The One About Inori

Yep… exams are over and done with.  Now it’s the time for an agonisingly long wait for  results and uni admission offers.

I was feeling down for a while as I found out that there is a high chance I won’t be getting into Bachelor of Med/Surgery. This is because my UMAT score is on the low side. I had 56 points and the lady at admissions said the lowest they had taken in so far for this coming year is 59 points. However, there is a glimmer of hope as another lady told me that I may have a chance as I am in a ‘special’ category but it would depend on my exam results.

So………. I am counting down 17 more days before results are released and 18 to 20 more days for the uni offers me a place. I have decided to put Bachelor of Nursing as my 2nd choice if I don’t make it into Bachelor of Med/Surgery.

This will be the longest month ever for me. All the waiting! I’m all nervous and jittery and stressed. On top of that, both kids and I are sick. We have the dreaded cold and cough. Chubbs even had fever for a day about a week ago and I spent the whole day cradling him in my arms.

Anyway, I will be spending my time dyeing wool and sewing bags for the shop. Progress is slow but steady. I can’t wait to update!

Few days back I gave Sunshine a treat by letting her dye some yarn with food colouring.

She chose green and blue dyes.

Looking very professional!

Monster green hands!

She’s showing us what a good job she did here!

Here it is, all dry and skeined. I will be teaching her to knit with it soon. Now she enjoys wearing the skein like a scarf and she hangs the skein on my spinning wheel. Hehe. I think she had fun because she’s been badgering me, “Mummy can I dye my wool please?”

Here’s a picture of Chubbs modeling the vest I finished quite some time back but didn’t outline the owl until now:

The yarn was leftovers from Nad’s jumper. Perfect vest for the warmer weather now!

Okay dokey. I will try to update again soon! I’ve just finished sewing a ring sling and will try to get pictures of it tomorrow.

I needed to get some homework done and desperately needed Sunshine and Chubbs to leave me in peace.

Nad brought Chubbs out to the library that day and I thought of something to keep Sunshine occupied.

With these ingredients:

I made play dough!

If you google around, you’ll find heaps of recipes for making home made play dough. McKenzie’s cream of tartar also had the recipe printed on the back! How thoughtful of them!

So I mixed the ingredients together:

Set it on medium heat.

Sunshine chose the pink food colouring.

This is how it looks like when it’s ready. It will congeal and become rubbery-ish.

QUICK, what do you think of when you see the word ‘PINK’????

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I think of  ‘elephant’.

How many of you think the same? Lol.

I made a pink elephant to test the new dough. It was great to work with!

Sunshine had fun:

So I managed to do some homework with her occupied with the pink dough. But oh! The temptations!!!!

I started to play with it too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Pardon the horrible picture. The sun goes down very early nowadays and it was dark when I took this photo.)

I also made a spastic person which reminds me of Lulu.

Just kidding.

And then I made peas in pods.

Yeah.. I had fun.

I did manage to complete my homework though…. (at 1am). T___T

Sunshine rolled some of the dough into fat strips and proudly declared, “Mummy it looks like poo poo!!”

Funny little woman, that girl….

I also gave her a plastic knife and spoon so she could practice her motor skills, cutting strips into tiny pieces. She puts them in her toy teacups and pretends that she’s cooking. (Please supervise your kid when they handle knives! Plastic or not!)

Because I’m nice, I’m going to list here the recipe for the dough:

- 1 cup plain flour
- 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1/2 cup salt
- few drops of food colouring
- 1 cup water

Mix all ingredients into a pot and put over medium heat. Stir until mixture congeals. Bring it off the heat and leave to cool. Err.. then you play with it.

There you have it – safe, cheap, homemade play dough for your little kid/s!

However safe it may be though, I don’t reckon you should encourage any child to eat it. :S   Chubbs isn’t allowed to play with it as he is only interested in putting things into his mouth right now.

I store the dough in an airtight food container and it’s been keeping well for 3 days so far. I reckon, like PlayDoh (the ones you buy in stores), it would dry up over time and all you have to do is to moisten it with some water.

Or make more in another colour.