January 6th 2015 - beef casserole
As its cold outside I decided to do a beef casserole in the slow cooker for tea. All seemed good until I opened the bag of diced casserole beef (from supermarket) to find that most of it was fatty! I'm hoping that with what I salvaged from the bag along with the tray I also had in freezer is enough to feed us all for tea. I can safely say I wont be buying the stew pack beef again. The idea for todays pin came from here.
I don't follow a recipe I just throw it all in. Into the pot has gone diced beef, diced potatoes, sliced carrots, beef gravy, beef casserole powder, an oxo cube, regea regea sauce and worcestershire sauce. smells lovely and usually tastes lovely. I will addd a pic once its cooked!
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Monday, 5 January 2015
January 5th 2015 - dice
January 5th 2015 - dice
Today peace and quite has resumed in the house as 2/3 kids are back at school and the other 1 is on his computer. I have painted the last part of the wall in the boys bedroom (eldest son helped by doing the top and painting the ceiling blue as he went grrrr! never mind!) and I have done todays pin.
I have made a sealed pot dice for in the car. The original idea came from here and was so dice didnt fly across the room. But my boys have asked if they can have the snowman game from the other day in the car, so that will be being laminated and put in a folder with other similar bits.
Today peace and quite has resumed in the house as 2/3 kids are back at school and the other 1 is on his computer. I have painted the last part of the wall in the boys bedroom (eldest son helped by doing the top and painting the ceiling blue as he went grrrr! never mind!) and I have done todays pin.
I have made a sealed pot dice for in the car. The original idea came from here and was so dice didnt fly across the room. But my boys have asked if they can have the snowman game from the other day in the car, so that will be being laminated and put in a folder with other similar bits.
Sunday, 4 January 2015
January 4th 2015 - race game
4th Janury 2015 - race game
Little man was saying he was bored so I decided to do today's pin as another game for him. I have various things like it pinned to my board "ideas for the kids to do". The original pin can be found here. Our version was slightly different and probably took longer as we used buttons!
The idea was a race to fill your cup by rolling a dice and adding that many objects to it. Little man won (but i'm sure he was cheating and adding more buttons than what the dice said.) It also helped him with his counting and he even counted some of them out in french and spanish!
He enjoyed it and asked if we could play again, but as it was dinner time we had to put them away. But it will certainly be a game we will do again, maybe with lego bricks so it doesn't take as long!
Little man was saying he was bored so I decided to do today's pin as another game for him. I have various things like it pinned to my board "ideas for the kids to do". The original pin can be found here. Our version was slightly different and probably took longer as we used buttons!
The idea was a race to fill your cup by rolling a dice and adding that many objects to it. Little man won (but i'm sure he was cheating and adding more buttons than what the dice said.) It also helped him with his counting and he even counted some of them out in french and spanish!
Saturday, 3 January 2015
January 3rd 2015 - Happy Birthday to me......
January 3rd 2015 - My Birthday
EVEN google knows its my birthday today as it has cakes and candles on it!!!
I have opened my presents, and the cake is cooking, the drinks will flow later with hubby and a friend.
For todays pin I picked a purple ombre layer cake off pinterest, now I know mine wont be as good as the original purple ombre cake see link, but it is what gave me the idea. See my pics later once its cooked, iced and then cut.
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I have opened my presents, and the cake is cooking, the drinks will flow later with hubby and a friend.
For todays pin I picked a purple ombre layer cake off pinterest, now I know mine wont be as good as the original purple ombre cake see link, but it is what gave me the idea. See my pics later once its cooked, iced and then cut.
Here is the cake uncut, 3 different colour layers. I dont dare add more buttercream to cover the outside as there is loads between each layer! cant wait for a slice after lunch.
Friday, 2 January 2015
January 2nd 2015 - Do you wana build a snowman???
January 2nd 2015 - Day 2 of 365 challenge
Do you wana build a snowman??? Sadly we have no real snow to do one, but I found this dice and drawing game and printed it out. Me and the boys had fun for about 45mins playing it. The pic shows a couple of our snowmen pictures. I think I may laminate the game and put in a folder to start a games folder of easy things they can do in the car.
Do you wana build a snowman??? Sadly we have no real snow to do one, but I found this dice and drawing game and printed it out. Me and the boys had fun for about 45mins playing it. The pic shows a couple of our snowmen pictures. I think I may laminate the game and put in a folder to start a games folder of easy things they can do in the car.
