Making the most of stormy days

The Somerset Levels underwater

The past month or so has seen Britain battered by storms and flooding across many regions, especially the South West. Even though this means that we've been stuck in our flat quite a lot, we've got up to some lovely things, and consider ourselves very lucky.

Newlyn,Cornwall

Sennen, Cornwall

Salt Dough Creations

Hand and Foot Prints inside box frames

Salt Dough Recipe

1 Cup of Flour

1 Cup of Table Salt

1/4 Cup of Water

Food colouring of your choice

Mix the flour and salt together. Add the water and a few drops of food colouring, as much or as little as you want depending on the depth of colour that you want to create. 

If you don't want to use food colour you could paint them at the end of the process if you preferred.

Knead the mixture together until the colour is even - or keep it as a marbled effect. Pull of chunks and roll into balls. Flatten out with your hands or a rolling pin. Don't roll it too flat. Have some wet wipes ready to clean hands and feet before you start printing as baby will of course try to put their hands in their mouth, which would not be good if covered in salt. Press hands and feet into the discs of dough. Make holes in them if you wish to hang them. You could print or write your baby's name on them at this point too if you wanted. 

Place them on some greaseproof paper on a baking tray (or just dust some flour on a tray). Bake them in a pre-heated oven at 100 degrees F for 2 hours. Be careful not to bake for too long or they will burn and discolour.  Apparently you can nuke them in the microwave for 3 minutes instead, however I've not tried this.

You could use some super glue to attach the disc inside a box frame. I bought some inexpensive ones from Wilkinson's. Good gifts for friends and family!

Box frames to use for keepsakes

I've kept the pregnancy test stick, Eve's hospital tags and tiny clothes which no longer fit her as I wanted to put them inside box frames. I thought they would be nice for her to see when she is a bit older.









My mum kept my pink card hospital tag. I remember that I used to love looking at it when I was small as it was such an interesting -looking thing. Unfortunately now they are printed onto white plastic, not as cool as the days of old, but good to keep none-the-less.

Bath-time

We've been having more baths to get Eve used to the water, as we're hoping to take her swimming soon.

Eve enjoys playing on her mat 

My cheeky wonder!

When Daddy is at home he feeds her and plays with her before work

Eve has started wearing her baby sleeping bag during the night-time. It's really cosy and keeps her safe and warm.  On the eve of her ninth week birthday she slept completely through the night for 8 hours, and has kept doing so for the last few nights. Fingers crossed this continues!