Something fishy...

One of my many obsessions is pufferfish... I think they are possibly the most comical fish of the underwater world.

I was given a Pom Pom kit by my mother as she knows that I need to keep busy. And the fish came in one of them along with a couple of other fish but the pufferfish needed to be made first!

The instructions were fairly easy to follow but I had to be very liberal with the fabric glue as the Pompoms were very difficult to stick stuff too. The hardest part was the spines as they were made out of small lengths of pipe cleaner which were then a challenge to stick.

However, I love it. And I can't wait to do the rest!

Under the sea...

When I told my husband that we were expecting our daughter the first thing he wanted to do was get the baby's room ready by painting a mural on the wall.

I left the design up to him and, because we didn't know the sex of the baby, he needed to find something that would suit either a boy or a girl.

He decided to do a sea scene...

As I have said before me and my husband are a bit batty about animals so he chose animals which we both like...

He drew the pattern on a piece of paper first all before tracing the pattern on the wall in pencil.

He then worked out what colours he needed and also looked through the half used pots of paint that we had left over from decorating the house when we moved in.

He then set to work.

After painting he then outlined the pictures in sharpie.

I love what he has done... It was a labour of love... What do you think?