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party dresses

At the National Gallery. Ella and Poppy taking a short break between face-painting all the guests at my birthday party.

let's dress up

A pirate shop-keeper and a tree-climbing clown. A small boy sweltering in his clown-suit which he insisted upon wearing around the Botanic Gardens.

hoteliday ---<>--- christmas

Tamara and Ella's Recipe for a Hoteliday*

Take:

one girl

one mummy

one hotel room

one christmas 'tivities' plan

some chips

some fizzies

one spa bath

lots of little hotel packets

some fabulous outfits

a surprise auntie

Method

mix it all up - have lots of cuddles - discuss everything - befriend people - take a taxi and a tram - read in bed together - get room service

The mum and girl should be exhausted by end and ready for quiet night in and a bit of regular bedtime.

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This recipe is quite adaptable actually - any combination should be great - as long as you don't miss out the little hotel packets.

*Hoteliday = a holiday in a hotel for a day

house-bound house-found 3 - sticky tape

And how about this little mixed collection of craftyness, reading practice and green found on the kitchen table?

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Sticky-tape- how it is loved in this house. There is nothing my girl cannot mend or create with a few bits and pieces and some sticky tape, which she much prefers to glue any day - so in case you're in need, here are a few sticky tape ideas: make a laptop with a plastic box, bits of paper and stickytape; stickytape a buckle back onto a broken shoe; stickytape a button to a door as a doorbell; stickytape a torn hat back together; stickytape some buttons to a small cardboard box to make a mobile; stickytape fabric scraps onto small dolls as clothes, make a sculpture from some stickytape, feathers and a large cardboard box ...

house-bound house-found 2

Ale's birthday star, Ella's skirt design, love bag, alphabet, bye-bye in chinese, Ella's jobs, cupboard of tiny found things, Blondie lyrics, and Proper Moments for Drinking Tea ...

christmas crafty plans (present ideas carefully hidden), collage dragon (from school), recipe for 'icky-sticky fruit pops', paintings, mandala

Folding girls, dolphins, people and stars - a project with Nana.

examine and see

Playdough Shop

Ella says: My friend Kaelan made some chocolate mice and I made lots of different little biscuits and cuppacakes.

Medal Shop

Ella says: I made the medals bymyself and I put them up on the tray and organised it the way it was. I made a SALE sign and Don't Ring the DoorBell because my brother was asleep and I didn't want him to wake up. My shop was open. My mum and my dad and my granny came to my shop.

Aerosol Arabic and Crooked Rib

We walked up Spark Lane to see this fantastic street art project starting up. The Crooked-Rib team were sitting in the lane cutting a stencil of a verse from the Koran. The verse describes how, even if the river flows abundantly, it is best to take only as much water as you need. They had picked it because they felt it was relevant for Melbourne today. They said it was difficult cutting the script - lots of swirls and curls - hard on the hands. Aerosol Arabic had just started the mural. It'll be finished next Monday.

Wait for me!

summer soon

big screen entertainment

Ella and Jamie get themselves into the frame at ACMI.

reading to Ella's dolly

Ella writes: I was reading to my dolly. The book was about animals. I was reading her the book because she was getting a bit upset. Her name is Anika.

boy in motion