I have had a horrible week. My dad suffered a heart attack, and then a massive stroke and died very suddenly on Thursday. It happened in Bournemouth, mum and dad were on their way back from holiday. I went back to Brighton with my mum and sister and then had to rush back to Bristol as my son James (7) fell off the monkey bars at school, badly breaking his left arm just above the elbow (he’s left handed typically!). He needed surgery to...

I am really looking forward to Monday. The children are at school, and I am at home! I shall have time to play with my clay I hope!I remembered the other day that I had set up a facebook Cara Jane business page but never done anything with it. I have put some photos there now (don’t worry nothing you haven’t seen already – they’ll be posted here and flickr first) and will try and keep up to date with events too. Please...

My children made present for their teachers to say thank you for such a wonderful year (they have both had amazing teachers this year lucky things!). I managed to persuade them to make spoons instead of necklaces, much more useful. Here they are:My daughter who is 5 made all these things. She has 5 adults who work in her class and she adores them all! Her actual teacher got one of the flowery spoons and the necklace.My son who is nearly 7 made...

It is time to announce the winners of my giveaway.Prize 1Thanks to all of my followers, I am sorry you couldn’t all win. The random number generator picked follower 14. I counted up from the beginning (unfortunately the people with no google id go to the beginning so they had to count as numbers 1 – 4 even though they weren’t my first 4 followers) – so I make number 14 Flowermouse. I am delighted to be sending this...

I don’t seem to have had time to play with my clay for nearly a whole week now – I’m getting twitchy! Hopefully tomorrow I will get some time. I am thinking of trying to challenge myself to try out some of the many tutorials and projects I have from books and the Internet. I love to read them and look at the pictures but for some reason very rarely actually use them. I am going to commit to doing at least 1 a month and sharing...