take one visit to scrapstore...

...and not only do you save some glorious items from going to landfill, you get a whole load of cheap pretty Christmas decorations, and a little bit of a glow knowing you saved the planet, made your children happy and enhanced their creative skills and lateral thinking ability all in one afternoon.

Hurrah! This is Od's modern tree:

There is also the small matter of explaining to Mr Wah why Mb *needed* the three foot piece of black foam. He has made an amazing small world play scape from it, but Mr Wah still needs convincing that the Scrapstore is a good thing. Especially when the kitchen table looks like this after a visit:

The scary bit? We'll be back there next week for more foam, because now Eb wants to make his very own scape!