A bit mor craftyness

Yesterday's scores:

• Gills: no
• Simpsons: yes
• Tesco: no, and they went to Aldi. I refewsd to go. Dilly went tho. Huh.
• Nose Hugs Surprizisity Score: 9 LBBBJ is gettin farster /10
• Day Score: 7.2122257 /10

HULLO NOT-A-BEARS!

A cuppol ov yu sed they wud do butterflys for my crarfty challenge.

This is Chewy's butterfly! Good, innit?An this wun waz mayde by Rue, a.bananna's dorter! (Note the perpol eyelashes.) Yu can see mor imidges of Rue's grayte crarft day on Velvet Ginger's blog.Now, I'm SHOR that sumwun else told me they had dun sumthing for the crarfty challenge but I carnt find it now. I bow down to the flor in appollogy..... wunce agen I spot a choklit that's rolld under the taybol.... I shall nab that layter! Ahem! An if yu hav sent me a note ov yor fine werk, I'm very sorry- an pleez pleez pleez send it agen!

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Meenwile..... skool broke up for summer! So Daddy is on hollyday now at larst. Heer ar sum ov the Thankyu Cards an notes an presents he got from children in his clarss:Our fayvrits ar theez choklits cos they ar Bear-size bars:Daddy's larst nayme is a long Irish nayme that starts wiv "Mc". It's hard for children to say, so he tells them to call him "Mr Mac". Wun ov them had it payntid on sum choklit, in icing:

Sam waz kwite tayken wiv the box ov choklit eclairs. Theez ar toffees wiv Cadbury choklit in the middol. Yum!

Wun littol gerl calld Elenor bort a present wiv her own pennys. She choze a pot ov her fayvrit jam. I think it will be yummy on sum freshly bayked soda bred (hint hint, Mummy!)

He also got a cuppol ov new ties. Daddy Windowsill Bear put wun on:

Wen I cayme downstares this mornin this is wat I fownd. LBBBJ is waring the uther wun!! He wants to be like his Daddy! Hahaha!

Dilly sed she liket the labol on this wine best, cos ov the "wagon berd".

All in all not a bad stash, an we hav allreddy eeten lots ov the choklits!!

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Still no washin masheen.

Daddy haz tryd to chayse them up on the fone. It terns owt that the delivery men ar baysed heer in England but the company we bort off from the internet ar baysed in France an -wayte for it!- their custermer serviss peeps ar in Romania! An nun ov them ar talkin to eech uther.

So Daddy got annoyd on the fone an tryd to sort it all owt. THEN they sent an emayle to say they ar refundin his munny. He rang an sed, I don't want my munny, I want a washin masheen! An they sed a soopervizer wud call him bak. That waz abowt 3 hours ago....... methinks we mite go to Granny's for the weekend, an kidnap her masheen!!!

Bye fer now!!!!

Anuther new frend, an a new desk too!

Yesterday's scores:

• Gills: no- an yu kno wat? They playd thare ferst frendly ov the seeson the uther day an I dident kno abowt it- so I dident get my lukky kit on- an they lost! NOT A GOOD START.
  
• Simpsons: yes
• Tesco: no
• Nose Hugs Surprizisity Score: 9.5/10
• Day Score: 7.23126/10

HULLO NOT-A-BEARS!

Well as yu kno, I am a frendly type ov Bear, so I waz very pleezd to get an email from a fello Blogger-Bear arskin to be my frend!

This is TB-Wat a grayte hat!!! He sez, "This is a picture of me outside last winter."

Phew! I'm glad yu ar owtside. Our howse gets cold, but it never snows indors. (Wuddent that be grayte? Yu cud bild a snow-Bear an watch The Simpsons at the sayme time! Wow!)

I don't kno wat TB stands for yet! I wonder if he haz the sayme surnayme as me?? (Bear.) Hey ho! Wy not chek owt his blog? It's at tb_superstar.livejournal.com

(Wow! He's a superstar!!!)

