From award-winning author Jane Bull, Crafty Creatures offers 30 adorable animal projects to knit or stitch. Style your own Knitten (knitted kitten), dress up the Bunny girls, and meet the Minimals – tiny animal friends that fit in a matchbox. This is a lovely craft book for children and mine really enjoyed looking through it with me. They love small toys so we chose to make the cute Minimals. The children chose from the eight Minimal templates, helped me pick the colours and I got to work on them. They were easy to whip up whilst watching Bake Off! The children love them…
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Following 20 years of experience in caring for millions of hands every day, Carex have now launched a new range of hand creams. Carex Antibacterial Hand Creams strike the perfect balance between protection and pampering, addressing all of your personal skin needs. Every time your skin is washed, it undergoes some changes. The most significant of these changes is a reduction in the skin barrier protection, which is an important factor in overall hand hygiene. A rougher surface is perfect for bacteria to lie in but luckily your skin barrier contains properties that restore its structure. Your skin…
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We still have a plethora of toilet rolls in our recycling drawer so I thought it was about time we used them. Halloween is fast approaching so what better than a Halloween pumpkin. Yes, it is possible! Simple toilet roll pumpkins First of all my 3 year old painted a couple of toilet rolls with orange paint. We left them to dry and I cut out leaves from coloured paper. We used our fab Ralph the Dog to stick the leaves to the tube. Ralph is the new fun Scotch Magic Tape Dispenser Dog from Scotch 3M. My son loves…
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I’ve noticed that Halloween seems to be more commercial every year and colourful images are already creeping onto Pinterest. Halloween Crafts: 35 spooky projects to make and bake has recently been published and is packed full of fun projects to fill your home this Halloween. My children are just getting interested in Halloween. The last few years I’ve dressed them up and we’ve carved a pumpkin but this year I think we will be doing a lot more. This book gives you some great inspiration, from spooky decorations to creepy costumes and scarily sweet treats. There are a couple of…
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I was sent some new baking products and thought I would make some flowery treats as autumn has definitely arrived here in London. There’s nothing like a batch of cakes to cheer our house up and these definitely did the trick. They were pretty fun to make too. Easy Flowerpot Cupcakes I made a normal batch of vanilla cupcakes in these fun silicon flowerpot cases from Dunelm Mill, cooking them for about 20 minutes at gas mark 4. I decorated them with a green buttercream for the grass, and slices of marshmallow dipped in red edible glitter to look like…
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A couple of weeks ago my toddler had his first trip to the cinema to see Disney’s Planes. From above the world of “Cars” comes Disney’s Planes, an action-packed 3D animated comedy adventure featuring Dusty, a plane with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. He really enjoyed the film and has been collecting Dusty and his friends ever since. Disney’s Planes soundtrack He was sent a copy of the soundtrack to this fun adventure which features the original score composed by Mark Mancina, plus 4 original songs and one bonus track. Dusty is a crop-dusting plane who dreams of…
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There is much excitement in our house as the toddler is due to start nursery in the next couple of weeks. His nursery is attached to the school he’ll eventually attend and over the past week we’ve been busy buying his uniform. So it was great timing for Stuck on You to get in touch offering us the chance to review their back to school products. Stuck on You produce super cute name labels and personalised products for kids, from Lunchboxes, Drink Bottles, Backpacks, Library Bags and more. You can take a peek here – www.stuckonyou.co.uk Stuck On You is 100%…
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As you know we were lucky enough to be lent a Bugaboo Bee to help us during our Summer Bucket List. Our summer isn’t over yet as the toddler doesn’t start nursery until the 26th so we’re still busy going out and about. Little Sis sleeping I absolutely adore the Bugaboo Bee, as I knew I would. Most of my NCT group had one, but we were sensible and bought a second hand Bugaboo Cameleon, which I adored at the time. Anyway, I thought it might be useful to compare the Bugaboo Bee and Bugaboo Cameleon. The Bugaboo Cameleon…
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I’m on a bit of a roll lately, reading books for pleasure! I have to point out that this doesn’t mean I have more spare time, I’m just forcing myself to read books rather than hang around on Pinterest! I was sent a copy of GI Brides: the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love, by the authors who wrote The Sugar Girls which I reviewed earlier this year. The ‘friendly invasion’ of Britain by over a million American GIs caused a sensation amongst a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. But American…
