… otherwise entitled ‘your wish is my command’, if you ask for Wall-E in hama beads you will have it!
Adapted for hama beads from this cross stitch pattern.
They did have shadows underneath them, too, but I kind of cocked that part up during ironing, so this is as good as it gets.
Didn’t get a chance to blog yesterday but we had a good day so I’m on catchup here.
I took Josiah swimming in the morning, and the girls for a change went to Grandma’s house with their workbooks. Grandma is in the process of starting her own consultancy business having stopped working where she used to work, so we’re looking forward to seeing a bit more of her, and the girls really enjoyed their morning. We stayed for lunch too, which was an added bonus!
In the afternoon we got creative with the famous edible Valentine’s cards … I think we will bring out the idea for other occasions as well, as it went down extremely well in this house, surprise surprise! We mounted our rice paper into cards as well which made them look a bit better and meant you could write inside them too – because our writing with icing turned out appallingly badly! Here are a couple of Anna’s creations …
Abbie made a card for her little friend Billy, and wrote in it beautifully. We delivered it after swimming this morning and Billy was very embarrassed, it was really funny! He has four older brothers and sisters, and they were calling him downstairs in that tone of voice that made it clear they were going to rib him mercilessly for having received a Valentine … but it was very sweet, I think he liked it really.
In the evening, Anna and I finally got round to getting out the bead loom that she had for her birthday. We both really enjoyed ourselves, and I was really pleased with how Anna cottoned on to using it, and translating her pattern from squared paper to the beads themselves.
I’m not quite sure how you finish things off yet so whether these actually manage to make bracelets (that was the intention) I’m not sure, but we had fun. And we’ve discovered another rather nice bead shop near the museum, where we’re off to this afternoon anyway so we’ll have to pop in and stock up (we only have one beading needle so need another one of those at least!).
The top one is mine (on the crummy loom made from a bead box lid … not recommended), the bottom one is Anna’s (on a proper loom with tightening bits at each end – much better). Hope it looks as impressive as it felt, given that to get that far took about an hour and a half!