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Oh! An anuther thing! I fergot to show yu my OWN crarfty challinge entry! Heer it is. It's a card. I sent it to Mrs Nesbitt an she sed she liket it alot.I drew the self-pawtrayte in gloo, then sprinkold gold embossin powder all over evrywhare!!

Wen Mummy had cleerd it up, there waz just sum stuk to the Bear pikcher. So then I needid to zap it wiv heet but Mummy won't let me yews the crarfty-hot-air-gun cos she sez I'm too littol. So I got Dilly to breath hot air on it, and ta-daaahhhh! A gold embost Bob! Wa-heyy!

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Remember wen Mummy startid this crarfty crayze, she werkt on the flor an got stuff all over the carpet.....................? Well we went lookin for a secund-hand desk for her. We dident want to spend too menny pennys on it cos she sed she wud ownly get gloo an stuff on it.

We went to a big secund-hand warehowse calld Emmaus. (I kept a look owt for sudden inspirayshuns on the roade to it but uther than hopin Daddy wud go to Tesco's arfterwerds I carnt reelly report enything speshol.) Emmaus collekts things uther peepol don't want, an wen sumwun buys it, they yews the munny to help the homeless.

ENYWAY. It waz a HEWGE warehowse full mostly ov old wardrobes so me an Grayum went an explord for seekrit werlds an lions. Meenwile, Mummy fownd a littol desk an chair. Wuns on weels. So they weeld them over to a bloke by a cup ov tea an arskt, "How mutch for theez?". Thare waz no price on them so they thort it mite be alot. But the man sed, "Ermmm.... £10". WOW! SO they bort them.

Wunce we got them home, we Bears gayve them a good chek over.

Looks like an old skool-desk, wiv a lift up lid. But the lid duzzent lift up! Insted it haz a dror underneeth an a tray that slides owt.

The legs fell off the chair, but Mummy bangd them in agen. She sez she duzzent mind, it jus maykes it a bit like a rokkin chair, an she likes that.

It's still a bargen! We think it's an old Drarftin Desk- we wer watchin CSI an the brown-haird laydy hoo speaks funny sed, "Wat abowt over thare by the Old Drarftin Desk?" an we all sed "HEY! HANG ON!" an had a close look cos it lookt jus like our new desk.

Arfter Mummy polisht it, the slopin top waz like a slide an me and LBBBJ and Sam had grayte fun on that!

Mummy iz enjoyin yewsin it fer crafty stuff, but still gets mess on the flor!

Bye fer now!

Crarfty Challenge

Yesterday's scores:

• Gills: no
• Simpsons: yes
• Tesco: yes
• Nose Hugs Surprizisity Score: 10/10
• Day Score: 7/10

HULLO NOT-A-BEARS!

Time to show yu wat a few peepol did for the crafty challenge!

Lynda waz ferst, an mayde this monster wiv an odd sok!

We had a diskushon bowt odd soks. There ar 60 millyun peepol in this country. If evrywun lost just 2 soks a yeer, that's 120 millyun missin soks. They must be SUMwhare. How cud yu miss a pile ov soks that big? Yu'd think they'd be markt on a map.

Next, Bumblevee mayde this wee doggy, calld Henry. I think he's fab.

Enywun else do enything? I think thare wer sum butterflys bein drorn, but I carnt remember if yu finisht them. If yu hav dun sumthing an I've fergotton, pleez forgiv me (I'm a bizzy Bear ov menny sponsibilitys) an send me yor link!!! I'll add the foto heer.

Bye fer now!

Things growin owt bak

Yesterday's scores:

• Gills: no
• Simpsons: yes- Chief Wiggam waz runnin abowt in his underpants!!!!
  
• Tesco: no
• Nose Hugs Surprizisity Score: 10/10
• Day Score: 7.229321/10

HULLO NOT-A-BEARS!

