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The Queen is visiting Bromley tomorrow. The High Street is decked with bunting and the shop windows are suitably bestowed in Red, White and Blue. Our Road will be closed from around 8am so the fact that we have no car plays little part in whether or not LBG will make it to Kindergarten. As we have been at home due to the changeable (read ‘wet’) British Weather, The Girls and I thought that our house ought to carry some decoration, in case The Queen should come for tea. So we made Jubilee Bunting.
I lucked out recently when I picked up Union Jack napkins for about 60p. The first set of bunting couldn’t be simpler:
(yes, that is icicle tape left up at the top edge of the window from Christmas. It hides above the blinds so I never remember to take it down.)
I folded them in half diagonally and stapled to some red crepe paper streamer I have (I bought a whole batch in different colours from a charity shop.) It looks lovely in our sitting room window.
A while ago The Girls had a fun afternoon painting with marbles. We used red, white and blue paint on a red background, and I just knew that the finished art would be perfect for a Jubilee or Olympic Project at some point this year. In fact LBG got in some great cutting practice when I got her to turn the art into small triangles.
Once we had condensed all the pages into teeny tiny triangles, I found her a glue stick. Firstly we glued the rear of the triangles and stuck them to a length of red crepe paper, being careful to stick them only as far as the mid-way point. Once I we were happy with the arrangement, then we added glue to the top of each triangle and folded down the crepe paper onto each triangle, creating beautiful and easy marble painting bunting.
This now graces our banister and gets lit up at night by the fairy lights that I put up for LBG birthday last year and have yet to take down.
After the events of Saturday rendered us car-less we had to rethink our plans for the Bank Holiday weekend. After consultation with LBG, we elected to go swimming en famille on Sunday. First hurdle- local swimming baths (do people still call them that?) were closed so we rode the bus to Beckenham where- wouldn’t you know it- the queues were twice as long because of the aforementioned closure. So we missed the baby pool slot and had to go in the big pool. Which had Dimples begging to go home only seconds after she’d got in. I was with her- the unisex change rooms had already freaked me out. But LBG loved every second. By the time we got to the restaurant DH had booked for lunch she could barely keep her eyes open. Nor could Dimples. Instead DH and I ate with the speed-of-a-puma and got home as soon as we could.
Project 366 Week Nineteen, Sunday: the dressing up box is the perfect place for a snack-break
It’s not a pet. Or a bowl. But it is a shop. An online shop selling, amongst other things, bowls for your pet. Petshopbowl.co.ukgot in touch with Wonder Hound, via me of course, to ask if we’d care to review their delivery services. Bearing in mind that the Wonder Hound is the under dog in this household, and it’s been a trying few weeks for her, having to cope with all the build work- the men, the lack of easy garden access, the doorbell going all the time- it seemed only fair that I accepted on her behalf.
Future Friendly from P&G is all about the little actions we can take today,
that will lead to a brighter tomorrow.
We were challenged by P&G to join the greenvolution by making a few small changes in our home that, when added together, can make a big difference to the planet. Because being ‘Green’ doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming.
My mum used to make these for me when I was a child. I’m certain it’s because it’s the only way she could get courgettes/zucchini into us. There’s nothing worse than a boiled courgette. But fried? Yes sirree, that’s the way to go. Continue reading Zucchini Fritters
I had planned to attend BritMums Live 2012. I bought a ticket. I got really excited.
DH booked us a holiday. He got really excited.
His expenditure trumps mine by some margin.
So I have a BritMums ticket to give away.
All you have to do is tell me how far you would go to get the ticket…would you serenade me in public? Would you beg mercilessly? Would you text me every day? The sillier, the more outlandish, the crazier the better*. Add your comment, with contact details, below.
For an extra entry then tweet and leave a separate comment to tell me you have done so:
“I’m so desperate to #win a #BritMumsLive ticket, I’ve entered the competition with @domesticgoddesq: http://domesticgoddesque.com/2012/05/win-a-britmums-ticket/”
*this is purely for my own amusement and has no bearing on the outcome of the random selection process.
This giveaway applies to UK residents only, over the age of 18. It does not cover travel or accommodation costs. The draw will be made using a random number generator after the competition closes at midnight on 21st May 2012. The winner will be notified by email or twitter, so please leave contact details when entering. If no reply has been received after three days, the winner will be redrawn.
I’m going to be spending Saturday without children. In London. With a whole bunch of people that I’ve never met before. I was hoping to float in under the radar, sit on the sidelines and vanish. Turns out I picked the wrong conference. Whilst Blogcamp London- which I went to last year- was wonderfully comforting with it’s cake and converse, it would appear that Cybher is going all-out in the fashion stakes. And I do not go all-out in the fashion stakes. Ooops.
Anyway, for those of you who are also attending what may be the Chic-est Blogger Event Ever, here are some pointers, should you wish to avoid me.
Name : Kelly Innes, better known as Domestic Goddesque
I’m Kelly, the face behind the vintage silhouette. She has a much better figure than me: I eat too much cookie dough. I’m a thirty-something Mother, Blogger and Girl Friday, married to my beloved DH.
Domestic Goddesque shares ideas for simple recipes, house-keeping and crafts for every age, along with a few shortcuts so that you can appear to be the Domestic Goddess you want to be.
