Finding the new in the everyday
Today's new thing is yet another from the James Dyson Foundation challenge cards I discovered a few months ago. Whilst these are aimed at children, I've had great fun making and learning about spaghetti bridges, paper water balloons, and weather balloons, so I was looking forward to today's task - making a paper helicopter. I've… Continue reading Day 173 – Paper Helicopter
Normally I am quite well organised with my new things, I usually plan out two weeks at a time, and rearrange as and when spontaneous things come up, but today, I don’t know what happened - it was the closest I’d come to not completing anything new at all. I had a full and busy… Continue reading Day 171 – Hand Shadow Puppets
After my spaghetti bridge success the other day, I really wanted to attempt another one of the James Dyson Foundation challenges – I mean, they're for kids, but that just makes them extra fun in my opinion. As it was a really warm day, my attention wandered over to the paper water bombs section. All… Continue reading Day 142 – Paper water bombs
I subscribe to food writer Anna Jones's newsletter as I love her recipes (I made her rhubarb and ginger cookies a few days ago), but for the past few weeks her newsletter has been renamed, "Goodness when we need it most". She compiles a list of nice things happening at the moment, whether it be… Continue reading Day 131 – Spaghetti bridge
Let me just start by saying I did not think I could do this, at all. I thought I would end up sounding like a lame, middle-aged Uncle, trying to trick the kids he's cool. I was always very envious of anybody who could bust out a beat, and even I tried to follow along,… Continue reading Day 120 – Learnt to Beatbox
I am very grateful that my friends are always on high-alert for new things for me to do: they quite often send through suggestions that I would have never discovered if it weren't for them. I normally put the suggestions on the list and plan to do it in the future. Last week, however, 3… Continue reading Day 101 – Recreate famous sculptures
Let me start by saying this is as weird as it sounds. I stumbled upon laughter yoga in Frankfurt when I was searching for regular yoga classes a while back. Curious, but put off by the weirdness, I didn't give it a try. I'm happy I waited as doing a video at home was the… Continue reading Day 98 – Laughter Yoga
I had no idea paper planes were able to do a loop de loop before my sister's partner challenged me to make one. I really thought he was winding me up until I curiously looked online, and there they were - hundreds of tutorials! Scrolling through Youtube I found there were a variety of different… Continue reading Day 78 – Loop de loop plane
New Day, New Thing 