My son was sent a personalised Christmas book from Born Gifted who sell children’s gifts and toys. They have a great range of Christmas gifts and kindly allowed me to choose one of their personalised Christmas books to review which include a personalised Twelve Days of Christmas book, 24 Sleeps ’til Christmas Advent Activity book,…
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Decorating for Christmas with Dunelm Mill
Last week we popped into our local Dunelm Mill to get some inspiration for our Christmas decorations. My Facebook timeline has been full of friends putting up their trees and decorations and it feels as though we’re in the minority as we haven’t put anything up yet – except for our Advent calendars and candles….
Our Christmas Day out at Westfield
This afternoon Little Sis and I visited Westfield London to get ourselves into the Christmas spirit. It’s quite easy for us to get to Westfield London so we hopped on the tube and soon emerged into the shopping centre. I love to plan so had a list of things to see and do. First up…
Woolly Wonderland at Westfield!
We had the most wonderful time at Westfield Stratford City today where we were invited to a very special storytelling session of The Gruffalo. The children were sitting quite happily and listening really well. Woolly Wonderland at Westfield! And then the special guest turned up! My children’s faces were priceless 🙂 They both love The…
Win a Swizzels Matlow Sweet Treats Tub
You may remember a couple of weeks ago I reviewed a range of sweet for Halloween from Swizzels Matlow. Well, brand new for Christmas 2013 is the Sweet Treats Tub also from Swizzels Matlow. Available from Asda it brings together their most popular sweets and lollies, which are loved by all ages. We were sent…
Toilet roll angels
Have a plethora of toilet rolls in your house? We seem to go through lots so are always on the look out for some crafts to help use them up. Our latest one is very seasonal – toilet roll angels! Toilet roll angels craft for kids What you will need: cardboard tubes white paper silver…
Gingerbread house advent garland
We’re all very excited that Advent has started in our house. Advent calendars have been opened, Advent candles lit, and our Elf on the Shelf has taken up his position in our house. We’ll be opening the first book in our book advent today too. This year I also made a little advent garland, each…
Book advent for preschoolers
Last year we experimented with a Book Advent where you basically read a book every day during Advent. This was additional to our bedtime reading and we concentrated on Christmas books, with a little help from our local Oxfam shop! It was a great way to spend some quiet time together every day as December…
Getting Ready for Christmas with Topcashback
As I sit and write this there are only 30 29 days until Christmas. I’ve bought presents, eaten mince pies and watched that silly John Lewis Christmas advert ad nauseum. In fact, I’m already tired of all those supermarket Christmas ads. At Christmas I feel a bit caught between trying to buy handmade, support my…