This September saw the beginning of something huge for us – the official start of our home education journey with the boys! Bit of background to our decision – when the boys were about three months old, I saw a TV show (Loose Women to be precise) where one of …
Don’t you just love it when your husband lets you know last minute that it’s someones birthday tomorrow? Luckily for me (or him I should say!) I have my Cricut Maker to help me whip up something really quickly. Almost everyone loves to get flowers, so I decided to make …
Yay! You’ve decided you want to go to Center Parcs for a family holiday – that’s great! I can highly recommend it. I have been going regularly since 1990, when I was just eleven myself, and this year I got to take my own family there! There’s no doubt at …
You know how most the time you try to make sure that your fake plants and flowers look as natural as possible? No one must know we have faux flowers!! Shhh! Shut the faux up! Here I have for you a free SVG to make your own vinyl decal – …
Yay for Spring! It’s the perfect time to start filling your home with pretty bunches of flowers, and I’ve made a super cute upcycled sauce jar vase using my Cricut Maker, and I’m sharing the SVG file with you! We make a lot of tomato based meals in our house, …
I love using my Cricut Maker to create home decor accessories. Having my Maker means I can whip something up really quick, whenever the mood takes me. Inspiration hit me this weekend when I saw the glass recycling pile, and I decided to make a couple of upcycled coffee jar …
It seems like we’ve been waiting forever for Spring to arrive this year. We’ve had so much rain, and unusually snow, in the UK already this year. Spring is late!! However, it finally seems to have arrived, and my husband said he was waiting for me to say it, when …
I’ve been a renter for nearly twenty years, with a short period of moving back in with my parents when I was in my early twenties. Since 2013 I’ve been a renter with a family. Let me tell you landlords, there’s quite a difference in property needs when you’re a …
If there is one craft I’m determined to learn this year, it’s crochet. Have you seen the unbelievably cute crochet patterns you can get? Why am I not making them already?! Something tells me my efforts won’t turn out exactly as they look in the pictures…but this year, I’m going …
Parents are probably the funniest people around. You just need to check out Twitter to see plenty of evidence of parents quick wit and humour, on an hourly basis! Parents make me laugh, because it’s all so relatable! What I’m loving at the moment is that it’s totally ok to …
