Garden Bird Watching
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Mudlark and Guttersnipe sat in the big armchair with Constance, watching the birds out in the garden…
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Making Felt Dollhouse Pie
Bottle cap pie tin, felt and bead berries
We are baking bottle cap pies! Bottlecaps came from the human household recycling box; then we dug around in the felt scrap bag and found Berry, Lime, and Pumpkin filling; and a nice baked crust; and a few whipped cream possibilities, and berry beads. Hot-melt glue for sticking…threads for stitching, and a useful coin for squishing and moulding into shape…finally a steam iron, or kettle spout is useful for steaming.
The coin needs to be able to fit inside the bottlecap – We’ve used a Canadian 25 cent piece, but a US quarter would work, as would a 1 Euro coin or an old English shilling!
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A November Stroll
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November can be glum, rainy, chilly and grey, but Floradora went up the hill to see what she could see…
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Halloween Party in the Quimper Cupboard
Mushrooms
After a deluge of rain, Min found a patch of (beautiful but very poisonous) Amanita mushrooms…
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Mincemeat Girls
Chopping
Willa and Jane chopped apples, orange peel, currants, raisins, almonds, and sultanas; added sugar, melted butter, grated lemon zest…and…
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Mixed Spice Girls
Allspice!
Flame and Forest contributed their hand-ground Allspice to Willa and Jane’s project…
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