Here’s a really simple way to give an extra dollop of lovely to an image that you want to add to your blog using PicMonkey.com. By adding a label to an image you can create a pretty little caption area. In this example I show you how to attach a couple of labels to an [...]
Tomorrow Wee Z turns 5. That’s half a decade. Scary! At the age of 5, he faces his biggest coming of age yet by starting school after the summer holidays. He can’t wait. I wish it wasn’t happening so soon. Here is my son’s fifth year in pictures: Like this?Read more… Recommended by Yummy Mummy [...]
After what seemed like an age, although it was only a month since our trip to Wales, we headed right out of town last weekend to the New Forest coast and Bournemouth. Making the most of a cheap hotel room deal, we only had one night away but we packed loads in (and loads into [...]
This is a cautionary tale about checking what you are printing very carefully! I was so frustrated that my first Wiksten tank was too big – it’s close to being the perfect pattern and I knew I’d be wearing it all summer (if we ever get a summer…) as long as I could get the [...]
Whether you are a royalist or not, you can’t deny that the Jubilee is bringing the country together in a unique way. I mean when else are street parties not only accceptable but commonplace? Every commercial company seems to have cottoned on and it is not only your biscuit tins that are patriotic – suddenly [...]
Bunting everywhere, red, white and blue in the shops and (finally) some lovely sunshine has got me feeling all patriotic and ready for the jubilee so I decided to whip up a crown for E. She loves wearing hats of any kind when she plays dressing-up (unlike when she’s in the sun and refuses to [...]
Where did my baby angel go? My perfect baby who slept through the night from 10 weeks old, my pride and joy who never cried, napped and everyone envied….. Fast forward to a child who never naps, or rarely naps….now this isn’t a new thing really – Emmy got used to falling asleep in the [...]
Three years ago, some dear friends and I opened a joint bank account. We each agreed to deposit just £15 a month into this account, with the view of celebrating our 40th birthdays together. At the time, we didn’t know where we would go or what we would do, but having supported one another through [...]
What £5.00 a Gallon Brings To Your Driveway. The Smart Car is what we will be forced to drive quite soon. But look at all of the ‘great new choices, that we will have from evolving from ‘The SMART Car’. The cars below are in the design stage and coming to you soon. Like this?Read [...]
The joy of putting in the effort and waiting! Like this?Read more… Recommended by Eco Thrifty Living
I was recently contacted by the lovely Tania Tirraoro who told me about DysNet a new online community to support people with limb differences (otherwise known as Dysmelia) and with having a limb abnormality myself I was only too happy to help. The DysNet site went live on Monday 21st May and aims to provide [...]
How many times have I mentioned the words ‘I’ ‘want’ and ‘job’ on various different blog posts and elsewhere? Since 2008, I’ve applied for every suitable job I could find. But somehow they all fell through. Someone was always ill, or I messed up the interview, or I was too old, or any one of [...]
The transition from career girl to stay at home mummy, sure ain’t easy….. Like this?Read more… Recommended by The Accidental Mogul
I look at my boy and I wonder about so many things. What is he thinking, what is he feeling, what does he see, hear, smell, like, dislike? And I may never know the answers to my wonderings, but I can hope for what they may be. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Tricky Customer
One question we are asked a lot is about Samuel’s bedtime. ‘Does Samuel sleep well at bedtime?’ This is often asked by other parents, especially when they see Samuel in a very long, deep sleep and I think they worry that he wont sleep for us at bedtime. But he sleeps very well at bedtime [...]
The kids were delighted with a special delivery they received last week. Inside their parcel was a bag with some books from Barefoot Books. We were sent a World Atlas, The Giant Turnip, The Prince’s Bedtime and Terrible Chenoo. Wee Z immediately went off with the World Atlas book. He already has an Atlas that [...]
Hurray! It’s finished!!!! Part of me wants to say ‘well, its not all that’ or point out some problem with it and generally put it down. But you know what? I’m actually quite pleased with it so I’m going to do my very best for once to just be happy. Like this?Read more… Recommended by [...]
Last Thursday we excitedly packed our suitcases into the car, the sun was already shining, bringing with it promises of an awesome couple of days. We were heading off to Holland to attend the wedding of the year and visit dear friends and family, perfect I hear you cry! The plane journey passed without a [...]
We considered all the challenges that the move would present. We thought about all the pros and cons of such a move and actually started to get excited about it. We imagined how different our lives would be, how many more opportunities our children would find they had and how we could both reinvent ourselves [...]
Today we went up to Rhianna Lily’s garden and added the stones that Baba brought for her on the Isle of Wight. “So she has some of the Isle of Wight with her Mummy” He melts our heart the way he thinks of her, and remembers her where ever we are and whatever we are [...]
