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[ 1 Dec 2011 | One Comment ]
Playmobil zoo

We’ve been sent some fantastic things to try over the last couple of months that would make great christmas gifts, these have been two of my favourites!
For the kids

The playmobil zoo would make the perfect main present from Santa. Like all playmobil stuff it takes a while to set up but it really is worth the effort. What’s cool is that now we have quite a few sets all the stuff is interchangeable as it’s all set to the same scale. It’s like playmobil heaven here …

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[ 1 Nov 2011 | No Comment ]
Benji

Shloer
We love Shloer here, in fact it was our drink of choice last Christmas – Erin loves the white grape. We tasted the limited edition berry punch which was delicious with a drier flavour. It might have to be a bottle of each this Christmas!

Animagic Benji
I’m tipping Benji to be one of the top toys this Christmas. For kids without pets it’s great, almost like a real life puppy. Benji lives in a ‘dog basket’ (a fashioned cardboard box) in Erin’s room. I’m not sure if …

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[ 9 May 2011 | One Comment ]

I have a bit of a thing about packaging.
My new boyfriend was thrown into a complete panic at Christmas, spending far too long agonising over different wrapping papers, after my sister told him I would care far more about the wrappings than the presents.
I have a whole dressing table covered in make-up that I hardly ever use, simply because I like the little boxes it comes it. All perfectly healthy I?m sure. After all, it?s what?s on the outside that counts right?
It was the gorgeous packaging then that drew me …

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[ 12 Apr 2011 | No Comment ]
Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa Air Penguin

I must admit that again, this book wasn’t really one my daughter wanted to read. This may have been because she hasn’t actually watched any of the films. She did enjoy it once we got started whilst my little man really enjoyed all the noises on each page!
Again the format of this book was the same as all the others so after we read the book with the Tag pen, my daughter went back and played a few of the games as well as trying to read the words after …

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[ 5 Apr 2011 | No Comment ]
Grande Mansion by Playmobil

I was very pleased when this arrived during half term. It’s a brand new toy from Playmobil – The Grande Mansion.

This is one heck of a dolls house built over three floors. The main set is the structure of the house and all the ‘rooms’ come in seperate packages. It took ages to build as each piece of furniture has several bits to it. Usually this sort of thing would hack me off but in this case I felt it was worth it as the end …

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[ 19 Feb 2011 | 5 Comments ]
See The Wiggles in Concert!

COME AND CELEBRATE THE WIGGLES? 20TH BIRTHDAY ON THEIR 2011 UK TOUR!
The Wiggles are very proud to be bringing their Greatest Hits Tour to the UK & Ireland in 2011! The fun begins on 19th May in Belfast and continues to Castlebar, Killarney, Dublin,Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Brighton, Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and finishes up with two days of shows at London?s HMV Apollo on 4th & 5th June.
In 2011 the band will celebrate their 20th birthday so with twenty years of hits such as ?Hot Potato?, ?Fruit Salad?, ?Rock A …

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[ 13 Feb 2011 | One Comment ]
Dance Juniors and Bambi

Guest post by BigDaddy
Dance Juniors for Nintendo Wii

I fired up the Wii for the first time in months today (Kinect has dominated family game time recently) so Erin could try out her new Dance Juniors game. The game relies on co-ordination (which I have none of) so I was merely tech support on this one!
My help wasn?t needed all that much though as Erin found navigating all the menus very easy and choosing the songs to dance to was a doddle.
The song choice for kids is …

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[ 23 Jan 2011 | 3 Comments ]
How to Start Sewing

Guest post by Leah

Sewing is making a big comeback at the moment, and there are more and more funky sewing pattern companies and fabrics becoming available, making it really good fun to sew children?s clothing. If you?re a beginner sewer and/or don?t have much confidence, sewing kids? clothes is a great way to start as they tend to be easy and relatively quick to make. You?ll feel a real sense of accomplishment when you finish your first item of clothing, and your child will look great and have something totally …

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[ 20 Jan 2011 | One Comment ]
Review of WellStart & Giveaway!

I’ve been super busy with my own launch this week so I’ve drafted in some help to test this new product.

Over to my guest reviewer Modupe.
When I first read the description of WellStart, the first thing that came to mind were other online equivalents ? why pay for something when you can get something similar for free? But on using the program, I found that there are so many cool features that make WellStart worth the money, and besides, it was developed by two mums so it’s got to …

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[ 18 Jan 2011 | One Comment ]
Modelling Tatty Bumpkin

Erin’s a total girl. She loves dressing up, pink and anything that sparkles, shimmers or that can be applied to beautify. Her vanity case makes my own make up bag look, well, rather ridiculous. I’m a grown woman and my four year old has more make up, nail varnish and lip glosses than me!

As you can imagine the chance to model clothes was never going to be passed up. Given the option of a vlog or pictures she went for pictures. She quickly changed into …