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[thebungaloo]

World Book Day - Where The Wild Things Are

I am a bit of a loser as I LOVE World Book Day. And that’s only because I get to make! Hooray!

Whilst reading Judy & Ada their bedtime story I asked Judy what she thought she might like to go as. Suggestions included Pippi Longstockings, which she dressed up as last year & Mildred Hubble as we are reading those books. I suggested Little My from the Moomins & we went through some of our book collection to see.

As we pulled out Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, I instantly wanted to make something from this - I just needed to coerce Judy! 

It didn’t take much to get Judy excited by the idea so coerce feels like too strong a word. She had initially wanted to be the girl character, but then we thought that Douglas the Bird would be a bit more creative to work with.. and her christmas sequinned skirt did kind of look like feathers...

It’s amazing what you can achieve with an old bed sheet & some felt tip pens! I used transfer paper to print on the characters head... but my ink cartridge was running very low... see those awful horizontal lines? I didnt have enough paper to reprint it so decided to just saturate the colours with felt tip pens... One thing I should have done though was use iron on stiffner with the crown... ah hind sight! 

Judy was exceptionally excited by the outfit & loved the progress... She even helped me sew the tail onto a belt! hooray!

Of course, Ada was witnessing our little adventure & declared that she wanted to be the girl one... we couldn’t leave her out now could we? I had to do the crown smaller so I could fit the prints onto one single sheet of A4, but she only has a diddy head anyway.

Let the wild rumpus start! 

[thebungaloo]

Rainbows

I have many blog posts to catch up on. Here is a little adventure back from sunny July when we finally got the keys & moved into our new home. 

I had asked Judy & Ada how they wanted their bedroom to be painted. They were to be sharing so it would have to be a decision made together... thankfully Ada pretty much copies with Judy does so it was going to be a unanimous decision whatever it was.  Judy wanted the bedroom to be painted with rainbows. Ada then wanted the bedroom to be painted with rainbows. So rainbows it would be! Hooray! (And I was ecstatic at this decision BOOM!)

It would be a while though before we got round to painting their room - we had to wait for my uncle who would prepare & paint the undercoats of the room. So before we got the keys I had decided to get a bit creative. 

I purchased some crystals to hang from the window & we set about hanging them in two rooms in the new house the week we moved in. And then we waited...

Until one morning I was woken by the excited screams of the girls - MUMMY! LOOK WE HAVE FOUND RAINBOWS!!!!! 

I have to say we have had one or two mornings in 2017 already where I have woken to the same excitable words! It’s magical having rainbows dance across the walls & floors & the girls think so too!