Happy Anniversary Rich & Deb xx
Info for mom and Jenny - you wanted to know what the flowers were that Roman planted for Mother's Day. He picked them because they "looked pretty" but we had thrown the packet's away and didn't know what they were. I enlarged a photo of when we brought them and they are Aubretia.
First thing this morning we gave Roman's bedroom a first coat of white paint on two walls. As we were covering up blue paint with white it was layer after layer after layer all day, it took longer than we anticipated. We are now leaving it to dry overnight and hopefully it will all be back together tomorrow.
We hate decorating, there is always something more fun to do. Probably shouldn't admit this but we only decorate where we have to as the furniture doesn't get moved, its semi-fitted - look what was at the back of Roman's wardrobe! Original nursery paper from when we decorated when I was pregnant with Anais, yellow and lilac and a border of bunnies.
When Roman was a toddler it was painted blue with a Thomas the Tank Engine border. When Roman was growing up and rocket mad we repainted it blue and put up a rocket border, rocket stickers, rocket posters, you name it there wasn't a spare bit of wall that didn't have a rocket on it!
Though he is still very much into space and rockets he asked for his room to be decorated and picked the vintage cars himself - a sign he is growing up and not so much a little boy anymore :-(
Today we also popped out shopping, took a roll of Roman's wallpaper back, we brought five rolls but only used four.
We also popped to Wilkinsons where there is currently 25% off all home brew at the moment so got another four wine mixes to make later in the year.
We also popped to Wilkinsons where there is currently 25% off all home brew at the moment so got another four wine mixes to make later in the year.
This afternoon Anais finished her English and Maths homework.
We helped Roman make an Easter bonnet hat for the Easter assembly on Thursday.
The base is made from a polystyrene pizza base, the box and "flowers" are from the Cath Kidston packaging from my Mother's Day present. The "box" held the cup in place and each "flower" separated the cup from the saucer and the saucer from the plate. Roman painted the "flowers" and we used a pipe cleaner as flower stalks. Where the cup was held in place in the packaging we had Easter eggs bursting out of it and little Easter chicks stuck around. It was all covered with spray adhesive and spring coloured wrapping paper. So useful having boxes of "bits" around to throw something like this together quickly for school.
We helped Roman make an Easter bonnet hat for the Easter assembly on Thursday.
The base is made from a polystyrene pizza base, the box and "flowers" are from the Cath Kidston packaging from my Mother's Day present. The "box" held the cup in place and each "flower" separated the cup from the saucer and the saucer from the plate. Roman painted the "flowers" and we used a pipe cleaner as flower stalks. Where the cup was held in place in the packaging we had Easter eggs bursting out of it and little Easter chicks stuck around. It was all covered with spray adhesive and spring coloured wrapping paper. So useful having boxes of "bits" around to throw something like this together quickly for school.
Anais' bedroom wallpaper is very pretty and we have lots of off cuts and three quarters of a roll left. I cut a piece out earlier and stuck it onto the hand soap in the kitchen.
I already made some pictures for the stairs with a sample last year. I think this is going to be popping up frequently in our house!
The flowers on the shrub in the back garden are all falling off the branches. I brought some in earlier and put them in a glass bowl with water as a pretty table decoration. Hopefully the water will prolong them for a few days, such a pretty pop of colour.
Last year we brought this paint your own set from the car boot sale for pennies.
We had already used the plate from it to make a clock for grandma and grandad for Christmas using Anais and Roman, Jordan, Dylan and Lexi's fingerprints.
Today Anais and Roman painted half of the bowl each and then we put it in the oven to set the paint. They also wrote their name on the half that they had painted. We put a pretty plant in it for grandma's birthday tomorrow.
Today Anais and Roman painted half of the bowl each and then we put it in the oven to set the paint. They also wrote their name on the half that they had painted. We put a pretty plant in it for grandma's birthday tomorrow.
Here is the half that Roman did, he wanted a block of blue.
Here is the half that Anais did, she wanted to do horizontal stripes.
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