Do you ‘Pin’? Find us on Pinterest…
We’ve collated an archive of our top Spotted! items over on Pinterest, which is such a great way to mosey around the eclectic stuff we come across and ‘spot’ for you. Next up is the Books board – all the books we’ve talked about on one quick-to-browse shelf of loveliness. New to Pinterest? Fret not! The lovely Domestic Goddesque has just written a Beginners Guide to Pinterest, which is fantabulous and...
The Bestest Christmas Gift Guide… here we go!
So – December approaches, the advent calendars are out of the loft (you HAVE got yours out already, yes?) and there’s no more escaping it. Christmas Shopping looms. Sometimes you know just what to get – but often you don’t. Sometimes you just want a small something extra, a little something different, quirky, unique – and that’s where we come in. For the next four weeks we’ll be firing off...
Make Sure you’re not about to miss the Good Stuff…
We have SO MUCH exciting stuff going on over the next few weeks. Tomorrow we’re kick starting with a brilliant ’12 Days Of Christmas’ Giveaway over on Facebook, sponsored by the Early Learning Centre. That’s a brand new prize, every day for the next 12 days, each one guaranteed to arrive before Christmas for you to wrap and pop under the tree. And on the 1st of December we’re starting our truly incredible...
The Dress and The Shoes
THIS is my dress. I’ll just pause there for you to admire. Gorgeous, isn’t it? When Long Tall Sally offered to clothe me for the awards, I was SO thrilled – I am the first to admit I’m a hideously awkward shape, and certainly no fashionista – so I left the choices up to them, and just hoped for the best. I was pretty confidant – I love their clothes, after all, and it is the one place that my...
“Best Working Mum Blog 2011” WE won! WewonwewonweWON! #gurgles2011
We had the route carefully planned – Salisbury to Waterloo, Northern Line, 4 stops to Tottenham court road, walk to the Soho Hotel. Except the Northern Line won’t be stopping at TCR till November. *sigh* So we had to change course to Oxford Circus, and walk down Oxford Street instead. My feet didn’t like me very much for that. We arrived, we found the room, were greeted royally by the very lovely...
We’re in the papers! #gurgles2011
As you know (or you should – where have you BEEN?) we’re finalists in this years prestigious Gurgle awards, in the ‘Best Working Mummy Blog’ category. The funny thing is out of the thousands of nominations, and the judges chose their favourite five finalists – and two of us come from the same teeny tiny town in deepest darkest Dorset! How bonkers is THAT? Odder still is the fact that...