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Gathered Threads

food

easy banana bread

When our girls were really little I used to meet up with a friend with three boys under three. On arrival, she’d whip some banana bread fresh out of the oven with a very humble…’it’s such… Read The Post

Abi, Annabelle, Family

Kids and surfing.

Last week, Donegal was to be filled with free, remote, soul-filling play by the beach. And, despite the rain, it was. Hours were spent in the water both in their wetsuits and out! It was wet…. Read The Post

sew

diy kids messenger bag

This is a relatively straight forward wee bag that looks great when it’s finished and is perfect for kids to carry round all their bits and bobs!! Check out some other bags I’ve made for my girls,… Read The Post

Family, make, motherhood

Children’s Travel Journals

When we visited London last week the girls each had a travel journal to write and draw in. We collected and kept tickets and receipts to glue in…all reminders of what we did and what we enjoyed. We… Read The Post

Madeleine, motherhood

5 today.

I wanted to mark today with a letter.To you, my wee Madeleine; my littlest, fiercest, enchanting little character.I have kept saying to you, these last few months, to stay 4 forever. You reply that you can’t…”that’s… Read The Post

sew

how to sew a zipper pocket

Maddie wanted me to make her a bag to carry her bits and bobs in, so I seemed to spend endless hours working out exactly what I wanted to make…looking at loads of tutorials and… Read The Post

Family

London with Kids

So we are complete novices at the family city break thing…give us a tent and a pitch in a French campsite and we’re quite at home but London was a different thing for us this… Read The Post

away, Creative, make

diy wrist link

We were in London last week and I had made this little bracelet and stowed it away in case we needed it, and…as it turned out, we did!Our littlest is so inquisitive, so confident and self… Read The Post

Inspiration

be inspired

So this week I decided to bite the bullet and enter a competition with LIFE:CAPTURED Inc. and if you haven’t checked out their website you really should. A vision to unravel your photos. In learning how to… Read The Post

Inspiration

Working through.

For some reason, I’ve found this little hoop hard. It’s been redone and examined, mulled over and pulled out.I’m nearly there but it has been a long, drawn out process.Why? I don’t really know. It’s funny when… Read The Post