Today we made a start on the festive crafting list I put together the other week. A friend found me some cheap metal bangles on eBay which I duly purchased and had a quick play with. This was my first go at a crocheted hoop, partly inspired by MollieMakes Magazine and partly from my Christmas […]
Archives for November 2011
Corolle Dolls Lila Crying Baby Doll Give Away Competition
This weeks give away, thanks to DKL, is for a Corolle Lila Crying Baby Doll. She’s an adorable 42cm doll who has been hugely popular this year, regularly selling out of all the stock in the country. She retails at £54.95 and does all the typical feature doll things – cooing, crying, giggling and sucking […]
The one where I decide vlogging is not my thing
I like blogging (I know, go figure!) – I love that I get to craft words. I also love to talk (I know, I know) and for all my normal working life I was a sales person who relished selling products I believed in to people I could see. I still do. I’m passionate about […]
Hello baby
Trying not to think too hard about the fact that stress can harm an unborn child. Its been a stressful few days. Somehow I’m booked on a section list. That wasn’t quite what I meant to happen and now that I am, I am deeply sure that is not how I want this baby to […]
Unrecognisable to myself
I don’t know how old I was when I saw the film Philadelphia; I saw it at the cinema, with my friend who had a close family friend dying of AIDS at the time, contracted while working in Africa before anyone knew to be wary. We were teenagers. I don’t think I’ve seen the film […]
Wonderworld Wooden Crane Giveaway
Wonderworld was the first wooden toys brand that PlayMerrily Toys sold. By the time I really knew the brand, our girls had started to get a little big for the early years wooden toys in the range but they’ve loved a castle and wooden cooking pots from it. Mini World has been one of the […]
Christmas crafting coming around again.
Last year Christmas was such an effort; after the joy of enjoying the run up to it in 2009 so much (heavily pregnant but finally free of the desperate rush to pack parcels and run the business all on my own) last year was a major kick in the teeth. Making Christmas festive while you […]
27 Weeks Pregnant
Time is marching on. Mostly, I’m still relaxed, though the worries about birthing this person are getting on top of me at times. Mostly Marmite moves enough to keep me sane. It’s a new experience though, this need to feel a movement any time I wake in the night and before I get up in […]
Home improvements.
A while ago I wrote about wanting to improve how the house looks a bit. A lot of this comes down to tidiness and decluttering and all that (I do try, it isn’t terrible!) but it needs some homely touches too. And most of that needs to come from things which can be pretty as […]
The home ed bits.
Life, aside from being extremely busy, is very peaceful here, back into the rhythm we all find comfortable and comforting. The girls get their stuff done first thing (currently we’re doing lots of maths, verbal and non verbal reasoning, spelling, grammar games and reading practise) and then, with that done by 11am or so, we’re […]