How to Decorate a Baby’s Room on a Budget

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With baby boutiques springing up left, right and centre, and many homewear stores expanding their nursery décor sections, it’s hard not to be bombarded with beautiful ideas for your new baby’s first bedroom. With sneak peaks into the nurseries of Hollywood A-listers courtesy of gossip mags, and a growing number of home décor publications hitting [...]

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Preparing your bathroom for a new baby

Getting your home ready for a new baby is such a lovely thing to do. Preparing  a nursery is an exciting time and I remember painting ours a few weeks before I was due and just grinning all day. We went for white and pale blue and kept the room very simple with just a [...]

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New Trash Pack Toys & Products

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Oh the excitement in our house when a big box of brand new trash pack toys arrived! Do you want to see what new products are on the shelves. Frankie has  long loved trashpacks toys and was delighted to receive these and what a wonderful collection ! From John Adams there was a science game [...]

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High Fashion on a Budget

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I love clothes. In my younger days I used to really like wearing slightly quirky things and really loved jewelery, funky shoes, short shorts! and little dresses. I always hoped that when I grew up I would be able to buy some really cool classy designer clothes and have a rather fabulous wardrobe. This stunning [...]

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Maternity Clothes on a Budget

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Oh maternity clothes I have had such a love / hate relationship with you. Love because you can look so cute and you dressed my bumps and hate because some of you I seemed to wear endlessly! I had to go to a wedding when I was pregnant and it seemed such a terrible waste [...]

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The benefits of laminate flooring

I have a real mix of flooring in my house, picked for all different reasons  and I love each type for various reasons. In the bedrooms we have soft carpet, perfect for my little kids toes to keep them warm and to feel soft underfoot. It’s in a brown speckled effect that hides marks like [...]

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Bloggers Having A #MadDayOut at Legoland!

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We were invited to Legoland Windsor this weekend for being finalists in the Mad Blog Awards in the thrifty category. We went down the night before and stayed in an adventure room in the awesome Legoland hotel. It was beyond fab, the pool was wild and Lego pirate themed… it was a riot! The kids [...]

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Review: Casabu

Casabu is a fabulous flash sales site who do great deals of 40 to 90%  off for mums, babies and kids on all sorts of items. Sales last for  72 hours. They also have a Price Promise that guarantees that they offer  members the best prices on the internet. They sell a lovely range of [...]

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Review: Just Eat

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When we were invited to try Just Eat earlier this month I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic. I thought it would just list a few local takeaways and charge us to order from them. I had totally the wrong idea! Just Eat is actually rather fab. if you haven’t been on the website let me tell you [...]

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Fundraising for Grown-Ups

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Guest post Do you remember raising sponsorship money when you were at school? Walking door to door, asking neighbours and your parents’ friends to sponsor you for walking so many laps round the field, or doing so many bounces on a trampoline or whatever? Well, that was a kind of fundraising and between you and [...]

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Infographic: Modern Britain’s Archetypal Dads. Which One is Yours?

My dad was a joker which one is yours?  Source: Best Western      

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Why caravans are a great investment for a family

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I have a lovely memory of going to Ingoldmells near Skegness with my granny and grandad, mum  aunt and sister when I was about 8. We stayed in a caravan and grandad got lost late at night on his way back form the toilets and we had to go searching for him in our nighties. [...]

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