Thursday, 1 January 2015
January 1st 2015 - 2015 happy new year
January 1st 2015
365 challenge - pinterest link
During 2014, myself and my friend Coralie decided that in 2015 we were going to do the 365 pinterest challenge, whereby you actually do 1 of the things you have pinned NOT just pin them or pin more. I will be adding pics and things as I do them.
As it stands at pressent I have 2 pinterest accounts, 1 of which I use for things linked to St John Ambulance and cadet courses/subjects, and a personal account that I have things that "may be useful" or "we will have to try that" and "things to do with the kids" to name a few.
From the 2 accounts I have a total of 121 boards (58 of these are linked to the SJA courses), and on these 121 boards I have 7,016pins (681 are on SJA). Some of those on my personal account are already in a board named challenge and completed - a total if 19! This means that I have 6,316pins of which I aim to do 365 - 1 a day for 2015, sounds right? We will see!
JANUARY 1st 2015
Today, 1st January 2015, we as a family started to make the time capsule that we are going to leave in the loft, we have most things in it and will seal it tomorrow, which is when I will add a pic to here.
We discussed a few days ago what we could put in it and said we should have decided earlier as we would have had more things to go in it. But never mind. We have:
*a letter explaining who we are and why we have made it
*a photo of us all and of our pets and our house and garden
*a toy car
*a miniture bottle of baileys (I have surrendered it!)
*a drinks bottle lable
*a chewy bar box
*1 of each UK coin
*a tesco receipt showing the cost of party food for new years eve
*a bus ticket
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
UV/Glow in the dark party
My eldest son asked for a UV/Glow in the dark party for his 12th birthday. Now for most people this would have been a major panic, not for me though. That's because 2years ago myself and a friend had planned to have one of these, sadly it didn'y happen as her husband was taken ill, but I did still have everything that we had bought in readiness for it - everything from paint to paper, straws to lights.
I had loads of ideas on a Pinterest board about UV and Glow in the dark. This was a great help and gave me lots of ideas. We hunted for an invite we liked but couldn't find one so we made our own, along with an instruction card -
These were printed out on paper, they would have been better had we been able to print in really bright colours, but never mind. Son's friends all thought they looked good.
As soon as son said this is what he wanted for his birthday we set about how we could decorate the house (yes we were hosting it at home!) Well as loom bands were a big thing and they had a few that were glow in the dark I thought I would try them under the UV blacklight, they worked. So when I next went to town I bought a handful of glow in the dark and UV reactive loom bands, I also contacted a friend that had them in her shop and she sent me loads (I paid her for them). And we set about making chains and adding neon triangles to some of them.
We also had a play about with the UV face paints that we had to see what effects we could get. They were pretty good and I did gets loads of comments from friends on facebook.
Big thick lines and patterns didn't look as good as thinner ones, and as with the star above the colours do mix and blend into each other.
We painted a sheet with neon paint and I was really pleased with how that looked, and we painted white canvas's as they were spare (i'll explain further down).
Next to the canvas is a giant glow stick and a pringles tube painted black and then painted patterns with the neon paint. Also pictured above is the shot glass sphere that is only half as I never finished it. The shot glasses were the neon ones from £1 shop all glued together (see below).
We also had glow sticks made into balls, and glowsticks scattered all about the house to glow.
As far as I am aware that is all of the decorations sorted and included on here.
For the party bags I bought clear celophane bags (son asked why no fancy party bags) and as I explained to him, being clear the UV light would work with what was going in them. They had sherbert straws (£1 shop for 48), they had a glow in dark tattoo, a yellow stretchy man (glows under uv light), a bag of tic-tacs and nerds (mixed in clear bag) and a rubber stretchy ball thing. All of which glowed under the light.
Lastly was the canvas - I bought an A3 blank canvas and had some UV and neon pens. The idea was that everyone wrote the birthday boy a message in the pens and they would glow under the UV lights. Everyone did write messages and it looked great under the lights. These were a pack of 3 with 2 smaller ones that we just painted.
We started off the party with the normal lights on and no UV blacklights or disco lights on. Once everyone had arrived and had got facepaints if they wanted it, neon moustaches, glow loombands and glow sticks and glow necklaces we turned on the disco lights only and main lights off, then me and hubby turned on all the UV black lights and all you could hear was "WOW" and "OMG i'm glowing" and "This is wicked" from son's friends. My mission was complete and a success!!!
I had a few games organised which we did, I can't post photos of them as they have otehr peoples children in. But the first we did was "Pass the camera". Think along the lines of pass the parcel, except when the music stopped they were meant to take a photo of themselves (camera was set to party without flash). Well they were taking them of each other. We have heads cut off, part heads, part of my lounge etc, but all have made for good keep sakes for son.
