Christmas breakfasts

Yay it's Monday (said no one ever) haha

Today we having our first Christmas themed breakfast - Ella the Elf has left Honey Christmas themed cookie cutters to make lovely shaped toast!! 

So we thought we would share some of our favourite breakfast ideas 

Yum yum yum - Honey and Sienna will love these!! How fabulous to have a magic breakfast!! 

Have a very merry breakfast 

All our love 

Jade and Leeanne 

Xxx 

Bonfire night fun

Yay its officially Bonfire night here in the UK!

We have bonfire night to commemorate the day Guy Fawkes was arrested for plotting to blow up the House of Lords in 1605.

Fast forward to 2013 and  it now means we have bonfires and fireworks and yummy treats and all that jazz!

So i thought i would share some fun bonfire night treats and activities you can do with your little people!

These fireworks are made from cardboard tubes and bits of paper, pipe cleaners and tissue paper. Anything you have in your craft box! Fun craft activity.

These yummy firework biscuits look super fun, and if I'm honest look like my children's standard decorating of biscuits haha recipe here

Another fun little craft activity using handprints!

Edible Sparklers these look fab we will deffo be making some! Tutorial here 

These should keep your toddler out of mischief for at least 5 mins.

I hope you all have a fun and safe bonfire night! Wrap up warm its super cold!!

Halloween Treats

So birthday season has come and gone here (until New years day when my bestest boy Tate is 2) and the next exciting event on the horizon is Halloween!!

I love Halloween its so much fun. I wish the UK would adopt the american spirit when it comes to halloween and all the streets were lined with little people in their fancy dress collecting sweets and all the houses were decorated outside like we do for christmas!

We like to make halloween lots of fun for the children and make them a halloween goody bag!

Its nothing major just filled with lots of little spooky treats and the children love them!

So here's some of my fave Halloween treats to fill your treat bags!

Personalised halloween trick or treat bag £8

Halloween treat pot kits £2.20 for 2

Trick or Treat party bag badges £3.50 for 5

Spooky Glowing wristband £1

Halloween goodies from Paperchic starting from 50p

I would also add a few halloween sweeties! If you pick up bits and bobs whilst your out and about shopping over the next few weeks then its not such a burden just before the day! The kids will love them and its nice to make a fuss over every holiday occassion!

I will leave you with this Amazing video from you tube of a house decorated for halloween! Its fantastic!!!

Love 

L xx

Snow fun preparation

You have probably heard the weather reports about snow landing as early as october his year!! I have one word for this news....

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

I love love love snow its the best! It makes everything look magical and beautiful and you can still get to the shops people just drive slower or take a sledge!!

If theres one thing i have learnt about when the magic of snow arrives its that any sort of snow fun supplies vanish from the shops! Waterproof clothing and sledges all sell out faster than a Take That reunion with Robbie Williams concert ticket!

So upon hearing the impending snow news i thought i better get the kids waterproofs in before there's nothing left in their size! That way when the snow does arrive we are all ready to go out an enjoy and are not having to dash around the shops trying to find something!

Last year i got Sienna's coat from Jo Jo Maman Bebe 

It was fab and warm and cosy but this year i wanted to get something that comes with matching waterproof bottoms.

Whist searching i found that H&M do a huge selection at really reasonable prices!

This wind and waterproof padded jacket is £29.99 and matching salopettes £19.99 and the cute ski gloves are just £5.99 and matching hat £2.99

They come in loads of different colours too. They also have lots of nice fleece jackets and other essentials for snow fun days! H&M is my top tip for snowy day clothing!

Now for sledges i love the old fashioned wooden ones as they look lovely but in reality they aren't all that practical. I don't think they are very safe for little ones to sit on. I think the ones where they are properly sat down and low to the ground seem safer. 

This Sledge by Snowboogie looks brilliant for smaller toddlers! 

Amazon £11.69

This also looks fab if you have babies that want to come and join in the sledging fun!

Amazon £23.50

We just have a standard basic sledge similar to this one which always does the job and provides lots of fun!

Amazon £9.89

I'm would 100% recommend getting the kids stuff ready before the snow arrives because it really is no fun trying to find stuff when the time arrives as all the nice stuff has gone or you end up paying over the odds for whats left! 

Bring on the snow! I cant wait!!

Love 

L xx

Room on The Broom Live!

Happy Monday lovely people!

We have had a fabulous weekend, filled with theatre trips, takeaway, sleep overs, and a fabulous 4th and 2nd birthday party on Sunday for Honey and Rocco. We hope you all have had a fab weekend too.

