30 days of creativity – day 3 – menu planner

It’s September, when I always vow to be more organised over the course of the coming school year, so today I modified a cork pin board into a menu planning board.

This was really simple – I cut 7 rectangles of coloured paper (14cm x 6cm) and glued them onto the board. Then I stamped the days of the week onto wooden pegs and I glued those on top of the rectangles.

Then I made a couple of little envelopes to hold a stack of little cards. I stamped our favourite meals onto these, so that each week I can just change the meals on the pegs, and hey presto, everyone knows what’s for dinner. I also left some blank for those meals I haven’t thought of yet.

(No, there’s not a card which reads “Get your own bl**dy dinner.” Not yet.)

 

(30 days of creativity simply means spending 30 minutes doing something creative for thirty days. They don’t have to be consecutive days. Why don’t you join in?)

30 days of creativity – day 2 – christmas stockings!

I’ve been thinking about Christmas – yes, I know it’s still august, but these things creep up on you!

So, I did a doodle (oo-er!) and coloured it in. I’m not sure if it will make it onto a card, but I like it!!

(30 days of creativity simply means spending 30 minutes doing something creative for thirty days. They don’t have to be consecutive days. Why don’t you join in?)

30 days of creativity – day one – minecraft duvet cover

Armed with a plain green duvet cover (a £2 bargain in Wilkinsons), a pot of black fabric paint I can’t even remember buying and a paintbrush I decided to make my ten year old son a Minecraft duvet cover.

I drew a creeper template, which I placed under the fabric and traced with my prym marker (a quilter’s pen which fades away slowly) then just painted very carefully. I randomly spaced my creepers, rather than measuring their exact location. (A hoard of creepers is the correct collective noun according to my son.)

It’s very hard to take a photo of the finished item without falling off the top bunk or banging your head on the ceiling – so you will have to be satisfied with a rubbish photo!!

(30 days of creativity simply means spending 30 minutes doing something creative for thirty days. They don’t have to be consecutive days. Why don’t you join in?)

And the winner is…

Wait for it…

(drum roll)

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Sarah Anne Richardson!!

Congratulations; please contact me via my email – shazronnie@yahoo.co.uk to arrange delivery of your prize 🙂