• Little Sis turns 6!
    birthday - parenting

    Little Sis turns 6! {Netflix birthdays on demand}

    November 28, 2017 - By 

    Today Little Sis turned 6! It’s hard to believe she is 6, its such a cliche but it really does feel as though she was born yesterday. We had her birthday party a few weekends ago so the house has been full of birthday cards, balloons, a birthday banner and presents. I was super organised and bought and wrapped all her presents a few weeks ago, so all I needed to do last night was bring the presents down – ready for this morning. I woke Little Sis early this morning as I was working. Fortunately she woke with a…

  • grow a fairy garden
    crafts - Fairy garden crafts - Kids crafts

    How to grow a fairy garden

    April 18, 2016 - By 

    I’m clearly suggestible as a few weeks ago I saw lots of bloggers posting their reviews of the Fairy Garden Kit and had to buy my own. We’ve had so much fun building our own fairy gardens so I’m not quite sure why I needed to buy this kit. However the children were excited and I knew they would love watching the grass grow. It was a lovely sunny day when we bought our kit so were able to build it outside. The kit contained a fairy garden bowl, fairy figure, oyster shell, foam fairy cottage, clothes line with pegs…

  • Christmas - Gift guide

    Sylvanian Families gift guide

    December 22, 2015 - By 

    The other day I shared my Minecraft gift guide with you. My 5 year old loves Minecraft and will be receiving some of the items featured. Today I am sharing my Sylvanian Families gift guide. My 4 year old loves playing with her playsets and figures and will be adding a lot more to her collection this Christmas. Little Sis has recently had a birthday so received some wonderful new toys to play with. These included the Sylvanian Families Chiffon Dog Family, Sylvanian Families Campervan and Sylvanian Families Bluebell Seven Seater. She loves putting the figures in vehicles and taking them away…

  • Kids crafts - tutorial

    Divali lamp made with air drying clay

    October 23, 2015 - By 

    Little Sis and I have been going to our local Creation Station for a couple of weeks. She loves to craft and has been enjoying trying something new each week. This week she was experimenting with air drying clay and ended up making a lovely tea light holder which is perfect for celebrating divali. How to make a Divali lamp made with air drying clay  First Little Sis was given a lump of air drying clay to play with. She was happy rolling it in her hands and adding a little bit of water to make it wet and malleable.…

  • Halloween crafts - Kids crafts - Staedtler Try It Tribe

    Inventing our own Halloween characters

    October 13, 2015 - By 

    Halloween is all about pumpkins, ghosts and bats in our house. Thankfully we were challenged to create our own Halloween characters using a selection of Staedtler products. My 3 year old was excited to get creating and used pencils to design her special Halloween character. She decided to draw a scary spider. She gave it a body, 8 legs, 2 eyes and a smile – not very scary! Then she coloured it in with the highlighters. I love the fact the legs look like hair and it’s smiling. She was very proud of her spider I’m a member of the…

  • sleeping

    Cinderella Junior Readybed review

    April 11, 2015 - By 

    Little Sis has completely fallen in love with the story of Cinderella. Over the Easter holiday we went to see the new Cinderella film starring Lily James and Richard Madden. We were also lucky enough to see some of the beautiful costumes and props in a pop up Disney’s Cinderella exhibition in Leicester Square. We were recently offered a Cinderella Junior Readybed from WorldsApart to review and I knew Little Sis would love it, so said yes please! In case you are not familiar, ReadyBed is the original all-in-one sleeping bag and bed that has got quick comfort covered. ReadyBed’s…

  • Day Zero

    Monday happy things

    April 6, 2015 - By 

    I feel a little late posting my Monday happy things but we’ve had a busy long weekend away. Now we’re happily back at home and unpacked and I feel I have a few moments to reflect on last week. – I loved watching my 3 year old decorate her Easter bonnet. She chose a pretty purple straw hat and decorated it with felt animals from Hobbycraft. This year she really enjoyed taking part in the Easter bonnet parade at her nursery. – Over the Easter weekend we ate at The Bell in Rode which was lovely. We found out we…

  • homestyle - interiors

    Creating a reading corner for children

    March 29, 2015 - By 

    I have always loved to read so it’s no surprise that I wanted my children to love reading too. They’ve been members of the local library since they were weeks old and we regularly attend Storytime sessions and read before bed. I wanted to create a book corner for my children in each of their bedrooms. They both have quite different taste in books and I wanted to make sure they had easy access to their books but also be able to keep them tidy too 🙂 For the past few years we’ve used a fantastic cardboard box from bigbooklittlebookcardboardbox.…

  • playing - toy review

    Doc McStuffins Specialist Dentist Dottie Doll

    March 11, 2015 - By 

    The other day I told you how much my 3 year old loves Doc McStuffins, so much so that she dressed up as Doc McStuffins on World Book Day. Last week Little Sis was pretty lucky to open a package containing the new Doc McStuffins Specialist Dentist Dottie Doll from Flair which she was sent to review. In case you haven’t heard, Dottie ‘Doc’ McStuffins, is a six year old girl who ‘fixes’ toys, with a little help from her stuffed animal friends, Stuffy, Hallie, Lambie and Chilly. My 3 year old loved the look of the new Doc McStuffins…