Added to our Covid-19 journal has been a spread about our attempt at making face masks. I filled one half of a 3x4 pocket with embellishments and stitched diagonally across it. (The embellishments are actually highlighting the other side of the spread, which details the scarcity of paracetamol.) We were suppose to have travelled to … Continue reading Covid-19 | The Journal | Part 2
Week 17: Week 6 of Lockdown and one of emotional highs and lows. There was the cooking to new recipes. There was the birth of our latest great-nephew; he arrived in dramatic style, in the car, in the car park of the hospital. Mummy delivered her own baby while Daddy was parking the car. All … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 17 and 18
Me: "This week's History assignment is to write about VE Day and what it means." Him: "Excellent! It is, as you know, my area of expertise!"
I'll be honest here. At the end of March, I had no idea how I would record our One Little Word. Ditto for April. And then thanks to a Saturday afternoon spent scrapbooking with The Best Friend, via the magic of Facetime, I knew ... March: It had to be Lockdown. How could it be … Continue reading One Little Word | Pause – March and April 2020
The Boy Child made this loaf as part of a home-schooling Food Tech lesson. The recipe is easy to follow and tastes delicious. Ingredients: 260 grams plain flour, 55 grams caster sugar, 4 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt (we went with a generous pinch), 320 ml milk (we used semi-skimmed), 125 grams … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Peanut Butter Loaf
Staying at home has had its advantages. During the first month of this year's 100 Day Project, I've worked steadily and enthusiastically on bringing all my stories and photos of my RAF days into one place. By Day 3 however, it was obvious that I was going to have to change tack. Project Life pocket-pages … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | One Month In
There's still 1 kg of self-raising flour in the pantry cupboard ... I have my fingers crossed that on the next visit to the supermarket, I will be able to restock. The flour shelves were completely bare on my last visit. Ingredients: 1/2 cup of butter, room temperature 1 cup of white sugar juice and … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Lemon and Blueberry Loaf
We are currently living through something that future generations will learn about in their school History lessons. As a memory keeper, I felt it was important to create a record of my own family's experience. I'm mostly using pocket pages in 6x8, with cards for the journaling from my favourite In a Creative Bubble. I'm … Continue reading Covid-19 | The Journal, Part 1
As much as we all want to live these perfect socially-distant lives right now, it’s just impossible, and you have to give yourself some grace and leeway. We’re not on holiday; this isn’t “time off.” It’s a global crisis. If you watch the news and it makes you cry, or it makes you sad, anxious, … Continue reading Life in Lockdown | Give Yourself Grace
Was April awful? Let's see what the numbers made of it: 18 online sessions of Pilates. 30 more days of Lockdown, bringing the UK's total number of days in Lockdown to 42. There were 15 mornings of homeschooling. We made 7 rainbows for our windows. I sent 9 pieces of Happy Mail. My highest daily … Continue reading Month in Numbers | April 2020
