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My adventurs with Smartibot

My Smartibot kit has arrived in the post, and look at this awesome patch they sent too!  Hello peeps, sorry it has been a while but I have been busy making. O n today's blog post, I am sharing an awesome video from the guys at Crafty robot, that shows you how to make a cute robot from a milk carton (using the Smartibot Kit...) So here it is: Since a few days ago, my Smartibot kit arrived (from Kickstarter), I have enjoyed building my little electronic friend! Here is me making my Smartibot I have yet to hack a household item or toy, but that's next on the list! Smartibot is awake... If you want to buy your own Smartibot go to  The Crafty Robot Welp that's it for today folks. see you next time... Love Gaia Cacti xxxxx

Watercolour Painting at the beach

Fudge guarding us in his DIY bed  Hello peeps today's blog post is a few pics from today's adventure walk to the beach. View to St.Ives Today's weather was predicted to be sunny! So my mum Melissa, our dog Fudge and I decided to walk to a beach. Fudge pinching my paint water...    When we arrived at the beach (after having a paddle in the freezing cold sea), I decided to do a do a watercolor painting.  My watercolor painting ↟.  After that, we meandered to another location, where I did yet another watercolor painting of the beautiful St.Ives arches. Here it is.↡   Well, that's it for today. Hope you enjoyed reading this post. (I sure enjoyed going on this little adventure!)  Love Gaia Cacti                  xxx        

#MondayMotivation -Bobby Duke Arts

Hello peeps today's  #MondayMotivaiton post is my favorite Youtuber 'Bobby Duke Arts'. Here is one of his videos where he makes an awesome flame sculpture from tin foil and gives it to somebody at the gas staiton...      Some of the reasons I love his channel are: the crazy dance moves in almost every video, making something amazeballs from just hardware supplies, and the funny voices...   Ahh well, that's it for today folks, I'me off to make some Bobby Duke inspired art. P.S. Make sure to subscribe to him pronto.  love Gaia Cacti xx

Watercolour paintings of the birds we saw in the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch 2019

Hello peeps, today my mum Melissa and I have been doing lots to help keep the wild birds happy. First, we made some more lard cakes (see 25/1/19's post for the recipe!) and hung them out where the birds can reach. After that, we settled down by my desk and the bay window (which I Keep my many houseplants on) to do the RSPB Big Garden Bird Wach. We only saw two Blue Tits. But they came back twice! Here is a photo of one of  Blue Tits that we spotted.↑ I also did a couple of watercolor paintings whilst we bird watched.   Maybe the reason we didn't get many feathered visitors was that it has been VERY windy here in Cornwall, with wind speeds up to 70 miles per hour!    Me in my "Bird Wachi'n Hat" Well, that's it for today. Good luck if you are participating in The Big Garden Bird Wach. And if not, ahh well... See you tomorrow, Love Gaia Cacti xxx  

Will it snow again this year in Cornwall?

Today I have been pondering whether it will snow again here in Cornwall UK, like it did last March... So I thought I would share with you some photos of when 'The Beast From The East' came to Cornwall.... View to our garden by the sea. Fudge eating snow. I remember when it first started to snow I couldn't believe it, as it has only snowed three times before in the more than eight years that I have lived in Cornwall!  But last years was the biggest lot of snow by far!   No snow today but lots of wind. Back tomorrow with our results of our RSPB Big Garden Bird Wach. Over and out x

The Big Garden Bird Watch (and a free recipe for lard balls)

So "The Big Garden Bird Wach" is coming up (From the 26th to the  28th of Jan in fact!). My Mum and I are really looking forward to it, and have been counting down the days.  We decided to make some 'peanut meal worm and lard balls' to pass the time as we, *cough*, I  was getting rather inpatient... So I thought I would share my recipe with you. (coz you know, I might as well!) This recipe makes 4 balls.

Taking Stocks list

Hello peeps today's blog post is Pip Lincolne's "Taking Stocks list" that I copied from her. (Its OK she said I could. x) Ok here it is:  Making: Happy Snail Mail to send to my Grandma (which I posted and forgot to put the stamp on) Cooking: Marmite Stars (Check out 21/1/19's post for the recipe!).  Sipping: Coconut water and Chinese tea (not at the same time obviously..) Reading: Utterly me, Clarice Bean by Lauren Child. Looking: At my plants and wondering whether to water them. Listening: To the Craig Charles funk and soul show.  Wishing: For Summer to arrive already! Enjoying: Playing with my new Tamagotchi. Waiting: For my Kawaii backpack to arrive in the post.  Liking: My new desk set up. Loving: The fresh air of winter. Buying: Kawaii stationary.  Watching: The Last Man On Earth (an awesome show on Amazon Prime). Hoping: My lychee seedlings will grow and produce fruit (could be some time...) Needing: To

My trip to Liverpool to see the Giants

Giants Liverpool . Hello, peeps today's blog is all about my encounter with the Giants in Liverpool.  In October 2018 my mum Melissa, our dog Fudge and I travelled from Cornwall to Liverpool, to visit my Grandma and to see the see the spectacular Giants parade. We had to wait for an hour and a half for them to walk past us but boy was it worth it!  As we had taken Fudge the dog with us  he was getting pretty tired and cold we had to make a makeshift baby carrier from a scarf.  He liked it. Oxlo the dog   We didn't get many pictures but here are some of the best: The little girl giant I know there called Giants but you don't realize how big they really are until you see them in real life. They are at least two stories high!   There was even a band riding along in a van! Fudge seemed to like them too... A lucky shot of Jean-Luc Courcolt the man who invented the Giants Liverpool. It all seemed to go past in a blink of an eye..... As w

Our permaculture allotment

Our allotment Hello peeps! Today's blog post is about our allotment wich my mum Melissa, our dog Fudge, and I enjoy visiting... As you can see we have a wood burner which we use to keep warm in the winter. Sometimes we even cook potatoes in there, wrapped in tinfoil.   ↜ Over there: we like to take cold drinks to the allotment (in summer) which we drink with our reusable rainbow metal straws! My fave drink of the mo is Karma Cola's 'Lemony Lemonade'. Why not check out their cool ethical website hear:  Karma Cola   Permaculture keyhole bed  Our next allotmenteering adventure is to make a Permaculture keyhole bed. We plan to grow strawberries in the side and veg in the top!    Why not check out this awesome video here:  permaculture video ?   Mist at the allotment. Well, this is the end of this blog post.  Hopefully, we won't get any giant slugs eating our veg. Again.  love Gaia cacti xxx

Free Marmite recipe!

Cinnamon Swirls.  Hello, again! Today I thought I would share my recipe for  "Marmite Stars". Which, in the opinion of me, a "Marmite lover", is delicious. (But if you don't like Marmite maybe this post isn't for you).  Marmite Stars.   So here it is: