The Stately Home Fun Room

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For many of us who have suffered dysfunctional and abusive childhoods, the children we were have been subjugated. Whether made to perform, grow up too quickly or keep a low profile, their needs have been shut away.
So, as an extension of the SH thread, I thought people might benefit from a space which welcomes our inner children.

Make this space whatever you want it to be. Let your imagination run free. If your inner child needs to express feelings that's okay too.

This thread is a great idea Bookcase! While I know it will be semi-serious, I have an irresistable urge to do something rather random:

sticks tongue out, giggles and yells 'chase me!'

That's great Alaya!

If you tag me I'll chase you!

Bwahahaha!! I'm gonna tag you so bad!

Hehe :)

Corrr you're fast!

Sorry Alaya. Just spoken to my mother. Now I need to cry and cuddle on some soft cushions with a big thick blanket over me.

Okay now I have to go for a bath, slap a facepack on and paint my nails after. They may end up rather random colours picked out from my nailset and glitter may be involved

And then I am going to come back and have a pillow fight with you guys and ooh ooh who's for sliding down the stairs on an old door?!

You can borrow him for a while until you feel better. He's called Rufus :)

nemofish I gotta matress!

Thank you nemo and Alaya.

Pillow and old door at the ready!

This is going to be way awesome! I vote we watch Shrek and Mulan when we're done

Popcorn, pizza and sweeties!

Good job we're doing the mattress durfing first!

ooooh ick! I would not want to land in the pile if sick if we did!

I am going into the (formal) Living Room. To play. It will make a wonderful art studio!

That long sofa has a lovely bounce to it!

I can make it all the way around the room without touching the floor!

I'll bring blankets for the tents.

((thanks+hugs))

Are you going to play with us in the pillow fight? It's okay if you don't and want to paint instead

Can I play in your tent when I'm done flying downstairs with nemofish ?

Okay. Haha I put durfing instead of surfing.

Hey do you wanna plait each others hair? I have plastic beads and one of those spinny plait making machines...

Heheh durfing! Is that like surfing for dummies?

Ooooh I definitely wanna do plaiting! What colour beads shall we use? Shall we be all different colours or have the same ones?

Lovely idea, can I join you? I'll bring the cucumber and Boursin to the party. Shall we make friendship bracelets?

Sure you can join us LoopyLoops

Friendship bracelets sounds cool!

I think we're going to have to come up with some sort of order in which to do everything. So far we've got:

Pillow Fighting
Stair Surfing
Painting
Tent Making
Watching Movies
Plaiting Hair
Frienship Bracelets

We are going to be up wayyyy past our bedtime

Please feel free to pull all the seat cushions off the sofa and chairs and make a boat in the middle of the floor - it's great fun!

Sofa cushions make the best dens, we can build them up, like bricks and bring the duvets downstairs for a roof.

I will bring my barbies and build a bears to dress up too. You can all share my dress up's. And I myself am dressed as SHE RA!!!!!

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!

Hi everyone.

Thank you for letting me cuddle your favourite teddy.

I like dressing up. I'm going to be a princess.

Hi Bookcase :)

I hope Rufus helped you a bit :)

If we're dressing up then I'm going to be a soldier because then I can stop all the bad guys. I don't like bad guys and I can shoot them and then they won't get us and I can stop the boys from trying to kiss us because they have lurgies and I don't want to catch lurgies

I think you'll be a very pretty princess Bookcase and because I'm a soldier, you can tell me who needs shooting for you! Maybe She-Ra can help me?

Ha! She-Ra's all round I think!

Or was that Wonder Woman?