Valentine Heart

Today's blog post is dictated by Madeleine.

 This is me.   I'm putting the tissue paper on the box.  It's the red one, but I needed the pink one, and Daddy cut the pink one for me.  It was a heart shaped box.  I had good fun.  I was making the box for Heidi.

Mummy made the little heart box and I made the big heart box.  We were making them because it was Valentine's Day.

We made biscuits.  Me and Daddy and Mummy ate the biscuits.  There was white snow (icing sugar) on top of the biscuits.  They had jam in.`

Frozen: the sequel

This has nothing to do with our Frozen party - well not much!  Since the Autumn, in an attempt to compensate Madeleine for her philistine parents, we've been going along to this fantastic art class at Jupiter Artland, where the immensely talented Izzie, Helena and Catherine have been nurturing her creative potential in a magical woodland setting.  It being February, and things being frozen (but literally there) no Disney in sight... and inspired by the work of Anya Gallaccio, not Elsa... they have been making ice art.   You can read about their snowy stickmen.  As a seriously competitive parent though, and seeing an activity in my competence range,  couldn't resist a blogger response, so coming back at you ladies, here is our attempt at icy stuff. 

So I think this might be called transitional art - don't quote me on that...  which basically means you get nothing to take home with you.   Us being us, we couldn't resist a FROZEN themed frozen thing, but as we are gently steering Madeleine away from "that film" and have just managed to take the decorations down, we also did a woodland one too.  

snowdrops; twigs; berries; moss; snows; butterflies; ladybirds; snowflakes; chalk; feathers; cord; ballons.

We did try to freeze it in the garden over night, but it wasn't cold enough.  Freezer worked well.

Then it melted - "that's art too" Madeleine remarked casually.  She's really getting the hang of this art stuff.