On Saturday we went to watch 'Room on the Broom Live' at G live Guilford Just us mummy's and our girls.

The girls love the book by Julia Donaldson, but we weren't too sure what to expect from the production having never been to one of these kind of shows before. It was brilliant!! 

The girls loved it and we did too. Before the show started the shows main characters all came out onto the stage and into the audience playing hide and seek and chatting, it was really engaging. The the show started and the characters were camping with some amusing loud snoring waking everyone up and then someone asking 'what's that up there in the sky' and thats how the story as we know it started.

There were 4 people playing all the characters in the story. The dog, bird and frog were puppets and i have to take my hat off to the puppeteers as they have a true talent. The whole production was comical, exciting and held the girls attention throughout! We all had a fab time.

We would thoroughly recommend the show to anyone for a fun trip out to the theatre for all the family. You can find more into on the show at www.roomonthebroomlive.co.uk

Have a brilliant Monday 

Love

L & J

xx

Rain Rain go away!

Brrrrr how cold is it already? Im pretty sure last week the sun was shining and we were enjoying playing outside and now its raining and all chilly! Well i guess it really is hello there Autumn.

I have to be honest i dread the cold and rainy winters. Theres so much super fun stuff that goes on in winter don't get me wrong but just normal day to day life in the bad weather when your a stay at home mum is hard work! Everyone gets cabin fever and you don't realise till the sunshine comes back just how happier it makes everyones moods.

I've decided i'm going to try my hardest this Autumn/Winter not to let us all get fed up! So i am planning lots of fun activities for us all to do and if its raining and my kids want to go to the park, we will go to the park and we will get wet and we will jump in puddles and get covered in mud and we will make happy fun memories to treasure!

Its a rainy September day here and i have a very bored Sienna so first up on our Autumn activity list is Cloud Dough!

Its really easy to make and you probably already have the stuff in its just 8 cups of flour to 1 cup of baby oil!

I used one of the drawers from the Ikea toy storage to mix it in but you could use a baking tray too? Something with a nice flat area for them to be able to play with it would be ideal!

So i added my 8 cups of flour...

Then i added in 1 cup of baby oil

Then mix it all together. You might need to use your hands towards the end.

Ta Daaa! Cloud Dough, its a bit like crumble mix in texture but don't be tempted to eat it.

Now to see what Sienna thinks...

She loved it!! 

I gave her a few of her play dough toys to use with it and she's been happily playing with this for the past hour! Its so quick and easy and something a bit different then play dough for them to experience. The tub was perfect as the higher sides stopped her from getting it all over for the mums who aren't fond of mess! I will deffo be making this again and again!

Let us know if you try it!

Love 

L xx

DIY Fairy doors

Well i'm back again with another Fairy related post! This time its fairy doors! They are super cute and add a bit of magic to your little ones bedroom!

www.notonthehighstreet.com

Now to be honest i have found the fairy door to be somewhat of a life saver. Say what you like about 'bribery' as a parenting skill but in my house its under rule number 17 of 'how to survive everyday life with your toddler without loosing your mind' book (please note this book doesn't really exist so please don't check amazon as i have already looked high and low).

I put Sienna to bed at night and tell her if she doesn't go straight to sleep the fairies are going to come through the door to check on her and if she's not asleep they will go and tell santa and she wont get any christmas presents. This works a treat as she definitely doesn't want to be without presents and she goes straight to sleep!

It also works as an alternative reward chart.

If Sienna is a good girl or she doesn't exhibit any unacceptable behaviour (like hitting her brother) the Fairies will bring her a special treat over night. This is usually a chocolate coin or something similar and she is so happy to have had a treat from the fairies it really encourages her to continue with her good behaviour. I find it works best if you work on one issue at once!

So here is Siennas Fairy door its fixed to the wall resting on her skirting board in her bedroom.

This is actually really easy to make! Even if you're not very crafty you could easily make this. The actual door and frame are from a dolls house. So if you search on google or go to hobbycraft you will find a whole array of different dolls house doors that are unpainted so you can customise them as you like. I also bought a door knock and a door handle for Sienna's. All i did was paint the door and the frame in my choice of colour and then i spray painted the door knock and handle silver as it was brass and i preferred silver but you can do any colour you like. I then added Siennas name with some letter stickers i picked up in hobby craft and also added her age at the time as the door number. Then i just stuck it to the wall with my glue gun! 

Its so simple to do and it really looks so sweet in their room! 

Let us know if you plan to make a fairy door too or if you already have one!

Love 

L xx