Joining DIY

"What is DIY?" I ask Mum.

"Do It Yourself," Mum answers. "It's a site where there are lots of challenges.You can do craft, cooking, writing, animation, photography and other things. You can have a look at it if you like."

I rush over to my computer and flip it open. I am soon on DIY looking around. It looks fun and soon I am telling Gemma-Rose all the things I would be able to do if I joined.

"You could sign up if you like," Mum offers. 

"Really?" I ask, already finding the sign up page. 

Soon I have joined and I'm looking around to see what badge I will try to earn first.

"I want to try earning the Writers' Badge," I tell Mum. "One of the challenges is to make a blog and write  three blog posts. I already have a blog so all I have to do is take a photo of it to prove I've done this."

Soon Mum and I are trying to work out how to take a screen shot of my blog. 

"Press the print screen button and then go to Paint and click paste." It takes a while for Mum and me to work it out. But we work it out in the end.

I go back to the DIY site and upload the picture of my blog to my project page, and I smile.

"I have done my first project," I tell Mum. She smiles at my excitement.

I can't wait to earn my Writers' Badge and do more projects. It is going to be a lot of fun.

Are you on DIY? What is your username? I am Miss Fifi!

Nifty Notebooks

I was trying to think of some craft to do. Then I came up with the idea of making little notebooks.

Gemma-Rose and I found the things we needed for it. We found scrapbooking paper with beautiful patterns, brightly coloured paper and pastel coloured paper. We also found curling ribbon.

Then we got to work. We cut pieces of paper in half to make double pages. Then we took another piece of paper and cut out a rectangle slightly bigger than the pages. We glued one of the double pages inside the cover to make it thicker. Then we folded down the edges of the cover that stuck out beyond the pages and glued them down inside.

After that we punched holes in the pages and in the cover for the binding. We tied curling ribbon through the holes to hold the pages and cover together. Then we decorated the covers. We cut out flowers from the patterned scrapbooking paper. We were done!

I made one notebook for me and one for my friend. Mine was purple, which is my favourite colour, and the other was pink, which is my friend’s favourite colour.

I enjoyed making the notebook because we could experiment with the paper and glue and work things out for ourselves. 

The Annunciation

In the morning Gemma-Rose and I made vanilla cakes for the Annunciation. They were very quick and easy. I had a lot of fun. When we had finished the cakes we made yes cards. Yes cards are little hearts with yes written on them for Mary said yes to God and so should we. 

How to make the yes cards

1.                  Find two heart shaped things to draw around, something to colour them in with and some glitter if you have any.

2.                  Draw around the bigger heart shaped thing on to a piece of card and then around the smaller heart shaped thing twice and write yes on them. When we made them Charlotte wrote in fancy writing that came from a book.

3.                  Colour in the writing.

4.                  Then decorate with flowers, hearts or whatever you think would make them            

look nice.

5.                  Put some glitter on them and let them dry.

6.                  Draw around the little heart shaped thing a few more times.

7.                  Then write yes on them.

8.                  When you are done with the big one and the two small hearts put a hole at the top of the hearts and at the bottom off them and string them up together with some beads at the bottom of the last one.

9.                  When the little hearts are done, string them up too with beads at the bottom.

Thank you for reading, Sophie