Win your £30 shopping basket: Tesco clothes competition

For all budgeting mums new clothes are a huge treat and the chance to have new clothes myself and give you a chance to do the same has been offered form Tesco clothing (Hurray!) Now (shhh) I have always bought my clothes from Asda because it’s nearer so Tesco clothing was a new concept to [...]

Product review: Piggy Bank from Little Tikes

Little Tikes, Toy Story 3

Following its starring role in the first two Toy Story movies, the classic pink Piggy Bank from Little Tikes is back by popular demand!  With Toy Story 3 taking off in a big way this summer, the famous Piggy Bank is back on the big screen.
 Little Tikes kindly sent me one  to trial.
I have to [...]

Competition winners – How to find more time for busy mums

In order to win life coach Tracey Wall from Empowering Mums fab e book  we asked readers what they would do with a free morning . Here are our winners. Congratualtaions to all!

Jessica says:

July 20, 2010 at 7:50 am • Edit

Looks like a fab resource! And if it can help/empower me to be more organized [...]

Using aromatherapy to relieve stress

Big thanks to aromatherapy expert Justine Di Cesare for this useful guest post
If you are feeling stressed out aromatherapy is really easy to use at home & won’t break the bank.
                                                          
One really quick instant stress reliever is to use an oil burner; the relaxing properties of essential oils are wonderful. Simply add essential oil [...]

Competition winner- Ewan the dream sheep

Ewan the dream sheep

The winner of the Ewan the dream sheep competition was Elizaberh Burton with this entry

I love storytime at bed time. To see her listening so intently and taking it all in is fantastic. After I’ve put her down, she always calls me back a few minutes later. When I ask what she wants she replies [...]

How to get a bit more (mummy me time!)

Helping mummy cook

 Thanks for this guest post go to  to our savvy mum of the month Maggy Woodley (of Red Ted Art  )for some top tips. Her blog is filled with crafty cretaions you can make with your child. Do check ito ut!
 
 I live by the motto that “A happy mum is a better mum”, here are [...]

Get beach ready fast – without spending a fortune

Beach ready hair!

This is a guest post by the very lovely, absolutely beach ready Liz Jarvis As well as blogging at www.kidstart.co.uk/livingwithkids, Liz Jarvis is the former Editor of the health and beauty glossy Shape, Lifestyle Editor of Closer, and writes about lifestyle for various magazines and national newspapers.

I’m a firm believer in Me Time for mums – [...]

Look after your breasts – get a ‘good’ bra

Nursing bra

Thanks to T-J Hughes for this extremely useful guest post
One of the areas of our health and well-being that women often forget about, or take for granted is their breasts. We were born with them. We either love them or hate them. Our fellas love them (haven’t met any that don’t!), and they’re also there [...]

Babysitters on a budget – some advice

Great grandma

Babysitters
It goes without saying its crucial to get yourself a babysitter you absolutely trust. In the early days, a social life without baby can seem to be an impossibility, but it is really important to try and keep a life for you. In my opinion he best babysitters are the ones who do it for [...]

Weigh in – Week 4 (Project 70-0)

Reebok

Well I no longer have 70lb to lose
and 
I no longer have 65lbs to lose
and
I no longer have 63lb to lose
Over the last 2 weeks I have lost 4lbs so now ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I have only 59  to go ….YAY!   
 11bs lost in total  !
I’m working thos Reeboks and still playing a lot of garden footie!