Rebel Update

 Hi all. I thought I'd stop by with an update on how I'm doing with my badge work.

My daily journal is complete for April and ready to be started tomorrow and I'm surprised at how much I'm looking forward to ticking tasks off!

This is a project I worked on for a while and I decided to give it to my mum for Mother's Day so I framed it. The cross stitch comes under the Craft Badge and gifting it covers an aspect of My Talents. Not only that, I've discovered it covers the Be Kind Challenge!

The next update is to share this. Another aspect of the Craft badge I want to try is Calligraphy and it just so happened that my mum bought this kit for me and I can't wait to try it out! I just need to locate some good tutorials, books or websites to learn from.

The Reader Badge appealed to me as soon as I knew there was one, but there's also a clause in the Codebreaker Badge that covers the reading of a book. This has been on my wishlist for ages so I decided now was the time to buy it. Firstly as one of my six books to read, but also to cover the Choose Your Own Adventure aspect. Let's hope I avoid that bizarre death they warn about on the cover!

I've also been out today and bought some plants for my Indoor Gardener badge. I need to look after five different plants, but I already have a little rose I was given for Christmas and there's an Oxalis Triangularis in our bathroom I look after too.

I was quite impressed that this little bundle, including the food and snips, cost less than £30!

Finally, last night I went for a meeting of our District Scout Adventurous Activities committee about joining and training up to become an instructor in activities like tomahawk throwing, climbing, rifle shooting, all the cool stuff. So it looks like my Adventurer Badge is on the cards.