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Reckless Decision?
Ooh, it’s getting thinky now 😮 Come back tomorrow to read the next bit – or read it all now! 😉 ************************************ vegan, vegetarian, conspiracy theory, mystery, collage, art, creative writing, children’s story, juvenile fiction, humour
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Unprotected minds
What a daring investigator she is – caring not about her own safety, doing whatever it takes to bring the rebels to justice 😮 Next instalment tomorrow, or read the whole story now 😀 ************************* vegan, vegetarian, vegan story, vegan children’s story, humour, art, collage, suspense, mystery, conspiracy theory
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APPROACH WITH CAUTION
…. Continues tomorrow Or read it here now 🙂 **************************************** vegan story, vegan children’s story, humour, vegetarian, creative writing, art, collage, conspiracy theory
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Miss Blackett and the Government Functionary
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“DO NOT TRUST ANYONE”
Rejoin Apostrophe Blackett et al on Monday 🙂 Have a good weekend 😀 If you don’t want to wait you can read the whole code-cracking story now 😮 ********************************** vegan, vegan story, vegetarian, vegan children’s story, conspiracy, mystery, codes, ciphers, art, craft, collage, paper crafts, humour
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“The lies are everywhere”
Ooh, clever, clever. Continues tomorrow 😉 And here’s the whole story 😀 ******************** vegan, vegetarian, vegan story, vegan children’s story, conspiracy, mystery, fiction, juvenile fiction, codes, ciphers, collage, art, paper crafts
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Suspect: Astrid Glass
Now, that’s suspicious! 😮 Story continues tomorrow or you can read it all now 🙂 ************************* vegan, vegetarian, vegan fiction, vegan conspiracy story, vegan mystery, vegan children’s story, codes, ciphers, encryption, collage, paper crafts,
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Ciphertext Discovered!
Ooh, intrigue! Story continues tomorrow … or you can read the whole thing here now 🙂 ********************** vegan, vegetarian, vegan story, creative writing, collage, vegan children’s story, art, paper, paper crafts
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Mystery and codes and stuff
The Rebel Gang and the Number Ciphers starts here tomorrow! Don’t miss this code-cracking tale of mystery and intrigue! 😉 *************** vegan, vegetarian, children’s story, juvenile fiction, short story, vegan story,
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We Wish You A Merry Vegan Christmas
See you next year 😀 ❤ ❤ ❤ ****** Kingthings Gothique font by Kevin King available for download from font squirrel Jingle Bells – Country Take from http://www.freexmasmp3.com/
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Vegan Chocolate: Organic, Fair Trade, chunks of cruelty-free happiness!!!
iChoc: the great taste of a clean conscience 😀
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And then there was Denzel
The Anderson family are not complete without Denzel so here he is 😀 I followed this free pattern of a Scottie dog by Sue Stratford and made him look as much like Denzel as I could. I knitted him in white and stitched on the orange colour after he was sewn and stuffed. He’s a bit…
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Meet the Family
Old Red is fully furnished and ready to be enjoyed by the Andersons – so where are they? Where are the Andersons? Oh look, here they are: Miranda knitted Aiden and Cara and Casey and Brietta, and it didn’t take her long. She got the pattern from loveknitting.com where it is free to download. It’s…
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The Andersons’ Knitted bus: The End
You may have noticed that in the end the bus isn’t furnished exactly as shown in the story. That is due to the fact that it has the proportions of a camper van because of the pattern I used. This Old Red is therefore not long enough to fit in all the furniture I’d planned to…
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The Andersons’ knitted bus Part Six: Woodburning Stove
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The Andersons’ knitted bus part five: The floor and the wheels again
If you look back at Part 3 of the bus-making process you will see how I started work on the wheels and the floor. This is how I finished them: It turned out after all that the toothbrushes weren’t quite long enough to use as a single axle between two wheels so I used four…
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The Andersons’ Knitted Bus, Part 4: a bed for Mr and Mrs
First you need a large, empty matchbox. Find some decorative paper that looks like it would make good-looking bedding … … and wrap up the matchbox like a birthday present. Then find another matchbox. Measure it and mark the middle. Take out the drawer and cut the insides and outsides in half. Now you have…
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The Andersons’ bus part three: some wheels, half a floor and a repetitive strain injury
It’s perhaps not as cool as a sports injury but, when you’re too excited to pace yourself, a repetitive strain injury is just as inconvenient. I have been knitting for several hours a day for about two weeks with no ill effects but after making the bus’s wheels I had such bad shoulder pain that…
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Andersons’ Knitted Bus – Part 2
For Part 1 click here 🙂 Ok, on Wednesday I got as far as sandwiching the stiff card between the inside and outside of the two long sides of the bus, so on Thursday I did the same with the front and back ends: As with the long sides of the bus yesterday, I drew…
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Knit the Andersons’ bus!
Click for Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Denzel the dog 🙂 I found this fantastic pattern online and decided to have a go at adapting it to make The English Family Andersons’ bus 😀 The beauty of this pattern is that the bus can be played with inside and…
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Make your own Reflecto Girl doll
Here’s how: First, find a pattern. I used this one but there are plenty of others to choose from, including lots of free ones you can download. So, I won’t give you pattern details, you can just download whichever pattern you fancy and then make her look like Reflecto Girl. If you don’t know how to…
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Luke Walker’s notebook
Available from Amazon 😀 *************** children’s book, children’s notebook, vegan notebook,
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Furious
“That’s to tell you what the shoes are made of. That’s the symbol for man made material,” she explained, pointing to one of the shapes on the label, “and that’s the symbol for leather. So the soles of these shoes – the bit you walk on – are made of synthetic, man made material,…
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Wouldn’t have had to do this with plimsolls!
