Happy Easter

100 Happy Days

I'm going to give this a go, because, well, why not!

Can you be happy for

100 days

in a row?

Why would I do that?

People successfully completing the challenge claimed to:

•  Start noticing what makes them happy every day;
•  Be in a better mood every day;
•  Start receiving more compliments from other people;
•  Realize how lucky they are to have the life they have;
•  Become more optimistic;
•  Fall in love during the challenge.

Even when the challenge is over the collected 100 happy moments can always remind you about the beauty of your life. For that, you can receive a little 100 page book with your 100 happy days at the finish line of the challenge!

You can follow me and my 100 Happy Days here if you would like to.

Thanks for visiting,

Yours in happiness 

Rachael

11 Years

This girl turned 11 yesterday.

I couldn't love her more.

And as I do every year, I give thanks to her mother who gave birth to her and gave her to me so I could be a mother.

Thanks for visiting

Rachael xo

Crafting 2013

Sadly I didn't do a lot of crafting in 2013.  All my creativity went into my teaching, which wasn't that creative either! It's hard to be a creative teacher when you are just starting out.  I did create a bag for my sister in law which I blogged about here and earlier in the year I made a big cushion for the Cowboy's birthday.

The Princess and her friend made salt dough cookies for Christmas gifts with quite a bit of guidance from me.
We used this recipe which was step by step easy to follow and super successful.
What I liked about this project was minimal ingredients, flour, salt and water and minimal equipment, baking trays, baking paper, cookie cutter and a chopstick for punching a hole in the head!

Pre Cooking

We used a stencil and a metal skewer to initial each 'cookie' as they were for family members.
I painted the initials with black food colouring before baking in a cool oven, for hours!

Cooked and ready to be glazed.

The following day we glazed the 'cookies' with a watered down mixture I concocted using ochre and black acrylic paint and put them outside to dry in the hot sun.

Glazed and drying in the sun

We threaded garden twine through the holes and attached them to each family members Christmas gifts.  Unfortunately in the scramble to get Christmas together I didn't photograph them tied to the gifts, trust me they looked so cute.

Brown paper wrapping looked cute with the 'cookies'

This was a great child friendly crafting project, one I think the Princess and I will make a tradition of and do each year using a different shape.

Thanks for visiting.
Rachaelxo

One

My New Years resolution is...

1hour per night free of doing school work
1day per weekend free of doing school work
1weekend per month free of doing school work

Do you make resolutions?

Thanks for visiting
Rachaelxo

Happy New Year

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From me to you,

wishing you the happiest New Year.

May your dreams come true!

Rachaelxo