We also played pass the parcel, in which there was forefits written on neon stars so they showed up under the UV lights. Then we played the "Glow stick toss" game. I had made a game board from a white shower curtain, cut shapes out and edged them with tape and then glow in dark tape so they could be seen and fixed it to my washing line pole and a pole across, I taped carrier bags to the back to catch the glow sticks. (see below). Each shape gave the person a differnt amount of points if the glow stick landed in it. They had 10 glowsticks each.
Lastly I had 4 coloured glass bottles that had a glow stick inside, using the glow sticks from the glow toss game I made them into circles and they had a game of glow stick hoopla.
Prizes for games included glow axes (25p in the works sale), flashing glow necklaces (59p each from home bargains) and a tub of glow sticks (69p from home bargains). For food we had normal party food as I couldn't be doing with trying to find foods that glow, and some that I found online as meant to didn't. His cake was also meant to glow as the icing was made with neon food colours but sadly it wasn't brilliant, so I stuck glow sticks in it!
Everyone had a great time and here is a few pics of my sons.
I had loads of ideas on a Pinterest board about UV and Glow in the dark. This was a great help and gave me lots of ideas. We hunted for an invite we liked but couldn't find one so we made our own, along with an instruction card -
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| invite |
These were printed out on paper, they would have been better had we been able to print in really bright colours, but never mind. Son's friends all thought they looked good.
As soon as son said this is what he wanted for his birthday we set about how we could decorate the house (yes we were hosting it at home!) Well as loom bands were a big thing and they had a few that were glow in the dark I thought I would try them under the UV blacklight, they worked. So when I next went to town I bought a handful of glow in the dark and UV reactive loom bands, I also contacted a friend that had them in her shop and she sent me loads (I paid her for them). And we set about making chains and adding neon triangles to some of them.
We also had a play about with the UV face paints that we had to see what effects we could get. They were pretty good and I did gets loads of comments from friends on facebook.
Big thick lines and patterns didn't look as good as thinner ones, and as with the star above the colours do mix and blend into each other.
We painted a sheet with neon paint and I was really pleased with how that looked, and we painted white canvas's as they were spare (i'll explain further down).
Next to the canvas is a giant glow stick and a pringles tube painted black and then painted patterns with the neon paint. Also pictured above is the shot glass sphere that is only half as I never finished it. The shot glasses were the neon ones from £1 shop all glued together (see below).
We also had glow sticks made into balls, and glowsticks scattered all about the house to glow.
As far as I am aware that is all of the decorations sorted and included on here.
For the party bags I bought clear celophane bags (son asked why no fancy party bags) and as I explained to him, being clear the UV light would work with what was going in them. They had sherbert straws (£1 shop for 48), they had a glow in dark tattoo, a yellow stretchy man (glows under uv light), a bag of tic-tacs and nerds (mixed in clear bag) and a rubber stretchy ball thing. All of which glowed under the light.
Lastly was the canvas - I bought an A3 blank canvas and had some UV and neon pens. The idea was that everyone wrote the birthday boy a message in the pens and they would glow under the UV lights. Everyone did write messages and it looked great under the lights. These were a pack of 3 with 2 smaller ones that we just painted.
I had a few games organised which we did, I can't post photos of them as they have otehr peoples children in. But the first we did was "Pass the camera". Think along the lines of pass the parcel, except when the music stopped they were meant to take a photo of themselves (camera was set to party without flash). Well they were taking them of each other. We have heads cut off, part heads, part of my lounge etc, but all have made for good keep sakes for son.
We also played pass the parcel, in which there was forefits written on neon stars so they showed up under the UV lights. Then we played the "Glow stick toss" game. I had made a game board from a white shower curtain, cut shapes out and edged them with tape and then glow in dark tape so they could be seen and fixed it to my washing line pole and a pole across, I taped carrier bags to the back to catch the glow sticks. (see below). Each shape gave the person a differnt amount of points if the glow stick landed in it. They had 10 glowsticks each.
Prizes for games included glow axes (25p in the works sale), flashing glow necklaces (59p each from home bargains) and a tub of glow sticks (69p from home bargains). For food we had normal party food as I couldn't be doing with trying to find foods that glow, and some that I found online as meant to didn't. His cake was also meant to glow as the icing was made with neon food colours but sadly it wasn't brilliant, so I stuck glow sticks in it!
Everyone had a great time and here is a few pics of my sons.
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| the birthday boy |
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| the birthday boy |
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| his cards under the uv light |
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| his youngest brother |
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| his youngest brother |
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| middle brother |
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| middle brother |
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