Zing Things

As you’ll see if you scroll down my first attempt was an Easter craft WF MW. Now I know I should have done cars, so to help out, the girls...

As Rhianna approaches teenager-dom (tomorrow), family conversation is rather dominated by discussions on her need and desire for more freedo...

Not quite wordless Wednesday – more speechless. Today in in the year 2007, 8.4 million children are believed to live in slavery. For mor...

We’ve been listening to the radio a lot this week, (see yesterday's post) and Beka was inspired to do some sewing by a discussio...

During a favourite radio programme this week, the presenter made an aside about the children’s writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter having ...

I love being a mum. Full of unmissable opportunities to improve my general knowledge. Here’s a random selection of just a few of t...

Beka's taking her turn to choose the picture. She's revisited last year's summer holiday remembering those walks on heath land ...

Equipment for this week’s art activity idea is simple: sheets of paper, pencils, wax crayons The idea in a nutshell: Find o...

A couple of days ago I was caught out by the store detective in my local bookshop. He didn’t march me off in handcuffs for purloining b...

Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning was a better painter than he was a poet, I think you’ll agree, but if, like him, you fi...

Craft is not top of Beka's list of favourite things to do with her time. But she wants to make herself a bunny like this. All it takes i...

Last week I posted a simple sculpture dough recipe . This week, in what I plan as a regular slot of arts activity ideas, here's a...

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve stared into a n d at these eyes: they belong to Barbara Durer, mother of Albrecht and I’ve dra...

in honour of World Book Day today, thousands of British readers were polled to find their Most Precious Reads - an imaginative choice of qu...

Even without taking the Blog-o-sphere into account, when you add up the number of children you and your friends have between you, it does ...

This is what I've been working on this week - a wallpaper style print from popular Art Deco ceramics designer Clarice Clift.

When the girls were little, friends a nd I used to take it in turns to hostess a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Party for our children, feat...

Last week the girls were away on trips with their school and while I didn’t have the trouble filling my time in their absence Rhianna would ...

Take a poem with the lines When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. (Je...