A couple of days ago it dawned on me how easy it would be to make my own Christmas Door Wreath. We normally buy a wreath from our local farm shop, but we just haven’t had the time this year to visit the shop to buy our wreath. A friend was over and we just …
Children all across the country are now learning coding at school. Botley The Coding Robot is an all new, super fun coding robot for children from the clever folks at Learning Resources. What makes Botley unique is that your child doesn’t need any screen time to play with Botley! Coding… no screens? Well, I never! …
I have loved Yankee Candles for a few years now, and while we live a very frugal life, I honestly cannot resist treating myself to a gorgeous smelling Yankee Candle each Christmas. The lovely guys at WOW FreeStuff have a great competition for you all to win a lovely Christmas Yankee Candle Christmas Set. Christmas …
Today we took a very special trip to our local(ish) Wyevale Garden Center to meet Santa in his grotto. We visit Wyevale Garden Centers a lot, so when we told the kids that we were taking them to meet someone special, they looked a little underwhelmed when we arrived at mummy’s favourite shop. That was …
Today (14/11/18) the Top 12 Toys This Christmas was announced at DreamToys. The DreamToys list is the most authoritative independent prediction of toys that will be the most sought after this Christmas in the UK. Selected by a representative panel of retailers and industry experts, these are the toys that your kids will be asking …
Christmas dinner is one of the most costly parts of your festive celebrations. Between buying the perfect turkey or other meat, the vegetables, side dishes, desserts AND drinks… it can become a little bit too expensive for some of us to handle. Over the years I have managed to bring the price of our Christmas …
Christmas is often an expensive time of year, and even more so if you have children. But your child won’t care how much you spend on them at Christmas, because money does not matter to them. Why spend big, when they can have just as much fun, for less? I take a look at some …
