Can’t believe January is already over. We have been busy with some of the lovely craft work Santa entrusted us with. We worked on toys Dashi and Tweak. When they were partially done, they served as puppets. Now they are sewn up and are stuffed toys!
Other interesting things happened, as they usually do. One of our chickens laid an egg with no shell! Now that’s a new one!
An egg laid without a shell – ooey and gooey!
One fine morning I strolled into the Farmer’s market and sampled black currant jam, and was hooked! Unfortunately the jam was made with sugar, but the farmer got me some frozen black currants, and so the girls and I went ahead and ventured into the big, bad world of jam-making. We used rapadura. The process was messy, but the results pretty good. According to Leena, my jam is the best because it is the stickiest!
And then Leena turned 5! She had her first birthday party at Discovery space and it was a lot of noise and running about. We had a great time.
For Leena’s birthday we made characters from the show “Octonauts” using oven baked clay. The days leading to her birthday were pretty fun and creative.
Johan has been busier than busy with solar and other projects. More pictures to come soon but here’s a couple of the man in action. Spot him in one of them (if you can)!
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Today I decided to break from my morning routine, which starts at five in morning to gift me some relaxing time. I took out 2016 October reader’s digest gifted by Nupur. It didn’t gave me the desired result I was looking for. I then opened your blog and found the interesting world you are living in. It is amazing either your presentation or it is really as it is. What a fun for me. I didn’t realise how one hour passed.
The award winning performance of your chicken. It is equally great the neat work of lifting the fragile material and placing it in the plate. The toys are extraordinary. We enjoyed the art and the way it is displayed.
Few days back we visited exhibition at Nampally. Visited Kashmiri dry fruit Shop. Saw something resembling black currant you described. It is called ‘Munakka’, I guess. Your mouth watering jam is tempting. Leena is correct. More stickier the material is, tastier it is.
I could guess Johan at roof top from his all brown dress. The other person is dressed in colour.
Overall we felt as part of the family we otherwise miss a lot. Thanks for nice descriptions and very telling photographs.
He he. Fun to read your long comment! Please keep them coming.