• Chewy Gingerbread molasses cookies recipe from the gingerbread house blog
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    {Recipe} Chewy Gingerbread molasses cookies

    March 7, 2020 - By 

    We’ve been baking a lot lately. The whole family love gingerbread and there’s nothing better than some Saturday morning baking, especially if the cookies last all weekend! I really enjoyed making some chewy gingerbread molasses cookies. These make the perfect cookie to go with a hot drink after a long, bracing walk with the family. This recipe makes 24 cookies Chewy Gingerbread molasses cookies ingredients: 3/4 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter, softened 1 Cup light brown sugar 1 large egg 1/4 Cup molasses 2 Cup flour 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground cloves 1 tsp ground…

  • Paper puppy puppets craft for kids from the gingerbread house
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    Paper puppy puppets craft for kids

    March 5, 2020 - By 

    I may have mentioned that we have a naughty little Bichon puppy called Chewie. He certainly keeps us on our toes with frequent little walks, puppy training and play. My daughter loves to draw pictures of him and he has inspired our easy paper puppy puppet craft for kids. Paper puppy puppets supplies: Coloured craft papers Craft sticks Black marker pen Craft glue Pencil Scissors puppy puppet template Easy paper puppy puppets craft for kids: Print out the puppy puppet template (above) and cut out the patterns. The big patterns are for both mum and dad dogs and the little…

  • Cute Kawaii Box review and giveaway
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    Cute Kawaii Box review and giveaway

    March 3, 2020 - By 

    Have you heard of kawaii? It’s a Japanese word for cute and is used to describe stationary, sweets, clothes and just about anything you can imagine. My children are of an age where they love new cute stationary for school, so they loved the latest Kawaii Box which we were sent. Kawaii Box is a monthly subscription so you can easily subscribe for 1 month, 6 months or 12 months. I often chat about my subscription boxes here as I love to receive a monthly treat in the post. It seems my children love subscription boxes too and it’s easy…

  • Monday Happy List

    Monday Happy List {Week 281}

    March 2, 2020 - By 

    I love to start the week by writing the Monday Happy List. It’s a chance for me to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures – it’s a post I love to write. Monday Happy List {Week 281} It’s not often I’m able to help at my children’s school any more but as I don’t work on Mondays I volunteered at my daughter’s school to help with their Egyptian Day. My daughter hates dressing up so we compromised on her costume – I…

  • Exploring the film character statue trail in London's Leicester Square
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    Exploring the film character statue trail in London’s Leicester Square

    March 1, 2020 - By 

    We love a public art trail. They are are a great way to encourage my kids to walk and it’s been a while since we explored the Walking with the Snowman public art trail at London Bridge City last year. Today we spent a day in London as we were invited to watch a preview of My Spy (it’s a really funny film and I will be telling you all about it soon). Whilst we were in London we made a visit to the Lego Store and had time to explore the new film character statue trail in London’s Leicester…

  • Cricut book page art for World Book Day
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    Cricut book page art for World Book Day

    February 29, 2020 - By 

    If you’re a parent of a child in Infant or Junior School then I’m sure you will be aware that World Book Day is coming up next week. Our family are not fans of dressing up so we are relieved that the children only have to take their favourite book in as they will have plenty of time to read during school. Viking recently asked if I would like to craft something special for World Book Day. They knew that we all love reading and asked us to remember a story that sparked our imagination, then craft a scene, character…

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    Spring trends for a bedroom

    February 27, 2020 - By 

    Photo by Christopher Jolly on Unsplash Disclosure – this is a sponsored post Let’s gloss over the face it snowed for 2 hours this morning. The children were really disappointed that the snow didn’t settle and by the afternoon I had the washing out – I love the whacky British weather ! Spring is one of my favourite seasons and I love watching the garden come back to life after the long Winter days. It puts me in the mood for Spring cleaning our house and bringing that back to life too. Which is lucky as it’s time to update our bedroom. Our…

  • Cricut made countdown {wooden block calendar}
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    Cricut made countdown {wooden block calendar}

    February 25, 2020 - By 

    I love crafting for Christmas and had so much fun planning and making throughout October, November and December. I’ve shared a lot of my favourite Cricut projects with you, including the personalised wooden advent calendars we made. Today I wanted to tell you about the wooden block countdown calendar I also made. Although I made it for the children to countdown to Christmas Day, we’re now using it as a photo prop with our little Bichon Frise pup! Easy Cricut made countdown from wooden blocks I’m calling this make a wooden block countdown calendar for want of a better name.…

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    Monday Happy List

    Monday Happy List {Week 280}

    February 24, 2020 - By 

    I love to start the week by writing the Monday Happy List. It’s a chance for me to sit down and reflect on the things that made me happy in the previous week, as well as to record some of our family adventures – it’s a post I love to write. Monday Happy List {Week 280} On Monday we left our Airbnb and headed to Wiltshire for a couple of days. It was really lovely to have a break from the school routine and spend time together. The weather was terrible but we didn’t let it stop us getting out and…