Play dough

This week we made some play dough using the instructions from this video.

It's the best recipe I've ever done. The dough came out perfect but I will add that we had to juggle a little at the end with the water and the flour quantities.

If you have little ones who just want to manipulate, squidge, or at the most make a ball or a sausage, then you need to add a little more water to your dough. If you want a stiffer dough for modelling, I still found I needed to add a little more water but not quite so much.

I also found that, although the recipe is initially for four different colours, you can actually get five. The recipe calls for four cups of flour, but then you add one and a half cups of salt, mix and distribute between the four bowls. This leaves you with at least one more cup of mixture. We made purple.

Bean bags

I haven't done anything crafty in ages but this morning I found a few minutes to quickly whip up eight little bean bags. Sewn in a jiffy, they were.

Jiffy = a bit more than an hour!

If you want the pattern and very clear, simple instructions then just pop over to this web.

Just a note: when you reach the part where it explains that you "turn the fabric to the right way out, then sew the top edge in by about 1/2 inch", do this sewing over before you turn the bag the right way out. You will find it loads easier.

Oh, and by the way, I didn't use beans. I used little plastic pellets which I bought for a fair price via internet. This way the little bags can be washed.

Worth thinking about...

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Have a good weekend everybody.

Another poem

Time for T.

It's 10 o'clock

So time to stop

For a deliciously cheerful

Cup of T.

Boil the water

Choose the mug

(It has to be Pooh

If the T. is for me!)

Temptation fruits

Or acai berries.

Make T. for two,

Even better for three!

S.J.

Just over a year ago...

...I was travelling back from Barcelona, on the train. My daughter had her eyes closed and was trying to rest a little, I was looking around at my fellow passengers. I was struck once again by... Well, I suppose I must call it 'reality'. What kind of society were we living in? Some words came to mind, not because I was witness to anyone showing signs of their existence, precisely.

FEMININITY

RESPONSIBILITY

DIGNITY

POLITENESS

RESPECTFULNESS

GRACEFULNESS

SUBMISSION
DISCRETION

HUMBLENESS

KINDNESS

GENTLENESS

CAREFULNESS

ELEGANCE

HONESTY

SELFLESSNESS

 RELIABILITY
ELOQUENCE

TRUSTWORTHINESS

GENTLENESS

INDUSTRIOUS

...

As a friend said just a few days ago - we are losing the human touch. Worse - we are expected to swallow it as a sign of the times.