• Christmas - Crafts for adults

    Gingerbread White Russian Cocktail recipe

    November 3, 2021 - By 

    We love this time of the year. We have family birthdays and of course the festive season to look forward to. Our diary is filling up fast and we are all excited to catch up with family and friends over the next few months. We are already beginning to stock up on festive food but we thought it would be fun to share a festive drink recipe too. Our Gingerbread White Russian Cocktail is the perfect drink to serve friends this festive season. With a mixture of our favourite spices it adds a gingerbread flavour to a popular White Russian…

  • Monday Happy List

    Monday Happy Things {Week 368}

    November 1, 2021 - By 

    Starting the week by writing the Monday Happy List  is something I’ve been doing for a while. 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 always love to write. Monday Happy Things {Week 368} We have had plenty of half term adventures over the last few days. Although we stayed at home we had lots of days out and time at home playing games and cooking together. We spent a great day at Hughenden which…

  • Weekend fun with Kids Against Maturity
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    Weekend fun with Kids Against Maturity

    October 31, 2021 - By 

    With the clocks going back this weekend it feels like the start of lovely long evenings in with the family. We love to spend time at home, my perfect Sunday would involve slow cooking a delicious roast and working our way through the games cupboard. Whilst our roast was in the oven this afternoon we enjoyed trying out Kids Against Maturity. Weekend fun with Kids Against Maturity Our family love playing family games and we already own Cards Against Humanity so we knew what to expect. Kids Against Maturity is designed for both the naughty and nice, it will keep…

  • From Shetland, With Love at Christmas
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    From Shetland, With Love at Christmas {book review}

    October 30, 2021 - By 

    I know we haven’t enjoyed Halloween but Christmas is already creeping in. I find this time of year goes really quickly so I was delighted to get an early start on my seasonal reading. Thanks to NetGalley I received a copy of From Shetland, With Love at Christmas by Erin Green which is published next month. I didn’t realise that the book was set after the events of From Shetland, With Love which was published by the author earlier this year. Both books can be read independently. From Shetland, With Love at Christmas Friendship can be the greatest gift you’ll ever…

  • Free pumpkin investigation activity pack
    Halloween crafts - STEM activity

    Free pumpkin investigation activity pack

    October 27, 2021 - By 

    October is passing by very quickly and we are enjoying half term and having time to relax. Our house is already filled with pumpkins thanks to our visit to the pumpkin patch near London a few weeks ago. The children have been planning their designs and I am looking forward to trying out some pumpkin recipes! We try not to waste any pumpkin and we’ve turned our pumpkins into a bird feeder, and also left them out for the birds to eat. This year we will also be carrying out a pumpkin investigation for my science-mad daughter. Free pumpkin investigation…

  • How To Make Your Dog #famous
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    Win a copy of How to Make Your Dog Famous

    October 26, 2021 - By 

    We’ve owned our adorable Bichon Frise Chewie for 21 months now. We couldn’t imagine our lives without him and he really is the fifth member of our family. Our days our punctuated by training, treats and walks but we wouldn’t have it any other way. The kids love showing Chewie off and make sure he has his best bandana on whenever we go out. They dress him up for Halloween and love to craft things for him. How To Make your Dog #famous How To Make your Dog #famous: a guide to social media and beyond is the go-to guide…

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    Monday Happy List

    Monday Happy Things {Week 367}

    October 25, 2021 - By 

    Starting the week by writing the Monday Happy List  is something I’ve been doing for a while. 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 always love to write. Monday Happy Things {Week 367} I was invited to watch HarperFiction’s 2022 Showcase online to hear more about some of their authors and novels for the new year. It was a brilliant hour where I was able to hear about the 2022 debuts from Nita Prose’s The…

  • Halloween Pumpkin skittles experiment for kids
    Crafts for kids - Halloween crafts - STEM activity

    Halloween Pumpkin skittles experiment for kids

    October 22, 2021 - By 

    It seems a while ago since we had fun with the Skittles experiment, creating a colourful rainbow by adding water to a plate of Skittles. It’s so easy to do science experiments at home and that was one of my daughters’ favourites. It’s so simple to set up that it makes a quick and easy science experiment for kids. With Halloween coming up we thought we would recreate it as a Halloween pumpkin Skittles experiment. Halloween Pumpkin skittles experiment for kids You don’t need much equipment. Just a big bag of Skittles, a white plate, and a jug of cold…

  • Halloween crafts

    Fingerprint painted pumpkin for kids

    October 20, 2021 - By 

    We have crafted a lot this October. Halloween is so much fun and there is something lovely about sitting around the table after school to craft together. Our most recent craft was decorating a papier mache pumpkin. As much as we love to carve a real pumpkin, our fingerprint painted pumpkin for kids is a lot less messy! Fingerprint painted pumpkin for kids We already had the papier mache pumpkin, I think it came from Hobbycraft. We gave it a quick coat of white paint to provide a plain background for the fingerprints. Then we found orange paint, as well…