Spotted! Wooden Farm Set they way I remember them.
When I was small I had a brilliant animal set. I loved it. Zoo animals mostly, but Wooden Farm Set animals too – and I played with them endlessly. But I thought such toys were old hat. Gone. Passed in an era of pink plastic and flashing lights. Which is why I get all warm and glowy inside when I see classic imaginative play wooden toys – not a whiney siren or electronic voice in sight. When my glance fell on this little...
Magic shoes for happy feet?
Really? Well… yes. I think my daughter feels that these magic little slippers most certainly make her feet happy. In fact, when I asked her, she considered it very carefully, head on one side, lips pursed, and replied “yes, my toes are DEFINTALLY happy when I have pink daisies on”. So – there you have it. And what’s not happy-making from a company who has design categories called Kiss Me Quick, Roses and...
The Grown Up ‘baby bag’ – The Storksak Jamie
The thing with Baby Changing Bags isn’t so much the design, these days – there are lots of them around, one to suit most people, and fewer and fewer are decorated with teddy bears. No, it’s more the fact that you only have a baby for a short period of time. But you have children for much MUCH longer. My children are now 11, 9, 7 and 3 – and I still find that a normal handbag doesn’t quite cut it. Of...
I. Love. Lego. (and that goes for the magazine too)
If you’re a parent, I find you’re in one of three camps. Loved lego as a child but a) your children aren’t old enough yet b) you can’t bear the thought of all those BITS c) you’ve been ‘got’, and can wince in sympathetic agony if someone whipers “lego knee” at you. But I have never met anyone who doesn’t like Lego. I mean really – what’s not to like? It’s...
Kickers. Pink ones. ’nuff said.
There aren’t many words to be able to share with you the happiness that comes with this fabulous pair of classic Kick Hi boots from Kickers. These boots are just never off her feet – and this is the girl who hates shoes and wants to go everywhere barefoot… First day at pre-school. Can’t smile for the camera, too busy admiring shoes. Totally up to this hill-walking malarky. Move over, Boring Big...
The most delicious Baby Gifts
Natures Purest is a fab site stuffed full of sweet and lovey things – made all the more so by the fact that every single on of them is made from 100% natural and pure cotton. No dyes. No bleach. No chemical pesticides. No heavy metals. No formaldehyde. No chlorinated phenoles. No chloro-organic carriers. No biologically active finished. Just 100% Natural and Pure. Really – would you want to put much else next to your...