Did you know that you can buy Hama Beads in specific colours? I didn't, so was delighted to receive an orange packet recently. They were perfect for a few Halloween-related Pumpkin crafts. 1. Oil the inside of pumpkin- and leaf-shaped cookie cutters, then add a thick layer of Hama beads. Bake on a lined baking sheet in a hot (180C) oven until beads are fused. 2. To make the ombre pumpkin, I used white, yellow and orange Hama beads … [Read more...]
Breastcancer Awareness Bake: Millionairess Shortbread
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So it seems serendipitous that I saw this recipe for M&M Bark only the day after I bought several tubes of pink smarties last week. The two events collided in my sleep-addled brain one night when I needed a treat to make for a bake sale and this delicious NO BAKE Millionairess Shortbread is the result. Why Millionairess? Because 'tis pink, of course. It's a take on the classic Millionaire's … [Read more...]
Pampers and Unicef working together to stop MNT
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...]
How to make 2 ingredient breadsticks
Last week Dimples and I didn't feel like leaving the house, and spent the morning in front of CBeebies and learning about numbers and letters and screaming from the rooftops when Show Me, Show Me! started. So when I looked at the clock and Dimples demanded to pizza for lunch I had a momentary panic until I remembered seeing a post about 2-ingredient Pizza Dough, undoubtedly on Pinterest. I obviously didn't pin it, so just Googled the term and can … [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...]
