Its nearly the end of the school year here in our bit of California. The kids actually only have three days left of school, which is shocking to me. Im sure it was last week that Ffion went off to he...
I know this is a little late to be of use to anyone for this year, but given that I have the template files to hand from making these on Friday night, I should post them before I either loose them to...
Squeee! My first kid lost her first baby tooth, and has her first gigantic horse sized adult tooth in her tiny mouth! So I havent posted the two Easter/Spring type posts I meant to this week because ...
I thought you might get a kick out of this craft for smaller children that I wrote about over at Alpha Mom, seeing as weve just entered spring in the northern hemisphere, and Easter is nearly here. A...
The last post I wrote was all about making the x-wing fighter pilot helmets from our bike helmets. This post is to share with you the hoodies that we made for the girls to wear with the helmets. I th...
Oh my goodness! Lets all stop getting ill ok? Just for a while? This last month has been a relentless torrent of snot and barf and squitty butts! Ive just put my back out as well, so although thankfu...
Heres a quick round up of all the possibly useful valentines type bits and bobs in the archives of Filth Wizardry for you. I was reminded the other day that I dont really have a great syste...
This is something we made almost eight months ago and I just havent found the time to post until now. Wed been to the Bay Area Maker Faire back in May 2011 and the kids had had a wonderful time...
Wheee! First craft project of 2012 that Ive written up! Heres a link to my latest post over at Alpha Mom. Pop on over to see how you can make a very simple hat design from a single paper plate, with ...
Well, were what, nearly three weeks into 2012 now and Im only just saying happy new year? It took us a while to reset after getting back from the UK, dashing up to Tahoe for a mates wedding immediate...
Hello my festive little wizards! Were over the pond at the moment. Just beat the jet lag and there have only been three major barfing incidents since we landed, and that, believe it or not is an impr...
Were off tomorrow to visit the family back in the UK! Whooo! Cant say Im looking forward to the long haul flights with more kids than grown ups, but at least these days Carys and Ffion are carrying t...
There are a couple of ways of preserving fall leaves that I keep seeing popping up on the blogs this time of year. One is painting them with Mod Podge, like Jean does with her daughter over at The Ar...
Another crafty thingumyproject for you that Ive written up over at Alpha Mom. Its an easy peasy lemon squeezy thanksgiving craft that should help keep the littlies busy at the dinner table and theres...
I know I only just mentioned a couple of posts ago that we still have our leaf rubbing mural from 2009 up in the kitchen, and really this is the right season to have it there too I suppose, but for s...
I wanted to post a couple of photos of our Halloween antics for you, because Id mentioned plans to make costumes that the kids had requested and also I wanted to show you the decorations they helped ...
Just a quick fly by post today. I have a lot of sewing and drawing and cutting out to do this afternoon! Ive talked before about how we try to give something in return for the treats that we get at H...
Ive just written up a little Halloween project over at Alpha Mom about using cookie dough as playdough and baking it into nomable 3D monster and skull cookie sculptures. We had a lot o...
I want to post about the birthday gift that we (me and Paul) made for Carys this year, but its going to have to wait because it aint done yet! Arg, bit off more than I could chew in the time availabl...
Well, I left this until the very last moment! Im not sure if this is the norm all across America or if its done anywhere else in the world either, but here locally in the elementary schools, kids bri...
Yarrrr! Talk like a pirate day be just around the corner Mateys! September 19th to be exact. Weve been making our own pirate treasure hunting maps over at Alpha Mom this year. Its a very simple proje...
Aaaaaand the winner of the copy of "Make Stuff Together" that isnt covered in jammy fingerprints iiiiiiiis... Carrie, who was chosen by random.org as the sixth commenter on the thre...
Here we are! That illusive book review that has taken me so long to write up. I was approached by Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever, the authors of “Make Something Together” a few months ago, bef...
Hello! Long time no blog! Delyth is six weeks old now and weve been enjoying both the scrummy new baby and the summer vacation. I have got plenty that I want to get up on Filth Wizardry in the next m...
I just wrote another post over at Alpha Mom, showing how we made some window decorations and beaded butterflies using the plastic from gallon milk jugs. You can read about how we made them and get th...
Delyth Lyn arrived at 10.30pm on 15th June. She was the biggest of my three girls at 8lb 4oz and is also the most chilled out of my babies so far. In case anyone is curious, Delyth is another fairly ...
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