for Moo and her tribe of mischief mates...
DIY Feather Headdress
You'll need:
Large white feathers x5
Assortment of small coloured feathers 8 -12
Buttons and sequins - whatever else you feel like decorating with
25mm wide x 90cm long ribbon or grosgrain tape
15mm wide x 30cm long ribbon or grosgrain tape
Needle and thread
Craft glue
Sewing machine
Method:
Fold your 25mm ribbon in half to find the centre front for your headdress.
Place the white feather evenly along 15cm in the centre of your 25mm ribbon, stick down with a little craft glue.
Place coloured feather over the white ones extending out to the sides a further 5cm, stick down with craft glue.
Place 15mm ribbon over the top of the feathers, fold raw ends under 5mm and stick in place. Stitch over the top of this ribbon to secure all the feathers.
Now decorate by glueing on your buttons and sequins. You may want to hand stitch these to make them less likely to fall off.
Keep the ribbon ends long to tie up behind your head.
Last week we had Mima's room painted, a lovely pale grey-blue colour. I wanted to create a new light shade for the center of her room, and thought a cloud would be perfect.
Here it is...
To make one you will need:
LOTS of white tissue paper
white balloons - I used eight
double sided tape
vaseline
string
wallpaper paste
the top wire hoop and central hook from a paper lantern, you need to connect these two parts. I bent the wire around the hoop and then covered the wire ends with tape.
1. First blow up all your balloons and arrange them to create a cloud-like shape. I used small pieces of double sided tape to connect the balloons.
2. Tie the string to a hook on the roof, then slide the top wire hoop from a paper lantern on to this string, and tie the other end of the string to a balloon end within the cloud. The wire hop should sit snuggly at the top of your cloud.
3. Then tear your tissue paper into strips and mix up your wallpaper paste (it would be good to do this in an ice cream container or something that you intend to throw away).
4. Grease the balloons in a thin layer of vaseline.
5. Then start placing glue covered strips of tissue paper on the balloons. Starting at the top wire hoop, you need to make sure this is securely in place, so wrap strips of glued tissue around the wire and back onto the balloons. Completely cover the balloons in a few layers of tissue.
6. Leave it hanging for a couple of days to completely dry. Then using something sharp pop the balloons and remove them. I crumpled the shape a little to make it more cloud-like.
Hang it up and enjoy.
At home today feeling a bit under the weather, wanting a snack but lacking energy when I remembered I made my first batch of Almond Butter a few days ago. So good on slices on apple with a squeeze of lemon for a yummy and nutritious snack.
I used the recipe of My New Roots but it's as simple as roasting raw almonds and blending until they turn in a paste. I added a dash on sesame oil to mine as the consistency was little hard.
Delicious and half the price of store brought almond butter.
I couldn't resist making Moo and her cousins some bunny ears for Easter. Now they can hop hop around like little bunnies while searching for easter eggs left by the real Easter Bunny!
You'll need:
kraft card to make your ear shape templates
white felt
pink felt
pipe cleaners
elastic
and a sewing machine.
Method:
Cut out white felt as your outer ear and pink felt as inner ear. Stitch layers together. Insert a pipe cleaner in between layers, stitch to hold in place. fold ears in half and stitch up 2cm at front edge to make the ear have nice shape. Measure elastic around child's head and stitch ends together. Position ears and stitch onto the elastic.
Happy Easter from Mima + Moo
To finish Moo's easter tree today I made a mini Easter Bunny garland. Then Moo decorated the tree (twigs in a vase which we painted silver) with our eggs and the garland. Now the Easter Bunny knows we live here.
You'll need:
white felt
pen or pencil
embroidery yarn
needle
card to cut your stencil from
I made a bunny stencil with kraft card, trace wrong side down onto your felt and cut out bunnies. Turnover to right side and using you needle and yarn thread the bunnies on spacing evenly as you go.
Last year we painted the easter eggs for the first time for a little easter tree, so this year I thought we'd try something different and dye them. I've found it impossible to find white shelled eggs anywhere, brown still work but the colours are less vibrant. Green and blue dye showed up best.
Hand dyeing easter eggs with Moo was really fun, and incredibly messy because someone wanted to dye their hands....
You'll need:
blown eggs, clean and dried - we used 6
string to tie your eggs up.
food colouring
white vinegar
white crayon
Method:
1. draw on eggs with white crayon. the dye doesn't stick to any area with crayon
2. put 1 teaspoon each of vinegar, food colouring and water into a glass. and dye. to get the ombre effect dip the bottom in the dye, then slowly add a little more water to each time you dip to get the lighter shades, drying between layers.
3. hang eggs to dry outside if possible as the dye drips...
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I thought I would give you a sneeky peek inside Mima's wardrobe and show you some of the outfits she wore this week.
Clockwise from top left: Trelise Cooper Kids top with bloomers in Karen Walker Bunting print, Cotton On long sleeve top with bloomer dungarees with Karen Walker embroidered patches, Miller long sleeve shirt with Peppin Tipi leggings, Peppin leopard print T-shirt with leggings in Karen Walker mustard Hydrangea print.
Pretty stylish I think.
