One of the things I remember with new babies was how the majority of the little clothes that they were bought were either gender-specific pretty pink ...
Make your House your Home
"A house is made with walls and beams,
A home is made with love and dreams"
Create the home you want with love and your dreams, discover green fingers no matter how big or small your open space is and make your little differences to support the planet one small change at a time.
Karcher FC5 Hard Floor Cleaner
One of my least favourite jobs in the house is mopping the floors. Partly because it's like the laundry never ending and the other because it's almost ...
How to dry Whole Oranges for Christmas Decorations
For the last few years, we have used dried citrus fruit slices in Christmas decorations around the house as well as apple slices. They have made ...
Top Tips for Choosing Your Family’s Real Christmas Tree
For the past 10 years, my husband and I have had a real Christmas Tree at home - we've had some interesting experiences like the time we cut off a ...
DIY Autumn Wood Block Home Decor
Although it maybe August, I'm already thinking about the autumn. As we move from working in our garden to indoor projects, I want to continue my theme ...
Homemaking with Technology
So our house we have 2 kids, a dog, my husband and myself and we are living on a building site. It's dusty, there are bits of cut up paper everywhere ...
5 Top Reasons you Should be Line Drying your Clothes
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and for the last 7 months, my washing has been in the tumble drier or on an airer in the house. No, I ...
The Gift of Time with Philips PerfectCare Elite Iron
Please tell me I am not alone with my hatred for one chore in the house - the IRONING. I am so bad that for years I didn't do it unless it was ...
Custom Loaf Bread Maker
10 years ago when I got engaged we were asked what we wanted as an engagement gift by my parents and my first request was a bread maker. I love the ...
Toilet Bombs – Natural Freshness for your Bathrooms
In our bid to get rid of the nasties from our home, we're switching over chemical's for more natural products and last week I ran out of the rim block ...
DIY Washing Powder Recipe for the UK
In our bid to reduce the number of chemicals that we use in the home one of the first things, I switched over to a natural recipe that I make myself ...
5 Natural Remedies for Chicken Pox
For the last 2 and a half weeks I've been stuck on the sofa - sounds good doesn't it a break for me but no it's been whilst I've had two kids with ...
5 Simple Changes to start a detox of your home
Last month I am guessing you likely had a detox of some sort at the start of the new year - whether it was just a shift to eat healthier once again ...
5 Things In My Fridge I Can’t Live Without
What do you have in your fridge that is essentials you just can't live without? I mean apart from like Milk and if you keep Bread in the fridge Bread. ...
Better over time – investing in making memories
Sometimes you get a little extra money and yes I know I could put it away for the future but as a family with young kids and with no older siblings ...
Banish grey with Vanish Gold for Whites
There is something that I've always coveted in home magazines and that's lovely fresh white bed sheets and when visiting hotels it's something that ...
Laundry Life Hacks for Busy Mums – a daily load
It's never ending is it the Laundry, just as soon as you think you have seen the bottom of the basket the kids arrive home from school, the husband ...
Stylish Family Space – Blinds that work with kids
Moving into this house - we were greeted with a horrid dinning room - it had orange carpet, stripes at the bottom of the wall a flowered border and ...
Be an Energy Shopper – #powertoswitch
I am sure that like us, many of you reading this are trying to save money. Whether for something special like a car, holiday or to move house, cutting ...
Whiter whites – Vanish Bloggers Challenge
Here's something that you probably don't know about me: I don't own white clothes. It's not because I don't like white, but because I don't like what ...
Making small spaces work – fitted furniture
Seven years ago we brought a house that was perfect for our family. We had a study where I could plan my lessons and mark books out of the way of our ...
