Laura Rumble - Crafter

Bobby knows all the names of all of the Thomas engines.  Auntie Laura put in a lot of effort to learn some and well, failed.  In my defence there are SO many! You can watch the process of the layout coming together here: By the way, since these photos were taken I have attempted to learn dinosaur names and failed.  And attempted to learn the racing cars names and failed.  I knew there would come a point when Bob would outsmart me, I know he's a bright kid, I just didn't expect it to happen quite so soon!! Train cut file available as a pre-cut from Pretty My Page .

A question for you...  what do you do when the cows start walking on the train track?  I don't know how you deal with these situations but we made some flags to warn Thomas and his friends... Arthur knows to be carefully because the flag is flying... And Edward knows the farmer is around in is tractor. Arthur knows when to stop and when it is safe to go again. I know, a little crazy but very cute, don't you think?  Little one loves his train track and always brings a rucksack full of trains with him.  He has a stop and go flag set at home but we needed some flags for here at Granny, Grandad and Laura's house.  They are really simple to make - half a drinking straw, between 2-3 inches (5-7.5 cm) of ribbon and some double sided sticky tape.  I use the strong red-backed tape as I know with this tape little fingers will not destroy the flags in 2 seconds flat!!  All my ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons. Have a fun day, a...