I have been enjoying all the heart themed crafts over the last few weeks. There’s just something about the bright colours at this generally gloomy time of year. Our house is filled with hand made cards, decorations and a few sweet treats too. My children are a lovely age for this little celebration and they’ve really enjoyed making cards for everyone. With two young children much of my crafting is now aimed at them. They love to craft more than anything and our house is filled with their work. I figure I have plenty of time to craft when they…
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Have you watched The Book of Life yet? In the Mexican town of San Angel, Manolo, Maria and Joaquin have been friends ever since childhood. Although their lives have taken different paths, one thing remains the same – Manolo and Joaquin both want to marry Maria. Little does the trio know that battling husband-and-wife deities have made a high-stakes wager on the love triangle’s outcome. To celebrate the release of The Book of Life on Blu-ray and DVD on February 16th, I wanted to share a competition to win one of three fantastic family entertainment bundles. Each bundle includes: Blu-ray…
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I have a sweet giveaway to share with you today. I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your notice that Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. Will you be giving your loved one a little token or going all out to impress them? This week we’ll be having a test run with our handmade Valentine’s Day cards and I bought some limited edition tins of Love Hearts to give to the children too. Limited edition Love Hearts tin Love Hearts have been around for as long as I can remember. Of course I enjoyed them during my own childhood. The messages are just…
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Everyone knows how important play is. My 3 and 4 year old love to play games and this year Father Christmas brought them a few good ones, ones they can play on their own, with each other or together as a family. One of their favourites is the Peppa Pig Hide and Seek Game. The Peppa Pig Interactive Hide and Seek Game is great for even the youngest of Peppa fans. This fantastic interactive game for 1 – 4 players of varying ages – means that every fan of Peppa Pig can enjoy it. The game includes a ‘talking’…
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I have a sweet competition for any new parents out there today. As part of my role on the Lindam Munchkin blogger panel I have been given a Latch Newborn Starter Set from Munchkin worth £29.99 to giveaway. With the goal of helping new mums reach their breastfeeding goals, the revolutionary Munchkin LATCH™ bottle feeding system is designed to offer mum everything she needs to make the transition from breast to bottle feeding as natural and comfortable as possible, for mum and baby. Launching in June 2014, and the result of a 3 year programme of in-depth research, and testing,…
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I’m so excited to be able to offer you a really fun giveaway today in partnership with the bi-annual Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day. I have two lovely craft kits up for grabs. For a festive craft activity, this Make Your Own Gingerbread Decoration Kit from the Hobbycraft Christmas range, allows you to create your own handmade decorations! This pack contains everything you need to make three adorable gingerbread characters and a house for the Christmas season. Simply follow the step by step instructions inside to create two gingerbread characters and one gingerbread baby plus a beautifully decorated house, all…
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My Pinterest feed is bulging at the seams with Christmas ideas and inspiration so I thought it would be fun to produce a round up of some fun gingerbread house ideas for kids. Once again I’ve teamed up with the Kids Blogger Network to bring you an amazing giveaway. Don’t forget to read to the bottom of this post for your chance to win one of FOUR $500 cash prizes. Forget baking a gingerbread house from scratch this Christmas! Here are 15 gingerbread house ideas for kids and none of them involve baking. Cardboard seems to be a popular building…
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We were recently offered the chance to make a canvas by Wall Create. You know I love filling my house with paintings, posters and photographs but I’ve never made a canvas before. Instead of reproducing a photograph I thought it would be fun to use one of my sons’ recent drawings. He drew a picture for his nanny which I loved, so I Photoshopped out his writing (which said Happy Birthday!) and sent off his drawing. My 4 year loves to draw and write – in case you can’t tell, this is our family 🙂 A lovely canvas arrived a…
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My 4 year old has just started to become interested in games we can play as a family. With excellent timing we were sent the Play-Doh version of the new Shuffle card games. We had lots of fun with it and I’m pleased to say I have a couple to giveaway at the end of this post. The Play-Doh version of Shuffle is aimed at ages 4 and over. Put simply, game players take it in turns to match their cards which display Play-Doh creations to a centre card by word, colour or story association. You can be as creative…