Last weekend, I was invited along to an event organised by Moonpig, your one-stop online shop for cards, gifts and flowers for all occasions. The event was part of their campaign to ‘make time to celebrate the times that matter’, with an afternoon of fun workshops to get us fired up for Father’s Day. We […] Read more…
Time is all around us – Breakfast time. Time for play group. Time for school. Party time. Dinner time. Bed time. From a very young age, children hear about ‘time’, but grasping the concept of time and learning to tell the time are not so easy. My 8 year old still struggles to tell the […] Read more…
With Mothering Sunday looming here in the UK at the end of March, and then Mother’s Day in May in many other parts of the world including Germany (must remember to buy a card for my mum now to send her in May!), I thought it would be fun to put together a wee gift […] Read more…
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the start of the Year of the Pig, so I thought I would share a little anecdote with you of how my mum ended up knitting a pig for the world’s largest pig museum! When I was about four years old, my mum knitted me a pig, hence forth known […] Read more…
On the 10th Day of Christmas…As people are boldly declaring “Christmas is over for another year”, and Christmas trees start prematurely appearing on street curbs, we are still very much embracing the Christmas season which – as in the famous song – of course lasts for twelve days. We’ve had a week filled with cookies […] Read more…
So a week ago I turned 40, and I decided to embrace this major milestone of my life by throwing a big circus themed party. I had seen loads of pics of gorgeous circus and carnival themed parties on Pinterest, so I set out to recreate something of the feel but without breaking the bank. […] Read more…
Have I mentioned yet how much I love Autumn? Every year, I have a long list of things I want to do with the kids during Autumn, and every year we get to the end of Autumn and have forgotten about half of them. So this year I’m being more organised and I have made […] Read more…
To complete the home tour of our apartment, I was going to share some pictures of our kitchen, but since starting my little series we have actually moved house! We’ve said farewell to our views of Edinburgh Castle, and moved in to a place of our own just a couple of blocks up the road. […] Read more…
Today I wanted to share with you something a little different – Muddy Creatures, a cross between a kids clothing service and a surprise subscription box, is not something I would have used in the past, but I recently won a shopping voucher for them in a giveaway, which gave me the chance to try […] Read more…
Since sharing a tour of my boys’ new room the other week, I’ve been asked several times if I could share some more of the rest of our apartment. So, ever eager to please (haha), I present to you our living room! And no, it’s not always this tidy. It lasted for about all of […] Read more…