At home with the J and Ps

There's been a fair few grey and miserable days recently round our way.  What better way to spend such a day than to do a bit of crafting.  Even Mr J and P got in on the act.

For Xmas, I bought Mr J and P this:

Magical Menagerie by a Japanese artist, Junzo Terada. 

You get 20 animal models on good quality, extra strong card and you simply pop out the pieces and fit the matching slots together.  No scissors or glue needed! 

A penguin in its flat form

So simple, in fact, that even a total dim-wit could manage it.  NOT that I'm suggesting in any shape or form that Mr J and P is a dim-wit but you get my drift.  It's sooooo easypeasy.

Take a look at what Mr J and P and Little Miss put together:

The cat and its ball has to be my favourite

Cute monkey complete with bunch of bananas

A penguin (left) and peacock (right) in case there's any doubt!

Sweet ickle birdy wirdies

Cool huh?

As this activity only took minutes to do, the pair of them decided to do some mosaicing.  Two Xmases ago, I bought a mosaic kit for kids whereby you can decorate small pieces of MDF to make cool coasters.

This is what they did:

Mr J and P's on the left; Little Miss' on the right

When I casually mentioned that the orange one had the look of a crocheted granny cushion cover , Little Miss J and P remarked "Hopefully, not one of yours, mum".  The cheek of the child!  She is, of course, referring to my retro creation pictured here once more for your delectation and if you fancy a good laugh:

If you're wondering what I was doing amidst this hive of activity, I was sewing two single candy stripe sheets (one slightly damaged) to make one double one and, with the remaining material, I made two pillow slips.  Oooh, I do like a bit of candy stripe bedding.

On a completely different note, the lovely Elizabeth from MakingGoodUse sent me a wooden handled kitchen knife to add to my vintage wooden handled kitchen utensil collection (thank you so much, Elizabeth).  I now have a whole 3 items in my collection!

I am, of course, on the lookout for more.  The problem is how to display them.  I thought I would hang them up in our kitchen but none of them have hanging holes.  Mr J and P has offered to drill a hole in the handles.  You can imagine what I said to that, can't you? 

I was also the lucky winner of a giveaway by Rachael from CleverCheshireCats .  Isn't this crocheted pincushion stunning?  I love it!

One last thing, get a load of Mr J and P's monsterous parsnip:



Fnar, fnar...

 And with that, dear readers, I'll love you and leave you.  TTFN.