• Mindful Christmas crafting and Crafternoons
    Crafts for adults - mindfulness

    Mindful Christmas crafting and Crafternoons

    December 11, 2018 - By 

    {This is a guest post I am happily hosting to promote awareness of the mental health charity Mind and their Crafternoons, written by Jayanthi Ezekiel. The official ‘day’ for Crafternoon was 1st December, however, Mind are encouraging people to host their Crafternoon on a day that suits you and feel there are still opportunities for Christmas crafternoons to take place this month! I’m a huge advocate of the benefits of crafting so please read on.} Mindful Christmas crafting and Crafternoons For most of us, Christmas is hectic. Presents to wrap, cards to write, social events to shine at – phew! However,…

  • Family Life - mindfulness - Monday Happy List

    Monday Mindfulness – 5 Happy Things

    December 10, 2018 - By 

    Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to 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 enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things I love this time of year as there is so much going on. I enjoy my Christmas crafting too and had fun creating some Chocolate Christmas Tree Pretzels. You can find the full recipe here…

  • Family Life - mindfulness - Monday Happy List

    Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things

    December 3, 2018 - By 

    Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to 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 enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things Last week was especially busy as we celebrated my daughter’s 7th birthday. She was incredibly excited and I planned a Hatchimals theme as that’s her favourite toy at the moment. We had Hatchimals gifts, tableware,…

  • Family Life - Monday Happy List

    Monday mindfulness- 5 happy things

    November 26, 2018 - By 

    Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to 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 enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things This week has gone super quickly as I had two days off, thanks to a work conference. I was so happy to have two days to myself and managed to do lots of Christmas shopping,…

  • Mindful creativity with the Autumn Craftpod sub box
    Crafts for adults - Relationships - subscription box

    Mindful creativity with the Autumn Craftpod sub box

    November 20, 2018 - By 

    I’ve had loads of fun with the latest Craftpod subscription box. I wanted to share the projects as they are so lovely. Craftpod is a quarterly subscription box which usually includes a couple of seasonal craft projects, stationery and always a tea bag of some sorts. It’s my favourite crafty subscription box. Mindful creativity with the Autumn Craftpod sub box The Autumn Craftpod landed on my doorstep a few months ago. It contained a really fun paper project by Kate Kato of Kasasagi Designs, an Autumn treasure embroidery, seasonal postcard, English Breakfast teabag and roll of Japanese MT washi tape.…

  • Family Life - mindfulness - Monday Happy List

    Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things

    November 19, 2018 - By 

    Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to 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 enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things I’d like to think we had a quiet week after our adventure-packed weekend in Oxford last weekend. However, like most weeks, it’s been super busy at work and at home. Did you notice I have…

  • Remembrance Day painted rock
    Family Life - Monday Happy List

    Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things

    November 12, 2018 - By 

    Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend, especially if you were taking part in the Remembrance Day events. Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to 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 enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things I’ve managed to get my crafting groove back! It’s been tricky juggling work with my children but I’ve been making a conscious effort to…

  • Orla Kiely inspired pumpkin
    Family Life - mindfulness - Monday Happy List

    Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things

    November 5, 2018 - By 

    Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the lovely weather we’ve been experiencing. Did you make it out to a Firework display? Unfortunately we didn’t this year but we have enjoyed hearing all the fireworks going off around us 🙂 Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to 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 enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things…

  • visiting Woodhenge
    Family Life - mindfulness - Monday Happy List

    Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things

    October 29, 2018 - By 

    Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather we’ve been experiencing in London over half term. Each week I start off by writing my Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things blog post. It’s a great chance to 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 enjoy writing. Monday mindfulness – 5 happy things We started the week in Wiltshire with a brief visit to my mum. The weather was so good to us and we stopped…