If you are parents you will know how precious each life under your roof is. You will also know how many nappies you get through daily. So it may come as no surprise that UNICEF and Pampers are uniting, as they have every year since 2006, to highlight the threat that Maternal Newborn Tetanus (MNT) still presents across vast swathes of the globe. Maternal Newborn Tetanus is caused by the spores carried in the soil in the less … [Read more...]
366 Week 41
Puffy Paint Cactus
As we are trekking through Mexico on the Around the World in 12 Dishes adventure, I recently took a leaf out of the incredibly talented Creative Jewish Mom's book, and taught Dimples a little 'science' whilst we made puffy paint. Dimples is all about the mixing, having spent the last two terms at cooking class, so I pretty much left her to her own devices after 'helping' with the measuring. Once mixed, I decanted the paint into some icing … [Read more...]
Five tips for buying your School Run Coat
There are things that I am beginning to find essential in a coat now that I spent about half of my week on the school run. Never mind the latest fashion, if I am standing out in all weathers (which, lets face it, mostly means 'wind' and 'rain' and often 'both together' in the UK) then I want to be warm and dry and Vogue can go and hang itself. I'll give you a minute to recover from the very idea that I even know how to spell Vogue, never mind … [Read more...]
Hama time: crafting with melting beads
If you heard a scream last week, it was me, opening a package filled with Hama Beads from Play Merrily. When The Girls came running to see what was wrong, they screamed too, and were frustrated that our week was such that we didn't get the chance to break open the boxes until the weekend. But when we did we had such #hamatime fun. Never having come across them before, I have rather fallen in love. And The Girls have too. It's one of those … [Read more...]
Painted Pine Cone Door Hanging
That crafty Red Ted Art set a challenge recently to get crafting with nature. Obviously I pointed to the fabulous Autumn Nature Wreath that Dimples and I made, but she demanded that I do better. So I did. Dimples and I had cause to stay inside one day. Rain- bleurgh. But I had some fabulous new metallic acrylic paints that I was eager to use and a bowl of pinecones we had garnered weeks earlier when out and about. So we painted them. … [Read more...]
#ONEMums in Ethiopia
Overwhelming Never-ending Exhausting Maddening Unexpected: expect it. Mindboggling Simply lifechanging. Want to know what I'm on about? Lend your voice … [Read more...]
