Snowdrops and Aconite
Almanac
After days of pelting rain, Henrietta saw that the weather forecast was for mild and pleasant weather …
Scrap Happy – Some Uses for Cardboard
Gingerbread House support
January 2022 has been quiet and sluggish, but we have developed a weekly pizza porch party tradition with our granddaughter and family, and have kept it up for the last year! The greasy side of a pizza box is not a very useful raw material so it gets rolled up and used for kindling. The top of the box could go into the municipal recycling, but we have found a few uses for cardboard scraps including laminated foil-wrapped cardboard bases for our gingerbread houses…
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Happy Ninth Birthday Girl Dear
Fancy Dinner
Hittys Henrietta, Rose, Arianell, Willa and Perdita went out to celebrate a special meal while Esmeralda held up the chandelier and Lady Frances did a stint of babysitting…
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Tidying the Raspberry Patch
Sunny moment
We have been having Very strange weather these days…but during a sunny interlude Henrietta and I went out to the raspberry patch…
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A Cardboard Bed for Hitty
Pizza Box!
We wanted to make a bed out of cardboard for Hitty, using materials and equipment that are already at hand, and not needing fancy equipment or materials. We used medium weight corrugated cardboard, a craft knife, and glue, four empty cotton reels, and some 1/4 inch wide ribbon. We used three kinds of glue: wood glue, hot melt glue and gluestick. You could get away with using just wood glue but some steps will take longer to dry!
Pizza boxes are a good weight but other medium weight cardboard can be used of course…
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Holly 3
Holly dear Dolly
Holly was finished just in the nick of time to be a Christmas day gift for the youngest human. I dressed her in a green knitted dress, and tucked her into a little dolly bed, and wrapped everything in a shoe box. Because of the box, young human was expecting shoes, but when she saw who was inside she whispered “It’s Holly!” in the most endearing and gratifying way.
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