What your child teaches you...

Rafeeqa is in Reception this year, I just think it is a big thing for her. She starts to learn organize her things by herself every morning and puts her bags in the proper place in the classroom. She gets homework everyday too which she always finishes by herself. 

She was telling me the story about "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" yesterday, claiming she knew all the characters inside, well, that didn't surprise me at all as we watched the Disney version together ( actually, I was trying to tell her the real version of the story by Victor Hugo, then she obviously couldn't understand at all so this crazy mummy had to stop ), but you know what, she asked me another question:

"Mummy, do you know, why people can live on earth?"

"Yah, there is water and air on earth!"

"How about the other balls?"

"Other balls?"

"The others floating around the earth?"

"You mean the other planets?"

"Yes, that's right, the planets."

"There is no water nor air, I think, so people can't live there."

"Oh," She paused for a while and continued:"you know, mummy, there is no toy, we can't live there."

That's the end of the conversation. Toys=Essential of living !

The Trip

5 days, a short trip but definitely a good one.

My two were enjoying the magazines and never tired posing for their mummy.

Drove up to the Mt. Kinabalu, kids were joyful when they saw so many fruits to taste!

Renee's new instrument made from coconut shell, believe it or not, she sang while she was playing it !
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My new favourite thing at the moment

Doodlebug's crushed velvet! Shabby gave me a bottle of sample for July's work and after numerous trial, I made a card with velvet title " Thank you" also using K&Co's rubbing on letters. But I found actually you can have so much to do with it. I finished another LO just now, using OA's pp and tried crushed velvet for the flower.

I heard pp complaining too troublesome to use them, but it just likes all the glitters, and just for a change of glitters, of course at the mean time I love the velvet feel... that's why I grant myself the whole 12 bottles with different colour!

(1) Choose the item you want to use, in my case, I cut out the flower from OA pp:

(2) Brush up the glue, I used Tombo's liquid glue, you also can use any type of liquid glue you have. But just be careful, you need to only brush the area you want to use the crushed velvet for:

(3) sprinkle crushed velvet on:

(4) shake off the access and cut it out nicely, so here you are, ready to use for you layout:

It will work well with doodlebug's stick with it adhesive transfers, I especially like the swirl design, got to use it for the next one.

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An 4 year-old artist

Now, I also want to share with you a little drawing done by my Rafeeqa. She is fond of the Winx club and apparently this one is her favourite. I just amazed to see how detail she could draw, look at the shoe, the lace, the dangling stuff on the wing...She has been working on all the characters for a while and leaving my place with all scribble. I have to say kids are creative and they are proud of their completed work, not like us though, just wonder, where did our confidence go?