The new Glow Pets | Christmas Gift Guide
Last Christmas, Jolly found a total bargain, and snapped up a Pillow Pet for his little sister in a sale. She’d seen them on TV and coo-ed over them, and he just knew she’d love it. And she did. But none of us relaised quite how much she would love it. I’ve not been able to get her to sleep on a pillow for a year now…. The only thing she sleeps on is her unicorn Pillow Pet. So when she saw the new version, the...
Have you got an old-fashioned Cassette player for your child? Pre-Christmas Shopping
Any child of the 70’s or 80’s will remember these… Oh the hours I’d spend, recording songs off the radio, wearing out tapes as I hit pause/play/pause/play line by line so that I could write down all the lyrics to Rick Astley. I have a couple of precious tapes of my sister and I singing as she practiced her guitar, and the mix tapes… Oh, the memories that are spooled onto those mix tapes! But...
The Tiny Bedroom Makeover – it’s the Grand Reveal!
As regular readers know, we’ve been hard at work the last week on our Tiny Bedroom Makeover, creating a total transformation in our 7yr old daughters’ L-shaped tiny shoebox bedroom. You can follow all the Tiny Bedroom Makeover posts here, but this is the end result. And we’re a bit pleased with how it finally turned out… Remember – this is where we began. Green walls, still in her cotbed, no storage,...
Missing a finishing touch to the makeover – and wall stickers were IT! #TinyRoomMakeover
So having decided on the plain walls, and properly loving their simple plain-ness, we wavered once the room started to be filled. The entrance ‘leg’ by the door was just a little too plain. Her easel had been broken down, and the chalk and white boards were mounted on the right, but on the left we had nothing. The husband picked up a cute little photo frame, but it was too small to fill the wide stretch of wall that first...
Solving the impossible; which bed fits a kid’s tiny bedroom? #TinyRoomMakeover
So the room is now all set and ready to be refilled. We’d upcycled some furniture, we’d painted new shelves, we’d thought about storage. But how to choose the bed… When we started the whole room, this is where we began the design process. The room is so very tiny that the bed had to the main feature. We’d tried all sorts of options on paper. We decided the best option was definitely to lift the bed off...
The one where she chose PURPLE carpet #TinyRoomMakeover
When you’ve lived for a very long time with very old carpet, you simply cease to notice it. Like you don’t notice your nose. It’s just there, doing it’s job; your eyes can see it but your brain chooses to ignore it. Same thing with old carpet – you’re so used to it, you simply stop seeing and feeling it. Stop noticing how horrible it is. Ripping out that skanky old 1980’s peach carpet was...