Favorite Things Post This is An Especially Long Title

This is yet another post layout format available in Photoshop document format with the Mary Kate premade blog kit. Jujubes chocolate ice cream. Cheesecake cupcake sweet roll chocolate apple pie. Donut jelly-o chocolate candy gingerbread icing cheesecake bear claw gingerbread. Gummi bears gingerbread muffin apple pie dragée soufflé. Gummies jujubes jujubes muffin tootsie roll sugar plum chocolate bar muffin chocolate…

Birthdays, weddings & other things

So things have been a little hectic here recently, so I wanted to sit down and write a post to get all the ‘stuff’ out of my head in the hopes that it might help me clear my head a little and refocus. The major stressor has been my irrational decision that I must move my blog to wordpress RIGHT…

A whole year

This time last year I was sat waiting at the hospital in my unflattering hospital gown waiting to go through to the operating theatre to have my Baby. Now as I write this she is happily sat in her highchair munching a piece of peanut butter on toast and bouncing up and down to the music on the radio. Fastest…

First Fathers Day

This year will be Sam’s first fathers day, he’s pretty excited about it too! I’ve already sorted him a card from Athena which is more than I got on Mothers day! (I’m still a bit bitter can you tell? In his defence we were on holiday with friends and my friend got given a card by her husband that she’d…

Nursery decor: On the walls

This Nursery decor post is a bit more about what’s on the walls, I’ve talked about an easy DIY picture wall before, and this post has another couple of easy ideas for what to pop on your little darlings walls! As anyone with a baby in nappies will contest they wriggle like worms when being changed so we put an…

Home envy: living room inspiration

  Everyone’s allowed to dream right? Sam tells me off when we walk or drive past a house and I say “we’ll never be able to afford that… dream big” So I’ve decided to channel my frustration into a series of posts about our ‘forever home’ and what I’d love for it to look like, and first up is the…

The work decision

So despite ranting and raving and making it a new years resolution to not go back to work, I am going back to work and I’m looking forward to it, shock horror! After 13 months I think I am ready. The idea of going back to work and not being with Athena all day was an awful one, in the…

What the baby read: Weather & Zoos

Now Athena is becoming a lot more interested in books I’m seeking out titles that are more interactive for her. Pop up books are still not quite safe to be left with her for solo ‘reading’ sessions but good for our before bed reading times when we’re together. These two books were sent to us by Egmont publishing for us…

Dirty blondes & blindfolds

      Last Tuesday I spent the evening mostly blindfolded, with a glass of wine in one hand and a spoonful of unidentified food in the other… why? I was ‘Dining in the dark’ at Dirty Blonde in Brighton.    I was invited along to the battle of the bloggers, and the idea was to feed us 10 tasters…

Zig Zags

  I’ll admit that I had always labelled Bon Marché in my mind as for ‘middle aged’ people who like bright patterns (I’ve just turned 30, am I middle aged?) When I was asked if I wanted to choose something from their range of dresses I was pretty sceptical as to if I would actually like anything but I was…

DIY Baby sensory jars

The final #RespectThePasta challenge was ‘to get the whole family involved with pasta’ and I’ll admit I took this one in a bit of an odd direction, but there is pasta included I promise! You can see all my previous challenges as set by Ask Italian by clicking here! I always was a pasta fan but these challenges have helped…

Time for Tea: Feeling fruity with PG Tips

For the last month or so I have been slowly but surely working my way through the new range of Fruit & Herbal and Green teas from PG tips. Unless you’ve been living under a rock all your life (or perhaps are not in the UK) then you’ll know that PG Tips tea bags are pyramid shaped so less chasing…