The Techno Maid

Making Monsters

From the library I got a book that had these really cute toys in it. I wanted to make some monsters with wibbly wobbly arms. So that night I got out my knitting needles and wool and started to knit.

I didn't notice the time going by, and suddenly it was bed time and I had to stop knitting. So I put away my knitting needles for the night and went to bed.

The next morning I got straight back to work. I worked all day and by afternoon tea time I had finished the monster. Then I wanted to make a smaller one so I did a little bit of maths to work out how.

The little one was finished very soon. I gave it to Dad who was very pleased with it. When he found Mum he said, “Look what I got”. I was very pleased with the toys too. I named my one Mackintosh.

If you would like to make one yourself here is the pattern:

The big monster

The body:

Cast on 16 stitches and knit 72 rows.
Cast off

Arm (make 2):

Cast on 5 stitches and knit 26 rows.
Cast off

Leg(make 2):

Cast on 5 stitches and knit 40 rows.
Cast off

Sew it up and you are done

The little one

The body:

Cast on 8 stitches and knit 37 rows.
Cast off

Arm (make 2):

Cast on 2 stitches and knit 13 rows.
Cast off

Leg (make2):

Cast on 3 stitches and knit 20 rows.
Cast off

Sew it up.

For the face you can sew on buttons for eyes or you can do what I did with Dads toy and sew on wool eyes. Sew on the mouth with wool.

You can also make hats for the monsters.

A hat for the big monster:

Cast on 54 stiches knit 20 rows.

Fold in half and sew up.

Hat for the little monster:

Cast on 29 stiches knit 10 rows.

Fold in half and sew up.

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, by Sophie

I Received the Holy Spirit

The day of my confirmation came at last. The time before it had past so slowly.

I got up at six thirty. Nothing was much different than a normal Saturday. When all the jobs were done I put on my confirmation dress. It was very pretty. It was made of white satin, with white beads in flower shapes on the front.

Then it was time to get in the van for the long trip. On the way to the confirmation I listened to my mp3 player, I read one of my favourite books, and I counted trucks.

When we got there two of my friends showed me the church. They were also going to be confirmed. When we got into the church we had a run though of what we had to do.

Then the Confirmation started. I was nervous and excited at the same time but when the bishop winked at me I felt better. I was the first one to be confirmed.

After the confirmation I had my photo taken with the bishop outside the church.

In the hall there was a very nice lunch or afternoon tea, I couldn't tell which . Everyone who had been confirmed were photographed together. Another photo was taken of us all standing around the cake. In the photo around the cake I was at the back and could not be seen so Mum took a photo of me with the cake. Then the cake was cut. I got a piece of cake and went outside with my best friend.

When we got home we had a movie dinner and then the best cake I had ever seen. It had twelve fruits on top and it was an white chocolate cake. Dad, Gemma-Rose and I had made all the fruits out of icing. There was a huge pineapple in the middle and the rest of the fruits like the apple and pear and tomato were grouped round it.

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, by Sophie

My wish came true

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to have my confirmation and on Sunday my wish came true. It was after Mass we had just got out of the church and Mum went to our priest and asked if I could have my confirmation with some other homeschoolers on the last Saturday of the holidays. I could not believe my ears on the way to the car. Mum asked me what I thought. I was so pleased that I could have jumped up and down if I was not in the car and the roof was so low that I could not even stand straight.

When we got home I tried to think of a confirmation saint. Mum said “How about St John Vianney. He came from about the same time as your other saint Sophie Madeleine”. So I asked about his life. Mum told me that he was a miracle maker. When I heard this I wanted to hear more about him so me and Mum went to the bookcase and tried to find out a bit about him. After a lot of looking we found one. When I had read it I loved the story so much that I just had to have him. So now he will be my Confirmation saint. I shall be Sophie Madeleine Jean-Marie-Baptiste.

Imogen is going to be my confirmation sponsor. She is no one else's sponsor.

My dress is a lovely white dress. It has embroidery and beads on the front. It is made out of silky material. It took me a long time to decide which dress I wanted to wear because I had four dresses to choose from and they were all pretty.

Imogen also wrote a post about my confirmation on her blog, Dancing With Dragonflies.

