The Night Fury

String Bean's Night Fury Dragon.

We watched 'How to Tame a Dragon' during the school holidays and the kids loved it. When the end credits rolled Stringy said she couldn't wait to get home and draw the dragon.

She whipped this illustration up from what she remembered of the movie 5 minutes after walking in the door. She really is amazingly creative.

Hiccup and the Night Fury Dragon.

Reno: Our Boudoir

Husband Deluxe was so keen off the mark that I have zero 'before' photos. Two weeks ago on a whim we decided to paint our bedroom. Here are the results.


















To say we're overjoyed with the results is a huge understatement. It looks stunning. Husband Deluxe decided it looks like a display home!

We used: shaded spruce for the feature wall, hazel snow for the walls and natural white (+ 2 shades) for the wood work. Unfortunately the camera isn't capturing the true colour in the photos.

We took the easy option of buying pre-made curtains from Spotlight to hang off our existing curtain rail and nice nets which I hemmed up quickly on the machine.

Rainy Day Art

Yesterday being on the tail end of rain meant plenty of time for some crafting fun.

Fuzzy Wuzzy grabbed supplies and headed for the coffee table where he created this amazing snake. He even made a nest full of snake eggs (small polystyrene balls), yellow ribbon and red crepe paper for the snake and water painted background. Googly eyes finished him off.

Fuzzy then informed me that the snakes body "is a repeating pattern because we don't have enough patterns in the house!"



Squealy made this with some help from String Bean.

Not quite sure what it is. Probably an alien or a monster.








String Bean has been keen to make a meerkat habitat since she watched a documentary at school. She went ahead and using an old shoe box made this.

Very cute. She is now waiting for her trees to dry (paddle pop sticks and green pompoms).

She made the paper!

String Bean and Josie + female firefighters.
Photo Courtesy of The Camden Advertiser.

String Bean and her friend Josie made it into the paper. The girls attended a birthday party being held by Girl Guides NSW. It is the centenary of Guiding, so on the 100th day of the 100th year a massive birthday party was held.

The girls had a fun filled day in the glorious (HOT!!!) Sydney weather.

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