July 17tth 2015 - camp fire lantern

July 17th 2015 - Campfire lantern

I found a lovely battery LED campfire lantern in b&m today, so I bought it, it has various light settings on it and looks really pretty.

Plus today I have done a trial run on making a camp lantern as a craft for the Badgers day camp.  I bought a plastic tub with lid from £1 shop, I already had red, yellow and orange tissue paper at home as well as battery tea lights and glow sticks.

I cut flame shapes out of  the tissue paper and glued them to the plastic tub and covered over them with glue to seal them in place.  I added a fake tea light to the inside of it and placed the lid back on.

I think it will work really well for the kids to make.

July 16th 2015 - Kitten

July 16th 2015 - Kitten

So today my friend sent me another pic of her kitten that I am having off her.  I commented about how cute she is and I can't wait to get her.  My friend said that Mum isn't really bothered by them and is isn't feeding them and just getting fed up of them, the kittens are litter trained, eating solid food and on kitten milk so if I want her early I can.

So I went and got her today.  We have named her Starla, she is gorgeous!  She is still really tiny and very playful.  She has taken a feather and a puff ball from the craft box and is playing with them, as well as a small rubber "spikey" ball and an empty drinks bottle.  She has also chased the laser light round the room.

I introduced her to Flame our eldest cat, Flame hissed and spat at Starla, Starla just bounced towards her!  This has happened 2 or 3 times, but it was expected.  Willow our other cat came towards kitten, Starla moved and Willow ran out of the room with the kitten hot on her heels. LOL!  I'm sure they will all get on, they are going to have to as all live here.

She has curled up beside meon the sofa and gone to sleep.  She was sat up but as she got into deeper sleep slid over,so she is now laying down.  My boys are really happy that we have her and all thinks shes lovely.

July 15th 2015 - Watermelon sticks

July 15th 2015 - Watermelon sticks

My boys love watermelon!  Well they love most fruit which is good.  Yesterday when I went shopping aldi had watermelons in again, not had for a while so I bought 1. 

lil man struggles with watermlon in slices and I usually end up cutting it into chunks for him in a bowl.  I remembered that I had pinned ages ago a pin on making Watermelon sticks.  Today I have sat and read the pin, followed the instructions and cut the watermelon into sticks and put in a tub in the fridge.

Hopefully this will make it easier for lil man to manage. 

July 14th 2015 - New dinner

July 14th 2015 - New dinner

It is that time on my meal planner again for "try something new for dinner".  I have looked through the food pins I have on pinterest and the hubby said no to chocolate brownie cake or cake batter cinnamon rolls so I kept looking and decided that we would try Cajun Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo .

It looks and sounds nice, I just hope it tastes nice!  Will update after tea.

July 13th 2015 - Boarder

July 13th 2015 - Boarder

I have finally got round to putting up the Thomas the Tank Boarder in my sons bedroom.  It has only taken me about 2months since buying it.

It's nothing like the picture as that looks like something from the 1980's, but it was the only 1 I could find on pinterest and I couldn't be bothered to look for his and add it as a pin.

I was really pleased with it, it was on a reduced rack in shop in town, was £3.99 a roll down to £1.79 a roll.  I bought 3 to make sure I had enough, I have plenty I have used 1 and 1/4 rolls.  IF I was too move lil mans bookcase off the stairwell and do that wall as well it probably would use the 2nd roll, but thats too much work to do it.  Well I say that today but I will probably change my mind in a few weeks/months and do it.

Lil man is going to be pleased when he comes home from school as has asked since I bought it when i'm going to put it up.

July 12th 2015 - Rugby

July 12th 2015 - Rugby

Rugby - the game not the place.  I am none the wiser on the rules now after the match than I was before it.  And I wasn't there to eye up the players either.  I was at the local game with St John Ambulance as my son (cadet) wanted to go and there has to be a youth leader present.

He spent ages during the game telling me stuff and what was going on and such and I was like "yea i'm a girl, like i'm meant to now or understand!"  IF I am going to be down there a lot I will be taking my folding chair instead of sitting on the concrete steps.

July 11th 2015 - Staining the decking

July 11th 2015 - Staining the decking

I have 9 days until my friend is coming to stay, this means that the house needs blitzing from top to bottom, most of this can wait until the day before she gets here as will only end up a mess again with the kids.  But it also means that I only have 9 days to make the garden safe for her children (mine know its not completely safe and where they can/cant go etc.)

1 of the jobs that needs doing is the decking to be finished (we have 3 rows to do).  But I can stain the part of it that is finished.  We bought some ronseal wood stain the other week (£24 in b&q, same stuff in home bargains £8.99!)  Yep I can cope with that. I also bought a tin of varnish from £1 shop that I am going to put over the top as a sealant.

before stain

during stain

after stain