Last night I attended a really fun London blogger meet up at the National Portrait Gallery in the West End. I love visiting museums and galleries, I’ve worked in museums since University and always spent my weekends (pre-children) catching up on the latest exhibitions. I’ve been fortunate to see some great exhibitions lately, including The…
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Back to school with a DIY pencil holder
This is a funny time of year. My 4 year old is going through his last week of Nursery and we have 6 weeks of fun before he starts Reception. It’s both exciting and sad as we start a new chapter as a family. With him starting Reception we have a list of essential items…
Win a copy of The Cat Who Came In off the Roof
The Cat Who Came in off the Roof by Annie M. G. Schmidt, translated from the original Dutch by David Colmer. It is a charming and funny tale about cats, friendship and learning to dare. Mr Tibble is a talented writer but is struggling as a reporter at his local newspaper. His editor is growing…
The Care Bears: Totally Sweet Adventures
I was recently offered the opportunity to review The Care Bears: Totally Sweet Adventures on DVD. As a child of the early 80s I fondly remembered Care Bears so couldn’t resist sharing this with my children to see what they thought. We’re had a crazy couple of week but yesterday afternoon Little Sis and I…
It’s the Sample things…
Last weekend I attended a workshop at Tate Britain. It was one of a series of workshops run in conjunction with their latest exhibition – British Folk Art. British Folk Art at Tate Britain This is the first major exhibition of British folk art. What is British folk art? I’m not sure I’m any clearer after visiting…
The Usborne Art Book about Colour
I love the way my 4 year old tells me what they’ve been learning at nursery. I know they do some amazing topics. The other day I noticed they’d been block printing colourful houses in the style of a Brazilian artist. He’s also been telling me about mixing colours to make new colours. I love…
Playmobil 40th birthday party
We spent the morning at The Waldorf Hilton celebrating Playmobil’s 40th birthday party. As part of the birthday celebrations they launched The Playmobil Suite at The Waldorf Hilton, London. Playmobil are residing at the prestigious hotel from today for 40 days and 40 nights and anyone can book to stay in the exclusive Playmobil Suite….
Easy Lego bento
Last week we had an amazing day at Legoland. We try and go every year and we’ve always been blessed with amazing weather. I love experimenting with bento lunches but I only realised after we had got home that a Lego bento picnic would have been fun! Today I finally got round to it and…
Win Guylian’s chocolates – the perfect gift for teacher
I can’t quite believe my son will soon complete a year at Nursery. We’ve already had a letter in his book bag about a presentation to the teachers for all their hard work with our children. This is the first year we’ve had to think about an end of term gift. Fortunately I found a…