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 ...
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.
Grow a Garden Salad
We are loving our Garden Week for Storybook Summer this year so many fantastic ideas and today is no different, we have a guide on Growing Salad with ...
Fast Growing Seeds for Flowers and Vegetables to Grow with Kids
With the last frost due later this month, it's time to get the gardening season off to a start with the kids. We have a brand new garden and as we ...
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 ...
Gift ideas for Kids with Green Fingers
One of the best ways to encourage kids to eat their vegetables and try new food is for them to grow it themselves and then cooking and baking with ...
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 ...
Whimsical Beaded Garden Ornaments
It is almost impossible to walk through a garden and not feel joyful. From the colourful flowers dancing on the breeze to the delightful ...
DIY Flag Garden Markers
I love watching kids in the garden. They get so excited by the whole process -- digging in the dirt (of course!), planting seeds, investigating them ...
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 ...
Roald Dahl Inspired Decorated Minpins Pots
This week on storybook summer we're heading off to the woodland for a week of activities, crafts and fun all around books based in the woods and ...
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 ...
