Tag Archives: Flowers

Finished It Friday: The 7 year old’s guest appearance edition

Simple sampler by 7 year old

First week of the school holidays completed and everyone is still relatively happy. My daughter Amelie has been trying her hand at a few different crafts this week, and spent some time on Wednesday with my Mum. She came home with this: Amazing how a scrap of an old shirt and some practice stitches can more »

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Sunflower Challenge Finale

Compton Hospice, Sunflower challenge, how tall is your sunflower, growing sunflowers, sunflowers

Well the day of reckoning has arrived. Today is the day we had to see how we measured up for the Sunflower Challenge. Growing sunflowers is one of those fantastic childhood traditions that is so satisfyingly heartwarming to pass onto children. The seeds sprout so quickly, and in those early days the seedlings almost grow more »

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Sunflower watch – week 2

Sunflower Week 2

It’s a week since Amelie planted her sunflower seeds for the Sunflower challenge. We were away for most of last week so it was lovely to see the leaves just peeping through on our return. Today when I took a photo, three of our six seeds have sprouted. We are hoping that some of the more »

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Silent Sunday

Pail of gerberas

 

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The Gallery: Simple Pleasures

Gallery Hyacinth & Daffodils

This weeks theme from Tara at Sticky Fingers is life’s simple pleasures. What a lovely prompt. Especially in springtime, when all the winter drudgery is starting to fall away. It conjures up all kinds of lovely things, giggles of my children, the sound of them playing outside or jumping on the trampoline. Going to see more »

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