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Awards

I'm delighted to have received two awards which I now have the pleasure of passing on to some wonderful blogs I love to read.

Thrifty Craft Mama has awarded me with the “Premio Dardos” award for "bloggers who distinguish themselves for showing cultural values, ethics, great and fun writing skills, as well as individual values, through their creative writing." Thank you Thrifty Craft Mama!

Here are the award rules:
To accept and show the distinct image
Show the link to the blog from which you were given the award
Choose 15 blogs to give the award

These are the 15 blogs I've chosen to give the "Premio Dardos" award to:
Necessary Room
Operation You
Our Unschooled Family
The Snail's Trail
The Wilson-Parkes Family Tree
Veggie Way
Green Mamma
Frugal Family Fun Blog
The Baby Dust Diaries
Corridor Living
I must be in a good place now
Chronicle of an Infant Bibliophile
You know how we're an art family...
Living and Learning
Loopity Lou


Healthy Moms has awarded me the "One Lovely Blog" award, which is for newly discovered blogs. Thank you Healthy Moms!

Here are the rules of this award:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to up to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

These are the 15 blogs I've chosen to give the "One Lovely Blog" award to:
A Mountain Mama’s Blog
Breeze Daze
Happily Blended
Hopeful Insights
Ingrid Liddle is kind of cute!
Mama Notes
Momma Molly
My Barefoot Babies
Planet M Files
Seeking Imperfection
serendipity
sugar boot and weasel
The Little Travelers
Zach Aboard
Lisa Russell

There are so many more blogs that I enjoy reading. Some of them I previously gave the "Lemons to Lemonade" award. To all the other fantastic blogs I've been visiting and following thank you for your inspirational, creative and fun posts, and thank you also to the lovely bloggers who've been visiting and following this blog!

Umbrella

Inspire Me Thursday is a weekly invitation to amuse your inner muse. This week's topic is Umbrella.


A secret den in the garden

A toy pond

Last week Thrifty Craft Mama posted about making a simple dollhouse using a shoebox lid, some fabric scraps and some cardboard. As one of Sunnyboy's interests at the moment is the pond in our garden, I decided to adapt Thrifty Craft Mama's idea and make Sunnyboy a pond. We used an old puzzle box, an old piece of shiny, blue wrapping paper and some pictures of greenery torn from old magazines.



We glued the blue, shiny paper to the bottom of the box and then ripped strips of the magazine pages to go round the edges. We found a set of frogs in the charity shop recently so they were perfect for the new pond and we also got a fish and a duck from Sunnyboy's basket of wooden animals and put those in the pond too.



Another of Sunnyboy's current interests is reenacting the opening scene from Madagascar and here's Marty the Zebra ready to jump over the pond.



Thrifty Craft Mama is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in doing crafts with young children. She has lots of great ideas for simple and free/inexpensive craft projects.

Click here to see the play, crafts and learning ideas blog link-ups we share at.