Update

Sorry its been a while since my last post.  We have been doing things, but i have been busy and basically forgot to up date this blog.


SO what have we done.  well, the lap books kinda got forgotten about, but soon they will be restarted.

We have been doing art stuff and watching documentaries and one day last week I woke to find Curious Teacup snuggled beside me in bed, and as soon as i even cracked an eye, he was telling me things i had no idea about!
"Mummy, did you know the Snapping Turtle is the most meanest creature in the sea?"
"no, why is that?"
"Cos when it wants is breakfast or dinner it sits on the floor and looks like a stone and its tongue looks like a worm and the fish thinks its going to get its breakfast, but then the turtle SNAPS its mouth shut and the fish becomes breakfast"

He got that little bit of information from a show called Deadly 60 on CBBC.
 
The children also spent a week with Daddy L.   They had fun and Daddy L had found some books on Romans and Greeks etc and they watched Documentaries on Greek Myths and Legends.  He took them for a picnic too.

When they came home we started some Butterfly models out of cardboard.  They are not yet finished, but I want to make a bigger one and then some caterpillar models too.

Momma L is starting a fairly big Mixed Media project too, in the hopes that if the teacup humans see the big humans doing stuff and following through, finishing it off, they will follow suit and also get some inspiration from what Momma L makes. 

I am also considering redoing the "Art Gallery" in the

dinning room idea, but with a difference.

Curious Teacup asked about cave paintings and Graffiti and asked me to buy him some spray paint so he can learn now to do graffiti.  I said no, but maybe we can use the iPads and look at it digitally and maybe get an airbrush system and use that instead.  He has had a go at designing his own tag and made some cave art on the iPad.

SO i thought maybe we could repaint the dinning room, have the kids make cave art, graffiti tags, and then pick an artist, like Picasso, Dali or Munch and ask the teacup humans to copy the piece of art, but give it a twist of their own.

Pink Teacup noticed how windy it was yesterday, came in the house grabbed a carrier bag, a ball of string and a giant pencil and made herself a kite.

It flew so well, it popped off the pencil and almost over the fence!.  I taped the string down for her.  While tying the string to the bad, Pink Teacup asked me "Mummy, can we maybe get some stuff and make Butterfly Kites?"  Just as i was saying to Marmite Mug "I wonder where i could get some silk and make butterfly kites"

The Teacup Humans are off to see Daddy L tonight till Thursday afternoon.  We have an art group workshop that day..and Momma L turns 32 year old.  Its going to be a good day.  Im hoping to either be gifted or buy some more art supplies.


I am really getting into art, sketching, drawing etc.  There is more i want to learn about, Watercolours, Silk painting, Modeling with mesh and other materials.   I have project ideas i want to explore too.



Here are a few of my smaller things i have made, just testing out new pencils.

 Not brilliant, but i had fun doing them.

That's it for the update.  See you all soon

 Momma L