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Home » First week back – Living Arrows – 2/52

First week back – Living Arrows – 2/52

January 11, 2015 by admin 15 Comments

This week has just flown by with school runs and generally trying to catch up ( unsuccessfully ) after Christmas, but everyone seemed happy to go back to school, if a little exhausted by Thursday, so it was a pretty successful, if unadventurous week.

I’ve have been feeling like I’m not doing enough fun suff with the kids at the moment, so this weekend I’ve tried to jam in as much as possible between birthday parties and sporting activities.

The girls have been making up lots of stories with their story stones, S made herself some skis while I tried to get her interested in number bonds. I failed miserably despite my best efforts and I thought genius idea of using cars and trains, but never mind, at least I can blog it later.

I’m very jealous of her ability to make anything she wants with cardboard, pipe cleaners and sellotape.

homemade skis

In my efforts to improve my photography I’ve installed picasa to edit my photos, while I decide if it’s worth me paying for Photoshop. I didn’t have the best starting shots to work with this week, but S wearing a dress is unusual enough to document and I quite like the cheeky faces in the second one. Not my best efforts, but with limited time and rubbish light, these best I could do.

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  1. Actually Mummy...

    January 12, 2015 at 11:16 am

    She’s very creative – takes after her mum! I’m terrible at making stuff so it makes me massively happy when my daughter settles down with a few bits and pieces and comes up with the most imaginative things. And now she’s 10 she’s actually creating things I can see the point of!

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  2. Sonya Cisco

    January 12, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    Loving those skis! And off to investigate picasa – had considered photoshop, but with a cheap point and shoot camera and not a lot of artistic skill I am unsure if it is going to make beauties out of my photos!

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  3. Amy

    January 12, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    I love how they can turn cardboard into an amazing game, clever girl! I haven’t tried Picassa but use Picmonkey for all my pics which is loads cheaper than Photoshop I do wonder if I need Photoshop and how different it is x

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  4. Mammasaurus

    January 12, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    That bottom photo made me chuckle – such fab expressions!!!

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  5. Karen

    January 12, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    Loving your photos, the creativity & the pretty dress. Happy new year to you & looking forward to seeing more photos this year x

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  6. Mummy Barrow

    January 12, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    I love the skis. It really made me smile that pic. Brilliant. And dont beat yourself up about not spending time with your kids. I bet they dont think that way, we put ourselves under such pressure.

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  7. Boo Roo and Tigger Too

    January 12, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    How cute does S look in that dress, beautiful. I’m hoping to try and get myself back into a routine but failing miserably at the moment.

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  8. Nikki Thomas

    January 12, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    What an ingenious use of cardboard?! I love the bottom photo, such cheeky faces.

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  9. Mari

    January 12, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    Love those skis! Makes me want to go skiing again.
    I’m undecided at investing in Photoshop too, I’m still in Picmonkey world for my editing. It’ll be a move I have to make at some point I guess

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  10. [email protected]

    January 12, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    Lovely to see how much fun kids can have with a bit of imagination

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  11. HPMcQ

    January 12, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    we have a running joke in our house that we can make anythign with a sheet of A4 paper!

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  12. Alexandra @dontcallmestepmummy

    January 13, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    Wow she is very skilled at making things from heuristic materials. Clever thing. I love the pictures and love the variety in the shots. The bottom one just captures a lovely fun relationship 🙂

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  13. Becky

    January 13, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    Those skis are very cool!

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  14. otilia

    January 13, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    oh your girls are so inventive and cute!

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  15. Merlinda

    January 14, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Firstly your photos are amazing. I wish I can take such clear and crisp photos!

    I love how your daughter’s mind works! Amazing imagination and limitless ideas for toys =) #livingarrows

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