I’ve been obsessed with vintage board games for a while now. Part of it is trying to re-create the games my grandparents kept in their wardrobe which we were allowed to play with when we visited. They had a great collection which included Tell Me, a metal wind up car racing game made in East…
I love how creative my children are with their Lego Duplo. It really inspires and challenges them. Today they got out the Lego table (which we made from an old Ikea table) and the children let their imaginations flow. My 4 year old loves the Disney Cars films so made a very elaborate garage for…
Are you enjoying the Bank Holiday Weekend so far? Today we visited the Shuttleworth Collection and enjoyed lots of fresh air and sunshine. I’m not sure if the weather is going to last all weekend, no matter as we’re planning on doing lots of DIY tomorrow and Monday. Fortunately we don’t need to leave the…
I was recently sent a box of products from Lindam, the UK’s number one safety brand, who are celebrating making homes safer for babies and toddlers for over 25 years. Over the last couple of years we’ve used many of their products from safety gates to monitors, bouncers and bed rails. I can’t wait to…
This term is all about minibeasts for my 4 year old. He’s been enjoying learning about life cycles and the nursery even have some tadpoles which they’re all feeding and watching grow day by day. Keen to carry on this learning at home we decided to make some craft stick minibeasts. You will need: a…
Ella’s Kitchen the organic food brand have just launched their second cook book, The Yellow One, and this time it’s all about BAKING! Late last year we reviewed Ella’s Kitchen cook book, The Red One, and it quickly became one of our favourites cook books and the children have eaten some very tasty meals thanks…
First of all I need to say how lovely the ASK Italian cook book is! The recipes are mouthwatering as are the photographs and it’s a real joy to sit and look through it. You may remember I’ve been working with ASK Italian over the last few weeks on their campaign to #respectthepasta. My first…
This year is supposed to be all about living more creatively. Instead of spending my money on blogging conferences which all tell me the same things (which I already know) I decided to spend any spare cash on learning new sewing skills and techniques. So far I’ve been on two of these courses and they’ve…
A few weeks ago I was sent a copy of the docrafts Creativity magazine to read. Crafty magazines are my absolute weakness and I subscribe to Love Patchwork & Quilting, Mollie Makes and Reloved magazine at the moment. I also have a terrible weakness for looking at magazines and often hide one beneath the food…