Feeling like a sloth, on a rainy day in July?

So the fuzzies went on a walking with bio-father, and mummy was left with all the baby sitting. Mary left instructions for specific toys, Matty texted to ask if hers were ok, and when I looked at Daisy's collection of favourites I saw that her newest toy had a note for me and Mike ...

I love him so much I desided to ask daisy if we could collaborate on a little project. She thought that was a fabulous idea so on a wet Saturday I had my paints out. Some of the paints pre date all my children. 

Eventually, layering paint and chalk, tracing and collating and embellishing just a little, a new sloth was born.

I'm going to varnish him tomorrow when the PVA is really dry and then I'll hang him up. I can't wait for daisy to see him! But then, I shouldn't try to hurry things. After all, a sloth knows how to chill...

Heads and tails ....

More barn owl making, as one will be on display at the library from the 24th of February ....

I love it when the recognisable parts start to appear ...

And Owls Need Wings!

What is this?

Some lovely texture!

in my dining room ...

a red themed 'art for the hands' mat ...



a nice cheerful blue one ...



wait a minute, whats that on the calendar?



The little-misses-february, it's us!

these two mats are ready to meet the public at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition at the library for easter week ...

WIP - Art For The Hands ...

do you use your ironing board as a table ?


wow, neat writing on the blackboard, i could have been a teacher! haha ... the girls like my writing and point out how steve's is a bit wrong sometimes e.g. r's with flat tops instead of nice curves ...

mary can count to three, so she enjoyed these three shiney buttons ...



you can see this mat, and another to go with it at the Sue Ryder Care Art Exhibition next month.

cat themed art for the hands mat ....

this is tactile mat number 4, another one for june ...
i hope her friend likes it ....

art for the hands, again ...!

another tactile mat has been created ...


i wanted to put bright colours and contrasts in this for some one with poorer sight ...



"Hi Cat,

The Tactile toy just arrived and we ripped open the pack in our eagerness to have a look. It's SO GORGEOUS!

My daughter and I particularly love the purple satin back as that is one of our favourite colours. My husband noticed how that dinky lace pocket is in just the right spot for him Mum to slip her right hand into when the toy is on her lap. The bell is nice, too, just a sweet little tinkle of sound.

And it is so well made both in terms of being sturdy and being elegant and neat. Never in a million years could I have pulled that off.

Thank you for all your loving attention and skill.

I'll try to get a photo of the mother in law with it in the home and e-mail it to you. We were going to visit her today but it's snowing heavily there so we didn't go. Not sure if we will make it before Christmas now..."


so we will see if Audrey likes it perhaps sometime after christmas ...