Category: Family & Friends
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Waterwheel
This waterwheel in Hakone reminded me of Rumi’s poem about a waterwheel ❤️ Stay together, friends. Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake. The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. That way it stays in the garden, whereas another roundness rolls through a dry riverbed looking for […]
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Decorate your fans
Here’s a simple easy way to decorate your fans if they have a circle bit in the middle 🙂 Draw a mandala or any kind of picture on a piece of paper. I quite like using a black ink pen and then colouring in with coloured pencils. If you are making these with someone else, […]
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Cardboard House
Before recycling cardboard boxes, why not make a house or something else from them first?
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Mini Terrariums
Made these with my son Dan in lockdown and some of them are still alive and healthy!
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Halloween Lanterns
These look great, are so simple and if you use water based paint you can wash the jars and use them again for something else!
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Make your own medicine jars!
I made these jars to help make taking medicines easier and more enjoyable :)
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Iron Beads Fringe Chandelier
This is still a collaboration work in progress… I made the frame out of an old wire coat hanger and black tape. The fringes are made from “iron beads”. Each fringe has a different theme and some are made by friends and family or all ages 🙂 It even has some glow in the dark […]
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Home schooling calendar sticker legend
Here’s our home schooling calendar sticker legend – many ideas inspired by family, friends and the Internet! Going to try and do the core curriculum ones on every weekday, with days off on weekends / holidays. Make your own calendar sticker legend with your kids! All you need is: A piece of card or paper […]
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Sunshine!
Feeling this in the literal sense at least! It’s beautiful weather today 🙂 Today is our second day of Dan being off school due to the coronavirus outbreak – going to try to start each day with Sun Salutations! Why not start your day with something that makes you feel good?
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The Most Important Thing
When I was walking with Dan to school the other day, we were talking about him cycling home on his own and I said, “Be careful, keep looking around for cars and people – Observation – that’s the most important thing!” Dan said, “No it’s not!” I said, “Yes it is – what’s more important […]
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Perfect
While staying with my family in the UK this summer, I was rather taken with this translation of the Upanishads by Shree Purohit Swami and W. B. Yeats which I found on my stepdad’s book shelf. Especially the first few lines: That is perfect. This is perfect. Perfect comes from perfect. Take perfect from perfect, […]
Grace Kishino 