Review – Mac & Ninny Bookplates from The Wise House
Bookplates. I love them. I always have done. As a child, opening up a book and seeing the official ‘This is MINE!’ sticker was always brilliant (maybe because I was the last of four, and very little actually was ‘mine’, most things were my sisters first…). So when The Wise House sent these Mac & ninny bookplates to review, I couldn’t resist them. They’re GORGEOUS! And much nicer than I...
Review – fab sunglasses for children
Sunglasses for children. Do you? I didn’t… but then thought – “why do I need them, and yet presume that my children with their still-developing eyes do not?” So heading off to France this year we were kindly provided with a couple of pairs of children’s sunglasses by the Sunglasses Shop. Brilliant! First up were the 5yr old’s pair of Rocket glasses. I love Rocket – French manufacturer...
Did you see YUU Bag on Dragon’s Den? We TOLD you we loved them!
The year before last we were sent a couple of these new backpacks to try out. My boys swiped them, loved them… and I forgot to write about them (I know, despicable). But last year, as I was packing them for yet another holiday, I got around to telling everyone just how flipping genius the YUU bag is). We ran a competition for the new, smaller YUUtuu this year, and had a most brilliant response, with literally hundreds of entries...
How to make a foam crown
Be the King or Queen of the castle with this easy to make and fun crown design. Thanks to Stacey from cutfoam who offer foam cut to size. Both boys and girls will enjoy making and decorating these crowns. Making this out of foam means it is very comfortable to wear. The jewels and sequins can be bought from any craft shop. You will need: One large sheet of foam Elastic Wooden skewer Jewels and/or sequins for decoration...
Babies In The Cinema – do you?
Five years ago, I was desperate to see the new Harry Potter film. I had a 3mth old baby which I didn’t want to leave with a sitter, so the husband and I decided to take her too. And it was fine – she slept most of the way through, woke at a few of the loud bits, and on the whole it was fine. But I was under no illusions – had she made any noise, I would have had to leave, as this was an evening showing, and the...
*rant alert* My child ‘won’ a Young Writers competition and is going to be published
Today the 9yr old came out of school so full of proud he was steaming at the ears with it. As we walked to the car he couldn’t stop telling me all about it. Not ONLY had he won the school’s ‘Achievers Certificate’ for a ‘fabulous piece of descriptive writing’, but he had ALSO “won a competition with a poem I wrote a-a-a-ges ago and there is a letter in my book bag and it’s going to be in...