More Crafting - mini sleeping bag, necklace and smoothie!!

After the excitement of the Literary Festival, N came home and wanted to 'make stuff'. "I want to sew a sleeping bag for the small cat teddy I have" she said. Now I have mentioned on this blog before that the item in our home that causes me the most stress is the Sewing Machine (that noise from the psycho movie plays in my head every time its out). At the moment its not working. I didn't want to say no when she was so keen so she hand sewed it instead....

 Seriously though, I have to do something about the sewing machine. We are now on our third one (never paying more than £30) (which is probably the problem). I am hoping that we have enough money left over from our trip to Orlando to buy a NEW one when we get home!

After she had finished the sleeping bag, she wanted to make her first smoothie. She looked through some recipes and found one she fancied doing, off we went to Lidl for some stawberries..... they had sold out so we got raspberries instead! N chopped a banana and put it in the blender jug with 75g of raspberries..

 250ml of natural yoghurt and some honey, I can't remember how much now but it looks like 2 teaspoons from here..

 She whizzed it up together and hey presto!

 We started making this necklace a few days ago but it has taken soooooooo long to dry. The instructions from a childrens crafting magazine tell you to use a bottle top to make this pendant, we didn't have one spare so I thought lets use a really small cookie cutter on greaseproof paper (hence the reason its taken ages to dry!!) Anyway, here is what we started with - cutter, greaseproof paper, elastic band and straw.

 and some of those small bead sequins

 we put the cutter on the greaseproof paper and wrapped the elastic band around the outside to hold it in place. We put the straw in the place that we wanted the hole for the necklace to be and held it there (you need a few hands to make this) Then we layered pva glue, beads, pva glue, beads, pva glue, beads etc etc

 After what seems like ages, you pull the beads from the cutter and voila :)