Sum peepol hav bin arskin bowt the sunflowers I plarntid. Oh deer. Erm, well. Sorry, but they all committid sueyside. Ha! Oh well. I thort I wud tayke a few pikchers for yu ov wat IS growin owt bak.

I won't carp on abowt the flowers. That's Dilly's department reelly. Sheez forever stikkin roses an stuff on her blog. No. I'm mor intrestid in things like herbs. They're intrestin. Sum ov them tayste nice, wile uthers provide a soft an nicely sentid wipe for wen I've had to nip behind the tree.

So heer we go-

This is wat I whare wen I do gardnin on a hot day. Pants an boots, like a Spartan. The hankercheef hat waz Mummy's idea (nagggg nagggg nagggg.)

The bak garden is a skware shaype.

This is from the bottom left corner:

This is from the bottom rite corner:

This is from the top left corner:

This is from the top rite corner:

Theez pots ar stuff that Mummy hassent fownd playsis to plarnt.Clokwise from me, sittin in sum Orange Thyme; then Ginger Mint, a small willow tree at the bak, Chamomile (wich Mummy luvs but Daddy thinks smells like cats), a small tree peony, "Buckler's Leaf" type sorrel, a pasque flower at the frunt, an in the middol pot thare is pineapple-sage an marjoram.

This spikey lookin herb is calld Toadflax. In the middol is Motherwort an at the bak is Southernwood, wich is nice an lemonny.

I don't mind theez flowers cos they ar diffrent. They ar a kind ov alium, wich is a kind ov unyunThey eevn smell a bit unyunny, an hav a sort ov bloo bit in the middol. The bees luv them!

The bees like this next herb, too. It's calld Valerian. Lots ov it gro all over arownd heer. This bit waz growin owtta the conkreet in the drive, an Daddy weedid it. Mummy sor him carryin it an sed, "Giv that heer, I'll hav that!" an plarntid it in the bak. It waz smaller than me in thoze days.

This next herb is calld Rue. I like it cos it's a blooey-green culler an it smells intrestin. Sort ov medisinny. Or like likkorish.

Yu hav to be careful as it can mayke sum peepol get a rash if they tutch it too much. I'm ok cos ov me ferrr.

This is the Crismoss tree from larst yeer. It's doin ok. I like to keep it fertilized.

This wun's calld Sweet Cicely. Oops! Lost me boot!

This next wun is Fennel, an it's kwite fluffy an tikkly an smells ov annaseed.

This littol wun won't ever grow big but it haz the strongest smell. It's Corsican Mint an I think it's kewt.

Theez ar calld PennyRoyal an ar minty. I'm hoppin on wun fut coz I've lost me boot agen!

This is Pot Marrygold. The wite bits ar berd poo. HAHAHAHA!

This is Bronze Bugle but it's ment to be mor red than this!!!

Now THIS is a yewssfoll wun! This is Sweet Woodruff, an iz a bit stikky so it's helpfoll wen a Bear needs extra help wiv a trikky wipe cos it haz grayte grippin kwallitys. Hehehehe!

Thoze larst few wuns ar in the Dark Corner. At the bak ov this corner, we stakt sum old wood an sum big cuttings from the tree....

Arfter a week, sum frogs had moovd in wun end, an sum bumblebees had moovd in at the uther! A woodmouse livs in this bit, too, an the hedgehog parsses this way at nite. I like this corner!

This is my berd-warterer. The dome part haz a hole at the bottom. Yu fill the dome wiv warter, put the sorcer on top, then flip it up-side-down reelly farst. Wunce it's this way up, the warter comes owt for abowt an inch. The berds can sip this an they get fresh warter for days, so it's handy for wen we go to Granny's.

Neerly finishd! This is Foxglove. I like it cos bees go rite up inside the flowers an all yu can see is their bottoms, wigglin!

Larst, this is Tansy an it smells lemonny. It issent bad tansy, like ragwort, it's a diffrent wun....

.............an .......... this is my Oak tree, wich I'm growin from a haycorn!!!!!

