Kumi Kreator Jewellery maker

KumiCreator Bracelet & Necklace maker review

Disclosure: We were sent the featured product for the purpose of this post however all opinions are my own. Who remembers making friendship bracelets at school? I do! But I don’t remember how to make the patterns and   designs in them, my memory can’t think 30 years back that clearly! But there’s now a really easy way to  make both…

Creating Personalised cards for the family

Like so many of us all over the world I have found myself thrown into the world of homeschooling, with absolutely no choice on the matter! The kids are probably  bored of me trying to teach them things like maths and english and I am desperately  searching for new ways to entertain them. They’re suffering from not seeing their friends…

Convenient Diet ready-made meals from DietBon, my experience

I had lots of good intentions to start getting fitter and shaping up when I got back from New York (where I enjoyed lots of great but not very healthy food!) and then Corona virus happened. I was planning on supplementing walking my two school runs a day with  either starting couch to 5k again or going to the gym…

Toys: Bakugan Battle Arena Review

Arlo loves  anything that changes shape, so when a parcel of Bakugan toys arrived and he opened it up to find lots of BakuBalls inside along with  the Bakugan Armored Alliance Battle Arena he got pretty excited! What is Bakugan? Bakugan started life as an animated TV series about creatures called ‘Bakugan’ and their owners, who do brawls with them. …

Scrapbook Loves March 2020

Well March has been a bit of a disaster hasn’t it! The buzz-words of the month are definitely ‘Social Distancing’,   ‘Lockdown’, ‘home learning’ and ‘C0ronavirus’.  It’s definitely a month that nobody will forget. As usual I tried to escape reality by sleeping more and reading more, and have been quite successful in both, and less so in teaching the children…

3d dinosaur discovery puzzles

Giveaway – DISCOVERY DINOSAUR JIGSAW Puzzles

We all love jigsaw puzzles in this house,  they used to be reserved for  a post school treat or a Sunday afternoon activity  after we’d been out for the day. However as none of us are going anywhere much during these lockdown times puzzles have become more of a regular occurence in our   house these past few weeks. A great…

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Celebrating Trolls 2 with Plush Toys

Trolls World Tour, the sequel to the first Trolls movie has been released to watch now, skipping the cinema release so that we can all watch at home! My kids, Athena especially, have been waiting for this for ages, and we would have seen it at the cinema during the Easter holidays. But due to lockdown we’re really pleased it…

me and mine family photo march 2020

Family Snaps March 2020

I have been pretty lazy with the ‘Me and Mine’ posts that I have been so good with  over the years. Normally  I share a photo of our family at the end of each month but this year it just hasn’t happened until now, a quarter of the way through the toughest year ever (as 2020 will probably be forever…

Playing with Osmo

Osmo Genius & Little Genius Review – perfect for kids at home!

Just when you thought you knew all about the ways to use tech to keep your kids entertained (including asking Alexa to make fart noises) you find something that blows everything else out of the water. It’s not only fun, but also educational enough to count as learning, which during these strange covid19 infused times is more important than ever! Osmo is a super…

gigantosaurus the game

Review: Gigantosaurus the Game!

Ad – pre-release copy of game & review items Now more than ever  we’re all searching for things to keep our kids busy at home, and   Gigantosaurus The Game has been keeping my two children occupied  for the past couple of weeks as we were lucky enough to be given advanced access to the game, which is available on March…

Wanderlust: Liverpool’s instagrammable spots

This is  a collaborative post I’ve not been to Liverpool since before we had kids, but Sam and I spent a weekend there a few months before we got married and I  remember it fondly! We stayed  in a hotel in Albert Dock , which was the perfect base to explore the city from.  I think it was before I…

athena in waterstones

Scrapbook Loves Feb 2020

Well February  flew by didn’t it? Punctuated with a half term that  dragged a little towards the end  because I  arranged all our playdates in the first half of the week… whoops! I mean the torrential rain didn’t help either! I mean, we’re definitely not fair weather folk and do go out and about when it’s wet, cold and miserable…