I'm going in three weeks time. I can't wait!

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, by Sophie

Drawing

Meet the Limes

I am writing a story about a homeschooling family called 'The Limes." They have four children: Liz, Kate, John, and Tom. I drew some pictures of them. I like my picture of Kate best.

This is Mr Lime. He is a primary school teacher and is very funny. He loves to spend time with his family. He likes to play board games and cricket. He also likes to watch cricket. His favourite food is chocolate.

This is Mrs Lime. She is a very pretty lady. She's very kind too. She has a lot of work to do looking after the house and children. She likes to knit cardigans for the children and watch saints movies. Her favourite food is Pavlova.

This is Tom. He is ten. He likes to play indoor soccer with his friends. He's the best in team.He also likes to read adventure stories. He wants to go camping someday. His favourite food is oranges.

This is Kate. She eight and is very thin, tall and pretty, just like her mum. She loves to read saint books, Enid Blyton stories and princess stories. She also likes to write stories and cook cakes and dinners. Her favourite food is chocolate cake.

This is Liz. She is six. She loves to play with her dolls Amy, Sunny, Jonathon and Peach. She also likes to watch movies. Her favourite movies are: Inspector Gadget, Barbie, especially A Fairy Secret, and Herbie. Her favourite food is yogurt. Her favourite flavour is strawberry.

This is John. He is three. he likes to get messy by playing with mud and playdough. He likes to make playdough farms. He also love to have his dad read him bedtime stories. And most of all he likes to be loved. His favourite food is mandarins.

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, by Sophie

Famous Mary Poppins Secret in Narnia with Little Women

I have a lot of books that I love to read. There is so much to read and so much to learn that I do not know where to start.

Some of my favourite books are The Secret Seven, The Famous Five, Narnia, Mary Poppins and Little Women they are all great books. I like a lot other books to but I do not remember them right now.

I remember when I was learning to read and Mum asked, “Do you think that you will be like the big girls and always read books instead of playing with Gemma-Rose?”

I said no but I was wrong. Now I love to read more than to play.

I got the complete Mary Poppins for my birthday and I am already up to chapter five. What I like about books is that if you get a good book you can just picture it in your mind. I think that the world would be boring if we did not have books.

Two weeks ago there was a Mary Poppins day in a park in Bowral. Bowral was said to be the birth place of P.L Travers who wrote Mary Poppins. There were a lot of people and everyone had an umbrella. In fact there was so many people there that they got into the Guinness book of records.

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, by Sophie

Family

Birthday Bears

We all have birthday teddies that we got on the day that we were born. Thomas has a lot of birthday teddies.

My birthday teddy is named Honey. I love her a lot. She sleeps on the end of my bed. She is very patient. Once when it was very noisy and I was trying to get to sleep I put her on my head and when I woke up I was lying on top of her.

Gemma-Rose has a bear named Elizabeth. She is very pretty.

Charlotte did not get her bear on the day she was born but she got it on one of her birthdays. She did get a teddy on the day she was born. In fact she got two teddies on the day she was born but they were not big like everyone else’s teddies. Her big teddy’s name is Bernadette.

Imogen’s teddy’s name is Barney Bear. Once when she let me play with it I got tomato sauce on him. It took a long to get it out of his fur.

Thomas gets a teddy every birthday and every Christmas for presents and Mum puts them in her room. He died the day after he was born so he can’t play with them.

I do not know the names of Felicity’s teddy or Duncan’s teddy or Callum’s teddy. All I know is that Felicity and Duncan gave their bears to me and Gemma-Rose.

Mum has also written a post about Thomas’s Teddies at Sue Elvis Writes.

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, by Sophie

movies

Despicable Me: Movie Review

The story: Gru, the world's greatest criminal, wants to steal the moon. But bank won't give him the money he needs for it because he didn't have the shrink ray he needed to steal it. He decides to steal it from another criminal. To do this he needs three orphans who sell cookies. But the orphans want a home and a family, even if it means turning Gru into a dad.

It was a very exciting movie because things keep going wrong and Gru has to try and fix it.

My favourite part was when Gru was trying to explain to the bank his plan for getting the moon and the three orphan girls mess it up for him.