One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 26 – Soy and Spinach
In an effort of trying to eat healthy without killing our budget in Tokyo we try to use a few simple items, perhaps “splurge” on one item every now and then and try to create something delicious. We also try to do this in an Iron Chef kind of way by using one main item for the whole meal.
This time we got spinach. While we don’t race eachother for completing dishes, we do work as a good team by splitting the work -so I made pasta with spinach and soy cream sauce while Jeff made rolled chicken with spinach and cheese.
What a surprisingly delightful meal it was! It’s a shame we wouldn’t market well as Iron Chefs….mainly because I would be Iron Chef Canada, Poland and Japan while Jeff would be Iron Chef Indonesia and New Zealand….. (>_<)
Anyway, this is the end result:
For those of you who are interested, the recipe will be posted soon!
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 25 – English Class Quilt
I had a lesson to prepare for the letter “Q” and from what I found online, it’s a letter that many people have trouble with and choose just to hand the children printouts -I’m not a huge fan of giving little ones printouts, so I decided to plan something fun and creative for the kids.
I made a felt quilt *^_^*
I purchased one large felt sheet with a few packs of pre-cut colourful squares.
After arranging and sewing the squares, they looked like this.
Then, using children’s pastel crayons, I decorated the white side. *The crayons will be given to the children so they can decorate one square by themselves*
As I always love to use two shades for words, I outlined with a darker shade and coloured the words in with a lighter one….
…decorated it a little more for fun….
…placed it outside in, sewed along the sides and flipped it back out.
I purposely left the bottom edge open, so i can show the children the inside…
like this! My kids are always so curious about the materials I make for them that they have to hold and observe them.
I’ll see how it goes this Sunday!
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 24 – Strawberries yay! *^_^*
Had some lovely strawberries left from Valentine’s -and for us, it’s a very special thing to have since they are quite expensive here!
So great!
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 23 – What to Make With These?
We have been collecting these great chocolate/caramel wrappers and now I’m wondering what I can make with them… have to think of something fun and pretty!
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One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 22 – Happy Valentine’s Day!
What a lovely relaxed day of -no work! The weather was chilly and rainy so we stayed in to watch movies and shows, try to make some silver jewellery and just chill.
I also got PURPLE flowers (my favorite) *^_^*
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 21 – Love The Smurfs!
For any of you who have an iPhone and loved the Smurfs as much as I did when I was little, then you’ll love this cute game. The graphics and souds are really cute with simple games and storyline to keep things interesting.
Build houses for your Smurfs
Grow Crops
Play Different Games for Coins
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 20 – New Setup!
How exciting!
Since I’m now typing away for hours on end each day, it’s pretty bad for my “bad arm”….so we got a shiny new setup with a comfortable keyboard and mouse. Quite comfortable -this should really make my writing more fun *^_^*
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 18 – Children’s Explorer Kit
Today we got together a fun little gift for my boyfriend’s nephew. His big 5th Birthday, so we wanted to get something creatively put together.
I’m always a fan of putting together packages of different items that work together, so here’s what we came up with:
An Explorer’s Kit!
First, we found this cute pair of children’s binoculars and found a camera case with strap that it could fit into.
Next, we had to get something for him to write his “findings” in, so we managed to find a set of three mini ring notepads. To go with that, we found a multi-color pen to jot down different color-coded notes (or squiggly drawings…) and finally, for his top-secret findings, we found a Doraemon magic ink pen with blacklight!
I also made an Explorer’s checklist (with a helper’s version for his brother) just by getting clipart online and changing the main explorer’s colours a bit so the boys don’t have matching ones.
Then we packed it up in a cute box, and done! Total cost for the kit = ¥630 ($7.63 USD)
Before he gets it in the mail, we’re going to send a quick e-mail with a few riddles to get him to try and guess what his gift is. Hopefully he likes it!
