Vicarious Thoughts

So I thought I’d disclose some of the ways I kill (or more accurately, massacre) time on the web. When it comes to the web comics I’m going to admit that Yes I have read all of these comics from the beginning and so you can imagine the amount of usable time lost from my […]

Miscellaneous I admit I’ve been tearing up at the most pathetic things recently (children’s TV shows even *sigh*) and this poignant advert on wearing your seatbelt called Embrace Life from the UK was excellent at getting a tear from my eye. I have to say that it was such a refreshing change from the ones […]

Craft Daisy Yellow has a link to instructions on how to do paper weaving with kids (via CraftyCrow). I remember doing this when I was a kid and it was more basic than these instructions. Then again with the plethora of coloured/textured/printed papers and other materials available as a result of the rise of scrapbooking […]

Playing catch up at the moment hence the out of whack dates :) Home Education The first link is entitled When Rote Learning Makes Sense and I came across this blogpost via Why Homeschool and the part of the article they included in their blogpost really resonated with me as well. I can remember clearly […]

Crafty Stuff These bunny finger puppets (via Craftzine.com) are cute and the instructions are clear and make it look like quite a simple project, even going to suggest a set of them can be knocked out in an evening. The materials look like they shouldn’t be hard to find at our closest Spotlight – though […]

Pretty impressed with myself that I managed to take this photo using the manual settings and it only took 3 photos to get the right settings and start tweaking. :)

… filling the house with that hot buttery, yeasty smell. Too bad smell-o-vision isn’t a reality.

Still labouring away on 101 in 1001 revamp, 2010 Goals and maybe a little LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online). :P

I said goodbye to my comfy couch in my office today, and hello to two new items of furniture. Daughter and I made a trip to our closest Warehouse Stationery and grabbed their Student Desk and Chair package. She was quite excited about having her own swivel chair and wanted to be the sole driver […]

This is today’s photo; the tip of an Acanthus Flower, with added cobwebs, viewed through my office window. The leaves of the Acanthus, or Bear’s Britches as it is colloquially known (I’m guessing it’s an English thing), my Classics teacher taught us, was the plant which the leaf is shown on the Corinthian column. The […]