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 try out some of the products we were sent, the Backseat and Pushchair Organiser is just what I need in the car right now! One of the products was a very funky Light My Way Night Light and as my children already have their own…
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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 selection of colourful craft sticks, sellotape pipe cleaners googly eye stickers sticky dots Craft stick minibeasts First decide which animals you want to make. We made a dragonfly, butterfly and ladybird and I’ll show you how we made the dragonfly. The next step is to…
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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 to it. We were very excited to receive a copy of their new book. With over 100 delicious recipes for chefs both big and small, it’s a great way to get the whole family involved in spending some quality time together having fun in the…
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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 challenge was to enjoy a family meal at our local ASK Italian, and the second challenge was to cook the perfect pasta at home. The latest challenge was to try and recreate a dish from the ASK menu in my own kitchen. I was sent…
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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 both been great. Last month I attended a hand quilting workshop with Charlotte Newland at The Village Haberdashery in West Hampstead. Hand quilting is the method of sewing together the three layers of a quilt (the backing, the wadding, and the top) together by hand rather…
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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 shopping if I’m on my own! I was happy to read something new and was pleasantly surprised by docrafts Creativity as it covers crafts from card making to jewellery, papercraft, scrapbooking, soft craft, upcycling and crafts for kids too. It’s priced at £4.99 which is…
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I can’t quite believe I offered to review a noisy book with the children but I did, so here goes. The children were sent a Fireman Sam Start the Siren! Sound book from Egmont to review. Called Jupiter to the Rescue! it’s a sturdy board book with a button to press throughout the story. Fireman Sam and the Pontypandy fire crew are called on to help with many emergencies, from a cat stuck in a tree to a bus nearly falling off a cliff. Jupiter the fire engine races to each scene with sirens wailing! Join in with the rescue…
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One of the things I’m trying to do this year is make more time for myself. That might sound easy but, with a demanding 2 and 4 year old around, I rarely get any time to myself before 7pm. So I’ve been trying to cut down on the hours spent online where I do nothing but stare at my laptop screen and spend more time sewing, reading and doing things which make me happy. I was pleased to be asked to join the Bahlsen Book Club which basically involved receiving a new book to read each month and a couple…
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with Lego Duplo on their latest campaign called How Do You Play, which runs for the next couple of weeks on Lego Duplo’s Facebook page. It’s really easy and fun to enter. Simply let your children get creative with their Lego Duplo, capture their play in a short film and upload it through the How Do You Play app on the Lego Duplo Facebook page. Each week people can vote for their favourite videos and weekly prizes are awarded to the top three video participants and three voters who are chosen at random.…