I can't quite seem to get anything finished right now. In fact, I've planned a few blog posts in the last couple of weeks, but just can't seem to see things through to the page. Boo has been through a string of minor ailments, and has kindly shared the last one with me. Only a cold but, having no recourse to decongestants thanks to being preggers, it ain't much fun. And pregnancy related nausea and fatigue has returned as I entered the third trimester. Oh joy.
Enter Dadda Boo, who has been working around the clock in the face of extreme pressure at work in recent weeks. Inspired by the 'mushroom stools' in the kids' exploratorium area of the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre during a visit with the Boo yesterday, upon returning home he fashioned this for her:
One and a half hours and he's made something from start to finish. For a while, he's been drying out and finishing tree stumps for use and decoration around our home so he chose one as a base. A circular base for the top of the mushroom was then cut from a scrap of board we already had. Mining my textiles stash, we found some brown fleece left from Boo's teddy bear costume I sewed her for Halloween, and some batting which was used to pad the seat. The only items that had to be purchased were the brackets for fixing the seat to the base. That's what I call resourceful.
We brought the stool into Boo's play space, and within minutes she was transforming it. Not quite in the way we were expecting... it had a blue silk draped over it and became a sea.
I can see lots of scope for play with the mushroom - a home for some small creatures, a climbing structure for toy and child alike.... we'll have to see what she comes up with.
With all this productivity going on in the house, I couldn't be outdone and resolved to complete something....some slippers for Boo.
These slippers were a super-simple knit from A Second Book of Knitting for Children. Super simple, but I was faffing around with the leather I used for the sole for too long, as I was trying to figure out how to punch the right size hole in it... in the end I just needed the right needle to sew it on. Boo loves her embellishments, so I needlefelted some little flowers to go on top.
Right, bring on all those unfinished projects.
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