Life in my houseful of boys

I've been working on getting things ready over on the new housefulofboys blog and, although I don't have everything quite how I want it yet, I think it's time to make the switch.
The new blog can be found at lifeinmyhousefulofboys.com
I'd love it if you could all follow me on over there and follow that one in whichever way you used to follow this one - blogger, bloglovin, email, rss......

Next month it will be 5 years since I started writing my blog.
5 years!
5 years since I wrote that very first post and wondered if anyone would be remotely interested in what I had to say!

Last week we were experimenting with a couple of free from Playdough recipes.
Alasdair (5) loves to play with playdough but shop-bought Playdough really irritates the eczema on his hands. Apparently the Playdough brand contains wheat, which must be part of the reason for the irritation, and is also not ideal now that Fraser (...

I mentioned last week that I have a couple of new crochet projects on the go.
When I finished the big stripey blanket I had little bits of each of the 16 colours leftover and I decided I would try and use them up.
First of all I thought about making granny squares out of a random order of the colours but that idea didn't really grab me. Then I remembered my old favourite, the Maybelle Flower Square (pattern here). I decided I would make the flowers out of each...