Here are five ways to add colour to your family home…this is a sponsored post in association with Crown Paint’s Breatheasy range How do you add colour to your family home? As someone who used to mainly wear black and wanted a minimalist, monochrome bedroom, I’m now a total colour convert. I love having colour…
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How a loft conversion with VELUX transformed our family home
Read moreAD – this post is sponsored by VELUX. Are you thinking about a loft conversion? Here are some loft conversion tips, and how having our attic space extended transformed our family home. We are five years into our house renovation and one of the best things we’ve done is have our loft converted. It transformed…
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One book a month: January
Read moreHere’s the first of my one book a month posts, about The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell…One of the things I decided to do this year was read more books. Last year I read three, which was an improvement on the year before’s one-and-a-half, which is shocking considering pre-children I used to read…
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Kids room DIY: easy ways to change up children’s bedrooms (and a mini room tour)
Read moreThe children’s rooms are my favourite in the house, as they can be as colourful and fun as you like, and let’s face it, you can stick all the toys in there away from the rest of the house and not worry about them, can’t you? Anyway! F’s room was inherited from her sister a…
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Are expensive advent calendars worth the money?
Read moreAre expensive advent calendars worth the money? This year we took the plunge and bought the Playmobil advent calendar (for the children) and the M&S beauty one (for me, but the children opened it, of course). These types of advent calendars are ever-so-slightly more pricey than a simple paper or chocolate countdown, so I wanted…
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An ode to wooden toys (and the GLTC Star Beans Coffee Shop)
Read moreToday I’m going to talk about wooden toys, because we’ve been testing out the GLTC Star Beans Coffee Shop, but first, I want to know – have you ever been haunted by a toy? Asking for, well, someone who has *raises hands*. This particular spooky toy is nicknamed the Fun Car in this house, and…
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New children’s books from the Junior Book Club
Read moreDo you ever find yourself reading the same children’s books over and over again, on repeat? (This is the story of how ‘Miffy Goes to Stay’ took an extended holiday in the cupboard when one of my children was very little. Let’s hope she never reads *this*…) It’s always a relief to mix things up…
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