Cute Picture Layout

This is another post format. Photoshop documents available with the purchase of the Mary Kate premade blog kit. Jelly beans  jelly beans dragée. Gummies bear claw cheesecake  muffin pudding carrot cake. Tiramisu dragée lemon drops liquorice. Liquorice pudding danish jujubes brownie. Jelly beans tart cotton candy halvah macaroon oat cake topping cake unerdwear.com. Dessert pastry dessert sweet liquorice carrot cake.…

13 months old

Well, all of a sudden Athena is 13 months old! I’ve not done a baby update since she was 10 months old, I meant to do one at a year but by the time I sat down to write it was too late! Sleeping: through the night from around 8 till 8 or later. I was thinking about starting to…

Craft: DIY baby book caddy

   You need: a wooden magazine rack, paint & paintbrushes and some old newspaper and some kitchen roll to rest your paint brush on whilst you sip your tea.  Total cost: £5.20 for two! The racks were a pound each at a boot sale, brushes were a pound for a pack of 5 at Poundland and are so plasticy I…

Habitat A/W

On Wednesday last week I was invited to the Habitat A/W 2014 press day at the Oxo Tower Wharf on London’s south bank.  There was such an amazing array of styles and items, definitely something for everyone. I took lots of photos, but have whittled them down to my favourite few for this post!   The shelf unit below is…

Recent Reads: May & June

Book reviews of some of the books I read in May & June! Click for other book related posts. The Forgotten Daughter – Renita D’Silva A book as part of the Bahlsen Book Club. At first glance I thought it might be a ‘real life sob story’ (which tend to be badly written and not much fun to read) but it wasn’t…

Preparing for Nursery

  Athena is starting at Nursery on the 8th July, with three settling in sessions this week. It’s a nice small nursery with a very homely feel. I’m not too worried about leaving her there as I know she adores other people, especially children (as long as they are okay with her poking their eyes and pulling at their hair)…

Video Post Format

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My Breastfeeding story

Hopefully you’ll have read my post on Top 10 breastfeeding tips and Breastfeeding past a year already, but I also wanted to write about my story from the start, so that when it is over I can look back and remind myself of how it worked for us. The first few weeks: In hospital Athena latched on (albeit painfully!) right…

In June I…

I’ve not done a ‘what I’ve been up to’ ramble/waffle post for a while, so now whilst my mum is over and has offered to ‘do bedtime’ I thought I’d escape to my room with my laptop and get to it. It’s been so long in fact and so close to the end of the month that I am going…

Thoughts: Show-off Mums and why they annoy me

My last ‘thoughts’ post about parenting style was about a bad parent I witnessed (in my opinion, you may not agree) and I think the person in today’s post is almost as bad but for different reasons. I’m started writing this on a train home from London.  I’m sat on a fold-down seat with Athena in her buggy opposite me…

Breastfeeding past a year

I never really thought about when we would stop breastfeeding. We got to six months, all was fine and dandy so we carried on (hey, saves money on formula!) and then we got to twelve months and we’re still going… with no plans to stop just yet. We still feed in public when needed although these times are few and…

My top tips for keeping kids safe in the sun

I’m hoping that by now the majority of the UK has had some proper sunshine, we definitely have down here and all my buggy-pushing in the sun has paid off as I have nicely tanned hands and feet (sadly I still have white legs though!) But this summer my priority is keeping Athena cool and protecting her delicate skin. Last…