made this weekend

This last weekend has been one of those quite ordinary weekends. You know, one where you don't really DO anything. And then I thought, actually, we did do quite a lot...

On Saturday we cleaned and tidied the house, set up the new laptop to our home network, set up the printer as a network printer, Phoebe did her gymnastics, Mark and I had our flu jabs, the lawn was mown, the girl's and I had our hair cut, we enjoyed a delicious home made chilli and the day was rounded off by watching Strictly - quite a lot for a quiet Saturday.

Sunday was a lazy day - all the housework had been done the day before. All we did was the weekly food shop, Mark did four hours of homework, the ironing basket was (nearly) cleared, we popped to a couple of garden centres looking for planters and looking at fish, cooked and consumed a Sunday Roast before sitting in front of the TV watching Doc Martin (oh, how I want to live in Cornwall, AND have a dog!), laughing our way through a re-run of Top Gear (the one with the old Leyland cars, that Helen and I saw them filming, but that's another story) and dreaming of going whale watching again while watching Last Chance to See..

Yep, just another average quiet weekend. Then I remembered the crafty, creative makes that had also made their way into the weekend.

Phoebe made banana cakes, using a banana loaf recipe that she'd made a couple of weeks ago.



While the house was being tidied on Saturday, Mark inadvertently threw away some very important bits of paper that were lying around on the computer table. These were lists of various important bits of info that Luu had been jotting down while surfing the net. So, pulling a few bits of card from my stash, I made her a book to keep those scraps of paper together and not looking like intended rubbish...

The cover was made from a quick card I had started to make...

The inside pages have been folded up to make pockets for those important bits of paper, and some blank cards left for new notes...

And some pictures added, well, just because... Then all put together using my Bind-It-All. It's already been put into use - I might just have to make some more...

Sunday morning saw me showing the girls how to make paper boats, the picture's at the top of this post. We used pages out of magazines headed for recycling - carefully choosing pages with good colour combinations. And very pretty they look - "sailing" along the window ledge in the conservatory.

So, there you go, a quiet weekend at our house...

Sarah x