So Luke had new shoes. Mum said it would be a good idea to wear them around the house for an hour on the first day, then two hours the next, gradually increasing the time until they were comfortable enough to wear all day. “Wouldn’t have had to do this with plimsolls,” thought Luke as…
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Luke Walker and the New Shoes – begins today!
Luke Walker and the new shoes Luke was having a stressful day. “It’s not fair!” he thought, “I don’t want new shoes; I don’t need new shoes.” He looked down at his left plimsoll for proof and was satisfied that he could hardly see his big toe. “In fact,” he said out loud, “I’m sure if…
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More about turkeys
and there’s lots more interesting facts about turkeys here, including the fact that, in the wild, baby turkeys stay with their mother all year and, though turkeys habitually roost (sleep) in trees, safe above ground level, babies are unable to fly for their first couple of weeks so their mother stays with them on the…
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See the sky
And they lived happily ever after 😀 **************** Read the whole story here 😀 ********************** vegan children’s story, vegan Christmas story, turkeys, animals, birds
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Just then …
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Everybody’s gone
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Three months later …
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Be brave
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Big Blue Sky revisited
Big Blue Sky has been digitally remastered (I don’t really know what that means but it sounds good 😉 ) – actually it’s got a new font and a new illustration and some new cover art – so I thought, seeing as it’s that time of year again, we’d re-tell Clarence and Luca’s story. It…
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I wrote a book
I wrote a book about some birds, With pictures in and also words. Brother birds who love each other, And want to be free together. The birds are turkeys, big and fat, The farmer makes them fat like that. He makes them fat to kill and eat, For those who think they are just meat.…
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A Story for Halloween
** Gil Thompson shut down his computer, put his notepad and pens in his desk drawer and took his empty coffee cup to the dishwasher. “See you Monday Terri,” he said to his colleague as he picked up his briefcase and headed for the door. Teresa was engrossed in her work and took a moment…
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30 ways to make a panda out of stuff you already have in your house – part 1
Make your own collage panda – the possibilities are endless! 😀
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The End?
************************** Oh dear, it’s not looking good for planet Earth and all its inhabitants. If you’d like to try to help the bewitched break the spell you could do as Maud suggests and share this story far and wide. The children of non-vegan parents who are caught up in the spell could be helped to…
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Gruesome Hocus Pocus
Story concludes tomorrow but, if you don’t want to wait, find it now on the Fairy Tales page 🙂 ********************************* vegan fairy tale, vegan story, vegan children’s story, vegan, vegetarian, environment, wicked witch, global warming, animals, animal rights
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Recitation Location
continues tomorrow, or find it on the fairy tales page now 😀 ******************************* vegan fairy tale, vegan story, vegan children’s story, vegan, vegetarian, environment, wicked witch, global warming, animals, animal rights
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Time to revitalize
continues tomorrow, but if you want to read the whole fairy tale now, just pop over to the Fairy Tales page 😀 ******************************* vegan fairy tale, vegan story, vegan children’s story, vegan, vegetarian, environment, wicked witch, global warming, animals, animal rights
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Out of the mouths of babes
continues tomorrow but if you want to go to the Fairy Tales page and read the whole story now, you can 🙂 ********************************* vegan fairy tale, vegan story, vegan children’s story, vegan, vegetarian, environment, wicked witch, global warming, animals, animal rights
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The Spell
continues Monday but if you don’t want to wait, you know what to do 😉 What? Oh, it’s on the Fairy Tales page 😮 **************************** vegan fairy tale, vegan story, vegan children’s story, vegan, vegetarian, environment, wicked witch, global warming, animals, animal rights
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Manipulation
continues tomorrow but if you don’t want to wait you can find the whole story on the fairy tales page 🙂 ******************** vegan fairy tale, vegan story, vegan children’s story, vegan, vegetarian, environment, wicked witch, global warming, animals, animal rights
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Dependent
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Her plan was working so well
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The Wicked Witch’s Plan To Get Rid Of Everyone begins here
continues tomorrow … 😀 *************************************** Once upon a time, high on a mountain peak, surrounded by fog night and day, lived a wicked wicked witch. She was tall and thin and had long bony fingers. Her fingernails were green and she had a hard heart from which her purple blood ran cold. She awoke when…
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Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
It’s way past time for a new Fairy Tale and, since we’re approaching Halloween it’s the perfect time. So, on Monday, we’ll begin a scary new tale by Maud Earnshaw, illustrated by Beatrice Wilberforce: The Wicked Witch’s Plan To Get Rid Of Everyone Ooh, I’ve got shivers 😮 And, just to get you in the…
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How to break the witch’s spell
Watch it on YouTube, give it a thumbs up and, most importantly, SHARE IT! 😀 ********************** vegan, vegan video, animals, animal farming, global warming, environment
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Presents!!!
But before they sat down to tea, Kauri gave Grandpa his present. “Happy Birthday Grandpa, I made this for you,” he said. “Oh thank you Kauri,” said Grandpa when he’d unwrapped it, “I just love it!” And Myrtle gave her present to Grandpa. “Happy Birthday Grandpa,” she said, “I made this for you.” “Oh thank…
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Time for tea!
By then it was time to get ready for Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday tea. Everyone was very excited. There were crisps and cookies and mini pizzas; there were crackers and pasta salad and pineapple on sticks; and the big birthday cake, made entirely by Cedro, was the centrepiece. ************* continues tomorrow 😀 but if you don’t…