baking and craftng

We had a long weekend and it was so odd really. We had two really grotty days sandwiched in between 2 glorious ones. Needless to say the grotty ones were really difficult and we were all liked caged animals, snapping at each other and roaming around for things to do. In weather like that we always do lots of baking (and therefore eating) and crafting.

I let Rebe bake ALONE for the first time. She used this book, all the kids love it and often read it over and over. Each step is illustrated and the words are easy to read. I asked Rebe to read the recipe to me first so she knew what she was going to do and then I let her go. I sat down round the corner, in the room, but not. 

and I knitted away on her rainbow jumper while she baked.

 and she was so so proud. I remember the first time my mum trusted me to bake alone and funnily enough I baked jam tarts too. In fact this weekend Rebe has baked no less than 3 batches of jam tarts (though it's not her fault, she says Benny forced her too!)

 This is the other baking that was done...

 ...which was fine, but then of course they got carried away and I found they had thrown mud at the house and each other and everything had to be hosed down...yes including the kids!

I have been doing lots of crafting too. I am making this little dolly for the craft along I've been doing through my Under Rainbows Face book page.

I've also finished a pair of baby dolls...

 twins :-) I'll share a pic of them soon :-)
Another good thing that happened this weekend was that I ran a 5km fun run to raise money for Rebe's school. I was so proud of myself, I have been walking quite a bit of late and would really love to do more running again. Perhaps this is the start!
Hope you had a good weekend :-) x