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a glorious week in photos

Time for sharing :)) Before I put my craft hat back on I want to share just a handful of magic moments from my week with the Maasai in the Northern Rift Valley, Kenya. This was my second visit as part of the Become A Friend team, and I lived every second in the company [&hellip

I need a ‘Moon Hug’

I’m rendered useless tonight, too anxious over having to take Little Miss to the hospital tomorrow to have her naughty naughty tonsils removed. I’m not all that great at handling Molly being sick…. - - - - – – image via Society

final thought of the day

In these little books anything is possible

Now here’s an inspired idea – funny little story books for boys and girls of all ages…..but something is missing!!!! There’s NO pictures!!! …. for the very brilliant reason is that children are given the space to illustrate the story themselves. With their boundless imaginations every child will interpret the story in their own enviable [&hellip

Stick People – make you happy

Just 3 out of the 18 stick buddies the kids had a bit of daft giggly fun with at last weekends arts and crafts class, while I was away :) it certainly is one way of putting all those odd socks to good use….. tee hee, they loved it

mum to mum – your messages delivered

I have just returned from my second joyous visit with Maasai school children and their beautiful mums in the Northern Rift Valley, Kenya. It was another truly magical week, spent amidst the most welcoming, proud and noble people. Spending time in the company of such extraordinary people, in such challenging yet fantastical lands, is a [&hellip

Giant twig & wool spider web

Only two more sleeps to Halloween – just enough time for a final creepy craft :) Twig and wool spider webs have been big in the craft world over the past few weeks so I just had to try one too…. - ‘Mr Creepy’ is menacingly dangling to the right of the front door, above [&hellip

Fashion forward fishy wall decals

The gorgeous, quirky and playful giant decals on the walls of my arts & crafts class are non other than Pop & Lolli’s Fanciful Fishies fabric stickers. Some months back I was invited by Babatude to review something from their gorgeous online haven of unique children’s products and, being that I am a fan of [&hellip

Purdy Pumpkin Decorating

I bought two miniature pumpkins in my local shop at the weekend for simple kitchen window decorations but they didn’t last there long before Molly, attracted to all things cute!!, took them in hand and started knocking on them and listening for the reply knocks!!! The two little pumpkins then had a very pumpkin chat [&hellip

matchbox houses – awww!!

I just stumbled upon this gorgeous little paper craft idea and HAD to share it straight away!! – the most darling colouring craft by HomemadeCity. Gather up some matchboxes, visit HomemadeCity to download the mini colouring pages, and get the pritt stick ready to create a single house or terrace – so cute :) Have [&hellip

savoury cupcakes for picky eaters

And now for something completely different :) Molly is painfully picky when it comes to food, she’s actually scared of food and of trying anything new. She will eat quantity of what she likes and gets totally distressed and starts gagging if you try to introduce anything new, or even present the food she does [&hellip

Halloween Crafts #2 Costumes

Looking for an easy, super-inexpensive Halloween costume? then look no further than these super cute free downloadable Wee Society critters – fantastically frightful fox, jovial jack o’lion, hoo-hoo’ing owl and giggly gorilla – download the templates free from Wee Society Jump on to see more great DIY Costume Ideas&#

Halloween Crafts #1 – Decor

I’m getting all excited about kicking off Halloween crafting with my kids arts & crafts group this Saturday and am thinking of ways to decorate the art class studio for them to get them even more in the mood…… Here are my favourite easy decor finds for the spooky season :) Simple Spinning Spirits via [&hellip

a hat trick for mollymoo

On Saturday night last I was bowled over and super delighted to win “Best Craft Blog” at Blog Awards Ireland and then much to my surprise add two more wins for “Best Designed Blog” and “Best Personal Blog”. What the??? Wow!!! I’ve bitten all my nails!!! Thank you dearly MollyMoo readers for your friendship and [&hellip

Circus In My Pocket – matchbox template

My 9-5 has had to take over a bit for the past few weeks (I gotta eat :) so apologies for the delay in following through on my promise to share the template for my giant matchbox – featured in my latest Circus In My Pocket Craft project. click to download the matchbox templates here [&hellip

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