Need a holiday, holiday!

So here's what I've been up to for the past few days.

I started doing the 'Values Pack' and found that it was such a HUGE undertaking that I thought I'd make a cute little 'Initial Letter Pack' to let the creative juices flow and so I didn't get bogged down in doing the values stuff.

I started. Did the template page and made a funky dotty border. At this point I realised I had no loyalty-free clip art. "No problem! I'll make my own!" I thought. Just under a hundred images down and 2/3rds of the way through after 4 days *SIGH* (I have been also adding black line and grey scale images to the sets and the worksheets because I know some people prefer it that way... so it is really JUST UNDER 300 IMAGES! EEP!) Still a little work to do but I hope to have it done by tomorrow... maybe.

Hubby decided to move our entire veggie patch and hot house construction to the other side of the yard where it will get more sun. The thing is the size of a double garage and all under netting. We aren't done yet but we are having a red hot go at getting it moved before it gets too hot for growing veggies.

Today I had a message from an ex-teacher from our school. She will be running 'Puppets and Play' at our school this term (like a playgroup but promoting literacy through puppet play). She needed a Very Hungry Caterpillar puppet for the first session next week. Unfortunately our Foundation level teacher had that resource last and wasn't answering her phone (too busy enjoying her break like a sane teacher!) Anyway, there was no puppet to be found in the time frame (we are in a quite remote town and although we do have eBay, there is no way it would reach us in time). Luckily I have a sewing machine and hot glue! I made it this afternoon.

 

He starts off looking like a regular caterpillar.

 

 

Crawls into his cocoon (chrysalis?)...

 

 

Turn him inside out as you pull off the cocoon and he is a beautiful butterfly!

Hehe! I had so much fun.