christmas and Adventageous are out again on a new adventure! This time we’ve filled them with mini chocolate bars and used them to conceal a large picture stuck on the fridge with strong magnets: The picture has an interesting character behind each packet (which the kids cut out), for… Continue reading Adventurous

I borrowed this idea from my friend Jo – an eco inspiration. She crocheted her own poppy to re-use again next year, but still donating to support the British Legion. (Note: if you are wearing a regular poppy they can be recycled). She pointed me towards this great tutorial from Bella Coco I only had… Continue reading Wear Your Poppy With Pride

As well as celebrating “do or die” day on 31st October, we did manage to carve 3 pumpkins, with no Brexit in sight…. 1. A traditional spooky face designed and carved by Edward 2. William’s choice of ‘The Terrible Twos’ from Number Blocks – suitably mischievous! 3. A Wild Wood inspired pumpkin (as I’m currently… Continue reading One, two, tree

We’ve been busy with shows again lately, but even with all 4 of us performing together in a musical, the spectre of Brexit hasn’t been far from our minds! On the recent ‘super Saturday’ (that wasn’t), we performed in both a matinee and an evening performance of ‘Honk!’.  The boys were ducklings; I was a… Continue reading Scrap Brexit