Visiting The Lamb Girls

On Friday last week Coen and I went over to Forest Hill to look after my cousins Madeleine and Mariette for the day. The girls were beautifully behaved and we had a wonderful time! Coen and Maddie have a very close, energetic friendship and enjoyed each other's company enormously!

We only had a couple of these incidents. I don't think they actually wanted all those trains for themselves, it was just that they didn't want the other to have them!

Mariette checked out my photographic equipment. Which was only fair considering she was my main model for the day. The other two move way too fast for my meagre skills at the moment.

I played around a bit with this one over the weekend.

I love the black & white! Check out those eye lashes!

Then big sister wanted in on the fun!

And Coen too, of course!

After lunch we went across the road to the park.

Where the big kids played...

and Mariette and I observed.

Coen and Maddie brought us some leaves to play with.

I thought it was time to stop harvesting leaves when the big stick made an appearance.

Coen and Madeleine developed an interesting little game...

Coen ROARS!

Maddie SQUEALS!

And the chase is on!

We had a wonderful time playing with the girls and look forward to seeing them again this weekend!

Jen

A Rainy Weekend

Last weekend we he headed out to the Kilmore Art Expo. The wonderful rain forced us to seek out indoor entertainments. It wasn't quite as good as last year, (in our humble opinions) but we still saw some lovely paintings and photographs. On our return home, Coen was feeling inspired and artistic so we brought out the paints!

Darron's old squad shirt makes an excellent art smock.

Coen did some acrylic on canvas,

before we moved on to some crafty caterpillars! Painting is serious business!

Here's a special tip for all those kids who have interferring mothers like Coen's. Give her her own project to paint and then she'll leave yours alone!

Painty hands are evidence of a productive afternoon!

Add some pompoms and pipecleaners and you have a fabulous caterpillar! Coen was very pleased with the final result!

After we finished painting, the sun broke through the black clouds so we went and had a look at the Assumption fete.

Darron and Coen had a ride on the spinning tea cups. The ride started out fun, but by the end they were both looking a bit queasy!

Just after hopping off the ride, the sky opened up and it absolutely bucketed down! We dashed for cover, and waited for the rain to ease enough for us to get back to the car. When it finally cleared a little we garbbed a show bag for Coen and raced home! It was possibly the shortest visit to a fete in history!

We managed to keep ourselves entertained on that very rare thing, a rainy day!

Jen

A Photographer in Our Midst Part II

After last week's photo shoot we gave Coen our point & shoot camera to have a try at some real photography. He seems to have the basics down already. Perhaps the time he's spent in front of the camera has something to do with it. He's always been an observant child!

There were quite a few misfires, as he waved the camera around holding the shutter button down.

But it wasn't long before he was taking some decent portraits!

Then he started on his toys.

This is what the above picture looked like from Coen's perspective.

A fun afternoon for all involved!

Jen

Covering Cushions

We were in desperate need of some nice cushions for our new(ish) couch. The ish shows how slack I've been in getting said cushions made. I had all the fabric and a cupboard full of nude cushions, so all I bought was some thread and 3 zips.

I'm pretty pleased with them, especially the bolster as I made it up as I went along!

I has a tonne of this fabric, my shopping bags are made out of it, now the cushions, and I even have enough left to make myself a skirt. Which I won't be able to wear if I plan on sitting on the couch as I will probably look like a giant cushion!

They have Coen's seal of approval!

We also needed some cushions for Coen's couch. We have one of the divans from Grandma & Grandpa's house. Until we get a new top for it, the cushions are prettying it up.

More creations from stash too! The cushions are from the afore mentioned cupboard full of cushions.

One is made from my old pyjama top.

The other is from Darron's old PJ top. It even has a pocket just the right size for Mawson!

They were super easy, turn the top inside out, mark the size of the cushion, overlock the edges, turn right side out, stuff in cushion, do up buttons! There are still a couple more cushions to do, but progress has been made!

Jen