Monday morning again. Hope you had a great weekend. I love to start the week by writing Five Happy Things. 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…
Win a How To Train Your Dragon goody bag
Yesterday we were invited to a really special immersive screening of the last film in the How To Train Your Dragon franchise, The Hidden World from Universal UK. My children have grown up with the How To Train Your Dragon books and films (see our review of the Playmobil How To Train Your Dragon range…
15 Tasty Butterbeer Recipes
We are huge fans of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in our house. I devoured the Harry Potter books when I was younger, loved the films and now enjoy the Fantastic Beasts franchise too. I have tried reading the books with the children but they don’t seen quite ready for them. Instead we have…
DIY Valentine’s Day gift bag with paper weave detail
Have you started thinking about Valentine’s Day yet? I love to give my children a card and a little sweet treat, just like my parents used to give me and my sister. This year I wanted to make a paper treat bag to hold my treats. They are embellished with a paper weave detail which…
Five Happy Things {Week 224}
Monday morning again. Hope you had a great weekend. I love to start the week by writing Five Happy Things. 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…
Mistletoe embroidery and a felt winter fox
I try to make time to craft but I have to be honest, working outside of the home leaves me with little energy for it at the moment. I’ve been enjoying the quarterly Craftpod subscription though and always seem to make time to craft the contents. I ordered the Winter Craftpod box as a little…
A New Year’s Resolution to use and display family photos
Over the holidays we re-arranged our living room. The layout had stayed the same since we moved in 5 years ago, and I didn’t like it. The seats were at the wrong angle to the tv and all the shelves were cluttered with toys and paperwork. So we moved the sofas around, got rid of…
Crafting pretty paper stars
There ‘s something about working with paper that I just love. Although I like to sew, I’m also really glad that I discovered paper craft too. This Christmas we added a huge paper star to our bay window so I was pretty excited to see a paper star kit along with my monthly Mollie Makes…
12 Must Make Dr. Seuss Crafts
On March 2rd Dr. Seuss Day is celebrated. You may not have heard of this day before but it’s celebrated every year, on the anniversary of the birth of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known by his pen name – Dr Seuss! Across the world there is a full twenty-four hours to make a mess with…









