Only temporary, SB and BB getting ready for bed, so more like distant screeching rather than the in ear variety! Those looking at the piccie below will realise we have had company!
So, we got up, did a bit of tidying [though as I did it, i wondered why, knowing that with 6 girls the floor would have secondary carpeting soon enough!] We made a dairy free choc/banana loaf and got that baking [yummy!] and SB started some more subtractions to get a handle on how to do it.
Merry and girls arrived, SB much put out that she had to finish sums – there were only 4!! But was told that Merry’s girls had all done their’s. So they finally got playing, and mostly dressed up and played being children??? Had lunch and then the playhouse was up so a roust about outside. I love the playhouse, and made by family of someone that posts on uk parents newsgroup. Now we just need a trellis and a white picket fence around it! Little House in the Big Garden. We need to get new swings for the tp frame though, as now the final swing has broken – sigh.
merry – bless her – had bought LOADS of craft things round for the girls to do. Including floam – which I have never used before, and has a weird texture. It was really good to use as a joiner between pompoms, polystyrene balls, mini sticks etc. so we did some playing, and then the children joined us [rofl!]
[ returning some time later, as have been playing lego with SB, then reading about mediaeval towns, and then she red me a blue red nose reader!]
not sure how quickly floam dries though! then merry had some foam sew it yourself bags. SB made a start, but then finished half of it when Merry and crew had gone home. She found it very simple to do, and was very happy with it. I think I am all linked out now!!!!
The cake was demolished to the last crumb, and more playing ensued. BB and Josie were cute, BB did NOT demonstrate well her potty trained ness! The other girls ran about, outside and in. The wendy house was a hit. We grown ups chatted and did some home ed discussion. Merry said that I had lots of craft kits!!!!!!
Very nice day, thankyou for visiting and having a wendy-house opening ceremony photo!
Sounds lovely!
aaah, we had a lovely day. And thanks muchly for the linkage – that was good fun, wasn’t it
I thought you’d made floam bags and had to re-read 3 times before I registered the “l” wasn’t there! Duh!
rofl to the idea of floam bags – I think not!
Have to say, not so sure about Floam, ok entertaining enough stuff to play with, but more in a once off, rather than a staple kind of way.
We had floam – my Mum bought it for us after seeing the TV ad. It’s ‘OK’.
Wendy house looks fab and crafty day sounds great fun
I think the floam works best when you have lots of bits and pieces to stick it round and make things with [see the piccies!]. Not sure about floam as a stand alone thing though. what did you use it for Nic?
We got floam-a-like for Christmas – much cheaper than the real, as-seen-on-tv Floam
I was just wondering what your e-mail address is, as I wanted to send something not for the comments section. ?
The most successful useage was making little shapes and sticking them on D’s mirror – oh and I covered a plastic ball in it to make a globe. D predictably made some Wallace and Gromit shapes from it which hung around a while until Lucy’s R ate them
and the rest went hard in the tubs and faded in the sunshine on the windowsill.
Would use it again for covering stuff as it’s quite cool for that – ie a wooden box or something, otherwise wouldn’t bother. I think it should be marketed more as a single use craft item as as an alternative to playdoh etc it’s overpriced and a bit crap!
I’ve sent you an email to the email address used when you left the comment Raihanah