Today I undertook my first toy drop through The Toy Society. If you’ve never heard of them before The Toy Society is a world-wide collective of toy makers – of varying skill levels– who make toys and leave them as gifts for perfect strangers. The project was started in Australia in June 2008 by a…
Product review: Nigella Quick Collection iphone app
I recently offered to review an iPhone app for the Nigella Quick Collection. This app contains lots of recipes ideas for quick meals, laid out in 6 steps or less, and allows you to choose what to cook based on what key ingredient you have available. My little one is too young to cook with…
The Gallery: A Memory
Instead of posting a picture I’m going to re-direct you to my other blog. Just before Edward was due my husband thought it would be fun to give the baby his or her own blog , where we could post photos and let our relatives know what we were up to. Although I thought this…
Vintage at Goodwood
Last week I was lucky enough to win tickets to the first ever Vintage at Goodwood festival via a competition on the Tesco Clothing website! Vintage at Goodwood is a music and fashion led celebration of creative British cool from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s. I was VERY excited as I really wanted…
Plum goodies
This morning we were very excited to receive two big boxes full of beautifully packed Plum baby food! I love filling in questionnaires and apparently we won the prize for telling Plum our opinion of fromage frais! The prize was £50 of Plum baby food and we were sent meals, cereals, fromage frais and sauces…
Cuddledry giraffe towel
Edward loves all things giraffe (or perhaps I love giraffes and just like to buy him things!). Anyway, he has a couple of Sophie teethers which he really enjoys chewing and a giraffe soft toy. So when I was googling ‘baby’ and ‘giraffe’ I was very happy to see that cuddledry have brought out a…
Thrifty treasures
We spent a lovely weekend with my family on the Isle of Wight which is where I grew up. We managed to squeeze in a visit to the seaside town of Ventnor as well as a trip to the lovely beach at Ryde. Ventnor is full of charity shops and I bought 3 lovely vintage…
Simple applique tshirts for boys
I am really enjoying making things for my little one. He has a great bedtime routine which means by 7 we have evenings to ourselves and I can get my sewing out! A couple of weeks ago I started on some simple tshirts which I finally finished: hedgehog giraffe dinosaur jellyfish I bought the tshirts…
Eczema in young babies
Since my son was only 2 weeks old he developed eczema on his face and body. At first I wasn’t too worried and tried to keep his skin moisturised with olive oil. I only washed him in cooled boiled water without soap and washed his clothes separately with non-bio detergent. However, within 6 weeks the…