Seven Days (belated)

Just over a week. Seven pictures that sum up our everyday.














1. Into Film Festival
2. Walk
3. Magnetic play
4. Yarn Colours
5. Post Office again
6. Knitting/painting
7. Winter

process/experience art love

It has been an arty sort of month so far.















Art with friends. Art with LOTS OF MESS. Art with several different kinds of paint and just as many different kinds of brush. Art outdoors and in. Art that was cut up to make other art. *happy sighs*

Seven Days: a very busy week!

1. Oranges
2. Baby
3. All playing in the same space
4. First conker of the year
5. Board game night at the Book Cafe
6. Derby Feste
7. Green Man

Seven Days of Autumning

1. Calke Abbey babies
2. Night time walk
3. Board game time
4. Clay and twig hedgehogs (and cat hair *sigh*)
5. Child-felted acorns
6. Morgan found a person hiding in the olive jar
7. Talia tasting the rain

Busy List for Autumn

(With apologies for the rubbish picture!)

Week in Pictures

Another week. Wait, what? Already?!

We have crunched through leaves. Taken long sunny walks. Been bowling with friends.




Read stories, written stories, composed poetry, and stuck shark stickers all over *everything*. Had a water fight, and poured cups out of bedroom windows.


Made outdoor nature art and collected sticks for sculptures at a later date.


Watched the ducks, tried to jump on our own shadows, and had an amazing Not Back to School picnic in the blazing sunshine.






Snuggled and laughed and played more Sims and watched Stampy and dressed up and baked chocolate cake.






And some of us have put temporary tattoos on our faces, and even had the occasional nap (to compensate for being WIDE awake at midnight on more than one occasion)!

September Adventures

Back to school time, and I'm now legally responsible for facilitating full time education for three. No feeling of panic this year, or urge to get out folders just to feel like I'm doing something. New posters for Autumn ideas and inspiration, though. And a gradual return to some kind of household order as my depression lifts (often a bit too much order and not enough playing-with-the-kids or being-gentle-to-myself, as I suffer from a case of All or Nothing Syndrome).

The start of the school year has felt really peaceful this time around. Our Summer is transitioning into Autumn calmly and smoothly. We are getting out of the house a bit more. Life has a familiar sense of flow, and I am no longer flailing desperately for breath.





Morgan has been getting out the pencils a lot in the two weeks since I tidied their shelves. She even initiated some copywork after Jenna had some poetry books out.






We caught up with some friends we haven't seen for a while, and took a nature walk. The children foraged, pretended to be zombies, climbed up and down the river banks, and poked a dead rabbit with sticks.






Some very friendly little birds chirped at us in town.


And Rowan made an apple pie all by herself, with apples from our tree.


Jenna and Morgan went on a first aid course. Rowan and Talia waited somewhat impatiently, and inspected the ambulances. We bought new pens (and cookies) on the way home.


We visited Ikea and built flatpack furniture at Ashleigh's house.




Wollaton Hall had a festival running, a new trail around the museum exhibits, and some wonderful tiny bug sculptures.




We have installed mods for Sims. Painted. Collected leaves and acorn caps and stones and feathers. Baked cupcakes. Read together. Played in the garden. Pulled out the encyclopedia to look for pictures of seals. Threaded beads, Made apple sauce. Had friends round to play. Made our own notebooks.

It was a good week. :)