Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
The Fearsome World of Dinosaurs is a fabulous paperscapes book that opens your world to these awesome press-out die-cut pages which reveal a parade of prehistoric predators! This strikingly illustrated hardback book by Pat Jacobs will be out on 7 February 2019. You can pre-order this book from Carlton Books and get it sent to you directly when it releases!
The Benefits Of Creating A Garden Office
One of the challenges of working at home is maintaining an adequate level of motivation. This is particularly true if you don’t have a dedicated space where you can work. Trying to stay on track with your job when you are working out of the corner of your dining room or stuck in a tiny spare room can be difficult. One innovative way to give yourself more space is by creating a garden office. These innovative offices provide a number of benefits including the following:
Home improvements are something that we all look to do at different times and can be varied in how much stress they cause. From top to bottom updating the home should be started with clear goals in mind and with a purpose for the rooms you are working on. With that in mind, we are going to take a look at the main rooms that feature in the majority of homes and some of the change that you might consider. Remember, the aim here is to provide you with some sort of idea to enhance your decorating goals.
This new year, if you are after the increasingly popular industrial-style theme, then look no further! The iconic housewares specialist Wesco has recently launched this exciting new collection “Loft” that give kitchen and bathroom accessories a matt-powder-coating finish to give a modern, edgy look.
Clean lines, simple forms and stark contrasts are a must for this minimalist look. The collection’s colour palette of black, white, cool grey and graphite captures this perfectly and add an industrial sharpness.
Time has passed so quickly and now we are welcoming 2019! This will be a very challenging year ahead as we are buying a new house soon and Mr K will be going to ‘big’ school in September. The year before, we made a big decision to sell our ‘forever home’ to move closer to Mr K’s big school as we wanted the best school for him. It was not an easy decision as it involved tying ourselves to a bigger/longer mortgage and moving away from our nearby friends.
A new year, a new start to this 2019. I am not talking about starting a new relationship but building a new relationship to love your home again. These days, we tend to lead a busy lifestyle juggling and getting the right balance between family and work. This means we tend to overlook the home we live in and there’s always a bit of wear and tear. We don’t realize it until we take a good hard look at our surroundings, especially after a good Christmas break. So here are a few ways of improving your home with accent features.
These days we understand that there’s much more to being healthy than how much we weigh and to help us to get on track and more detailed health statistics, the eufy BodySense Smart Scale is the way to go. I know that smart scales with Bluetooth are not a new thing in the market, but what I love about this scale is how affordable it is and how smart it looks!
How fresh would you consider your house to be right now? It’s just before the right time for spring cleaning, and you’re probably still cleaning up debris from a party or two, and the space is starting to feel a little stale. When you look out of your windows, whether in your living room or your bedroom, what do you notice? Maybe the glass is a little dusty. Maybe the panes are a bit cracked and discoloured – well, now’s the perfect time to do something about them!
Winter can be pretty too, and having some cool, crisp, and fresh air blowing in and out of your house can be a wonderful remedy for any blues you’re still feeling! So here’s a couple of tips on your can freshen up your window scene, and make your home feel bigger and brighter as a result.
Keeping your house secure is an important topic to address, not just because burglaries can happen to anyone, it also helps to keep yourself and your family safe. To prevent break-ins, it is vital for people to spend a bit of their time to learn how to protect their homes and be aware of their neighbourhood.
These days anyone who has access to the internet can easily search for any personal information, such as how your house looks on Google Map, your Facebook account for your personal photos, LinkedIn for your work experience etc. As technology advances, at the same time, we open up our world for everyone to access. In the same way that you don’t want to be a victim, of course, you won’t want any people to break into your house too.
Yesterday, we were invited to watch an exclusive musical show – Emily Brown and the Thing at the Birmingham Hippodrome’s Patrick Studio. This musical show is based on the much-loved book by Cressida Cowell (author of How to Train your Dragon) and Neal Layton. This delightful family-friendly show is brought to you by Tall Stories theatre company and is the perfect treat for all the family until the 6th January 2019! Catch the show here during this festive season before it transfers to New York and embarks on a North American tour in 2019.
Last week, it was our last Lichfield Mandarin Club lesson of the year and it was my turn again to take the class on crafts. Besides doing crafts, I also incorporated learning to read and write Chinese characters in the lesson. Last year, we had to cancel the lesson due to heavy snow and I decided to re-use the lesson plan that I had in mind.
Ask any seasoned parent and they will tell you that having kids can be incredibly expensive. Let’s look at the winter season as a starting point. During that time of year, we have to cope with Christmas where kids expect Santa to bring all the presents they asked for down the chimney. Now there are a variety of ways to deal with an issue of a tight budget in this case. But if you don’t want to let the little ones down, you’ll need to do your best to make sure the jolly old elf delivers.
Then, there’s the problem of all the items they need for school. Depending on the particular school that your child goes too, this can actually end up adding up to quite a large sum that you’ll need to cover somehow. It’s often best to hit the summer sales when you’re trying to get everything for the start of the new summer season. But even with prices slashed it can still be rather tricky to keep those costs under control.
Winter is upon us, and it’s officially the season of staying in and snuggling up. As temperatures continue to tumble, it’s crucial to make sure that your home is ready. Here are some wonderful ways you can turn your home into a heavenly, cosy haven this winter.
Sometimes a home and garden can need a little pick me up. We don’t realize it until we take a good hard look at our surroundings. A busy lifestyle means we tend to neglect to look after the home and when you’ve lived in your home for a few years, there always tends to be a bit of wear and tear. So here are a few ways of improving your home and garden.
This Christmas, I would like to introduce you to this ultimate gift for car enthusiasts and budding petrol heads! You get to build cool working engines featuring real engine roars with the authentic Haynes Build Your Own Engine sets. The models are the ultimate gifts for dads and petrol heads – ideal for the man who has it all.
