Creativity and Homemade Craft Boxes

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I think a child’s creativity and homemade craft boxes go hand in hand. I am a great believer in developing a child’s imagination rather than spoon feeding them entertainment. Most parents I know feel  exactly the same but it is so easy to see little craft kits to make a peg doll or a pom [...]

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Sunday Inspiration: Rumi

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Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field.  I’ll meet you there.  Photo Credit: Dominic’s pics When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense. From Essential Rumi

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It’s more than okay to holiday in the UK

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I have never been hugely patriotic but with the Olympics and The Diamond Jubilee I feel  it’s definitely a year to celebrate being British. I often advocate that before feeling the need to spend a fortune on adventures you should look on your doorstep. There is indeed a lot to be said for holidaying in [...]

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Win 2 x pair of tickets to the Baby Show Birmingham NEC

*Competition now closed* Do you want to win tickets to the Birmingham NEC, 18th-20th May 2012? The Baby Show offers a shopping haven for new parents and parents-to-be at the NEC Birmingham from 18th-20th Ma2012. , The Baby Show takes out the stress and confusion of shopping for your baby as it has the UK’s biggest baby [...]

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Budgeting and Nursing Bras during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

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By Karen McCully  from BoobieMilk I remember back to when I was pregnant for the first time.  My breasts were the first sign I was pregnant.  They were really tender to the touch and they suddenly grew larger and heavier so that the bras I wore really didn’t fit or support them.  They were most [...]

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Tommorow I’m helping make a Luminarium window and supporting Save the Children

  On Thursday 3rd May a group of E Midlands based bloggers will be creating one of 12 huge windows in EXXOPOLIS the next Luminarium.  Architects of Air’s Luminariums are giant colourful, inflatable sculptures you can walk inside. They are very cool and it’s very exciting! In return for our labours (its really fiddly and [...]

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The most affordable family vehicles for 2012

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Are you looking for the perfect vehicle for your family? Or maybe you are looking to sell your car with Auto Trader and use any money left over to buy a brand new car?  Whether you’re on a tight budget or not, there’s no need to worry. You can find the right type of vehicle [...]

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Profile of a budgeting mum: Jo Coles AKA Devon Mummy

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What’s your name? Jo AKA Devon Mummy Any kids? One daughter, aged 16 months Do you work? Yes, part time from home If so what do you do? I returned from Maternity Leave to my job at a large corporate company but soon realised that I wanted something else from life. I decided to become [...]

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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I love to share with my children stories I have known forever, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory feels like a story I have always known. I have to say I am a little bit unnerved by the story really as pretty gruesome things happen but then that’s Roald Dahl for you! We were so delighted [...]

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Blogging – the essential guide

  When I started blogging I did not have the first clue. Had someone given me the fabulous new book Blogging the essential guide I would have been massively relieved. if you are a new blogger I STRONGLY suggest you get this fab book . Erica and Antonia are successful bloggers and mumpreneurs and really a fountain [...]

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Review: Frankie & Benny’s, Nottingham

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Over the Easter holidays  we went for a family  meal at Frankie and Benny’s for the purpose of reviewing the restautnt (it’s a hard life!)I have been before but not for a long while. It is a New york Italian style diner chain that prides itself on being warm and welcoming. From the moment we [...]

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Sunday inspiration: Look Well to This Day

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 Anonymous, 50 B.C. Look well to this day, For it and it alone is life. In its brief course lie all the essence of your existence: the glory of growth, the satisfaction of achievement the splendour of beauty For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes [...]

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