How to Make DIY Wall Stickers For Kid’s Rooms We’ve been making our own DIY wall stickers for children’s rooms, something that occurred to me at, well, 3am at one point this week. So here’s how (and why): What happens when your non-sleeping three-year-old sleeps *whispers* through the night? You wake up a million times…
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How To Build A Lego Table To Store Lego And Duplo
Read moreAre You Drowning In Lego And Duplo? Here’s How We Built A Portable Lego Table Here’s how we build a Lego table…If your house is anything like our house – which I imagine, if you have small children, it probably is – then there will be a lot of Lego around. Mainly on the floor,…
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I have the power! How to save energy as a family
Read moreHow do you save energy as a family? It’s tricky to save energy as a family when you seem to use a lot of it – heating always on, three washer loads a day….sound at all familiar? One of the ways we save energy as a family is with smart meters from British Gas, which…
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Five things: what we’ve read, watched and liked lately
Read moreHands up, I did mean to do a weekly round-up of things we’ve done and liked each week, but seem to have failed (here’s the first and only instalment so far). So let’s try again, shall we? Here are five things we’ve read and watched recently, for both my children and me: Motherland: Have you…
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Three new festive favourites (who cares that it’s only November?!)
Read moreHi there, it’s me again! Things have been kind of quiet around here recently due to various combinations of life things, most recently 75% of the house having some kind of dreadful lurgy that’s gone on for so long that I’m even boring myself with my weakly-coughing woe. However on Sunday we burst out of…
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Colourful Christmas hampers from John Lewis, chosen by my children
Read moreI know, I know, I’m going there possibly a bit early with the C word – but for once we’ve actually made a start on our shopping and have put together a colourful Christmas hamper from John Lewis, full of treats for a Grandma who needs cheering up. And when I say we, I really…
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Magnetic Picture Frames: A Clever Idea For Displaying Kid’s Art
Read moreWe’ve Found Magnetic Picture Frames – A Great Idea For Displaying Kid’s Art We’ve been trying out magnetic picture frames, which are a great way of storing kid’s art. Do your children produce a lot of pictures, meaning you are always looking for new ways display of displaying and / or strategically ‘managing’ it all?!…
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