Well I hope yu enjoyd my tour ov wat's growin owt bak!!!

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Good luk wiv the arty-crafty challenge (see last post for detayles, but don't ferget yu can do enything, theez wer jus serggestchuns.)

Lynda haz allreddy dun hers!!! It's grayte- go look! HEHEHEH!

I'll copy a pikcher (if that's ok?) ov eech wun dun an put them all on wun post. Shall we hav a cut-off dayte? How bowt 8th July?

Bye fer now!!!

Wa-heyyy!!!!!!

Yesterday's scores:

• Gills: nope
• Simpsons: yes
• Tesco: Yes, kwik vizit ownly, but I did get a ride in the trolley. A small boy neer the bred waz carryin a Bear. He had the sayme sort ov ferrr as me, wich meens he is very well huggd. I did a hi-5 wiv him as we went parst.
  
• Nose Hugs Surprizisity Score: 10 HA! Got Daddy TWICE!! /10
• Day Score: 8.13692/10

HULLO NOT-A-BEARS!

Sorry for the delay in bloggin! Muumy's been gettin crarfty. I don't meen sheez upta sumthing. Tho she yewzerly is. No. I meen sheez doin arty crarfty stuff. Sheez bin maykin felt an drorin an maykin stuff an gettin gloo an cardbord an gerly bits ov ribbon evrywhare.

A wile ago, Granny lent us sum old fotoes from wen she waz littol. They ar very very old, from bak wen evrything waz blak-an-wite, befor culler waz inventid. Well, larst nite Mummy waz maykin an album to put them all in, for a serprize for Granny. She werkt on the flor an look at the mess she mayde!

Daddy sed, "Don't worry; it's creaytiv mess!!!"

Can yu see Sam in this pikcher? He gets into evrything. Note also the cup ov tea (gon cold) an discardid soks.

Don't worry, she did cleer it all up.

Enyway. It's not all bad! Mrs Nesbitt herd abowt Mummy's carftiness an sent her a big parsol full ov blank cards so she can mayke cards for peepol- AND AND AND!!!!! SHE PUT A LITTOL PARSOL INSIDE FOR ME!!!! WA-HEYYY!

Evryeun waz intrestid to see wat it waz!

Next to my nayme it sed "forever frends".

See? I told yu Sam got into evrything! Heez well curious, he is.

It's sumthing woolly!

Sam sed, "Iz it a prayer shorll???"

No, Sam! It's a SCARF! Look, see?! Wa-hheyyy!!

THANKS, MRS NESBITT!!!

Yu can never hav too menny scarfs. Yu shuddent just hav wun. I had jus wun wunce, an I put it on the bannista, an it disappeerd! It's known rownd heer as the grayte Scarf-Went-Missing-From-Der-Bannista-Mystery.

Mummy yewzd wun ov the blank cards Mrs Nesbitt sent to mayke her a card. Heer it is. I helpt her mayke the "kite" owt ov wool. She needle-feltid it. I dident mind helpin cos it's not pink. But I'm goin to do my own thank-yu card layter!

WA-heyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crarfty Challenge

Wen did yu larst mayke sumthin carfty? It's grayte fun. If yu havent dun sumthing for a long time, dror sumthing today! Heer's a list of ideas to dror. If enuff peepol do them an put them on their blogs I'll do a gallery post ov them!!!

• Do a flor plan ov a room in yor howse such as a trezer hunter wud yews. Wat duzz "X" mark the spot to? Maybe it's yor seekrit cookie stash....
  
• Dror yor pet if yu hav wun, or wun that yu wud like.
• Do a berd or a butterfly but mayke up all the cullers an patterns.
• Mayke up a new animol an nayme it.
• Do a pikcher ov wat yu see owt ov yor windo. Do a windo yu don't look owt ov much.
  
• Do a self-pawtrayte.
• Dror yor fayvrit food.

Good luk!!!!!!!!!!! Let me kno wen yu do sumthing!!!

Bye fer now!