Last week my girlfriend Gill and I took our girls for a week away to the English countryside — Wiltshire to be precise — for half term. I never thought I would enjoy running around in cold, old England in February but it turned out to be a great holiday. I guess kids don’t care about the cold once they are warmly wrapped up. The big advantage was that we were the only people who actually thought that a holiday in England in February was a good idea, so we never stood in a single queue and had huge arboritums and manor houses all to ourselves. We stayed in a great little cottage and the kids were so exhausted by 7 that Gill and I had great evenings, drinking wine and catching up on every single person we know.

Being dedicated moms and industrious woman we decided that we should make something during the evenings for our oldest girls. So before heading off to old blighty, I went to the Marché St Pierre to purchase tulle to make the girls a tutu.

At night we would open a very well deserved bottle of wine and get busy at tutu making. It is fool-safe — you just sew together an elastic band the size of the child’s waist and tie on strips of tulle.  They turned out great! I got this great idea from Design Mom and could not wait to make one. It is the easiest thing I have ever made and the kids loved them. Now we have a little ‘wood fairy’ tutu which reminds us of our great time in the English country side. A bit like Midsummer Nights Dream…

-Emilie