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Welcome to my blog. It is updated weekly with pictures and projects from our homeschool - maybe you can find something to inspire you :) I have a (no longer updated) materials page elsewhere on my website and will, occasionally, post my homemade materials in this blog.

I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Saturday, August 08, 2009

Kokeshi dolls

We made Kokeshi dolls today - they turned out really cute!

April's doll is in the middle - Rosie's doll is the one in yellow and mine is the one in orange :)

I took photos of them individually so that the kids could put pictures in their lapbooks because we obviously couldn't put the whole dolls in there!

The weather is still looking ok for tomorrow so we should be off to Compton Acres after lunch (I've got everything crossed!) The whole place is gorgeous but they have a lovely Japanese garden complete with Tea House which will just be sooo appropriate considering what we're studying at the moment. Oh, and they've got a kids climbing play area too which is about the only thing that persuaded April and Rosie it was worth going! They moaned when they were first told they were going to "walk round some gardens" but I had to remind them that this was supposed to be my treat .... and make them feel better with the play area!