Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Memory games are great games for children to play. It improves observational skills and helps to train your brain to use and grow your ability to remember. Cartamundi is the largest global manufacturer and market leader in playing cards and cards for games. They kindly sent us a pack of Visualise Junior for review. It is suitable for 8 years and above for 2 to 6 players.
Are your children bored of the same design on their shoes? Or do you have a child who simply loves to draw? Now Skribbies Shoes enable children to draw and stick stickers on them! They are a new and excellent product founded by young entrepreneur Jennifer Duthie. She was inspired by the fabric paints of the 90s and wanted to develop a product for kids that was more versatile and would allow kids to keep on customising.
Last Thursday, the lovely people from Town Hall & Symphony Hall kindly offered my family tickets to watch Room on the Broom Theatre. We had a fantastic time and I would recommend this show to anyone with children who is over 4 years old. The recommend age is 3+ years old.
As many will know, Pyrex is a good and reliable brand for their kitchenware. Now they have improved a lot on their design and to complement the modern home. Recently, they came out with the Kitchen Lab sets. It was our second Twitter party giveaway. I found out recently that they are stocked in The Range and Dunelm Mill. They come with a shaker and measuring jug.
The lovely people from IWantOneOfThose.com has kindly sent me a Toxic Pop Up Laundry Bag for review. They look extremely cool (and apt) placed in our family bathroom as it will contain the most filthy children’s clothing. IWantOneOfThose.com is a website that sells gadgets, gizmos, a range of gift ideas including gifts for him, for her and even gifts for pets and home & garden products. There are so many different gifts to choose from. Take a look, and see if anything catches your eye!
Earlier this week, I was invited to attend the Official Monopoly Empire UK Unveil at Hamleys. We were the earliest people to arrive as the staff set up the store. While we were waiting to get a peek at the game, Mr K and Ms C were each given an air guitar balloon and colouring to do. We also met up with my friend Anna Marikar. Please read her post here. These are a few photos I took while I was there. I used Wondershare video editor to share this photo video.
Last Sunday, we were fortunate to get invited to watch The Smurf 2 at Odeon together with Anna Marikar (click here to read her post) and Blue Bear Wood. When I was young, I loved watching Smurfs cartoons with my sister and she had a huge collection of Smurfs figurines. Shame that my mother threw them away when we moved house. How I wish I could pass it on to my children as Ms C has fallen in love with the latest Jakks Pacific Smurf-tastic toys!
This Summer has been fabulous for us as a family. We’ve been able to get out and about so much more easily and it puts a whole different complexion on things when it’s been warm and sunny. A by-product of that though is that we’ve been eating so many ice lollies, ice creams and we’ve been using so much ice from our ice maker that it’s been working non-stop. The Chill Factor Slushy Maker now allows us to add ‘slushies’ to that list too.
Last week we were very busy and went to London for a mini break. While we were there, Anna Marikar (click here to read her event) kindly let me know about a Mr Muscle’s children’s cupcake decoration class. We were fortunate that there was a last minute drop out so we were able to attend!
Recently, my sister gave birth to two gorgeous baby boys and I would like to take this chance to make her a baby announcement card. PaperShaker has it all! They have Baby Announcement and Baby Thank You cards, Kids/Adult party invitations and Wedding stationery. In Baby Announcement, there are so many to choose from and after spending 15 minutes looking at them all. I finally narrow them down to a few by filtering by gender, colour and photo etc. This is what the final product looks like:
Recently, you might have seen that I had a revamp of our baby room and turned it into my office. Instead of buying a proper office chair, I bought myself a pink beach chair! Of course, this was temporary as the lack of thicker padding meant it was not comfortable after sometime in it.
Tinker Bell is flying high into the sky! Launch them high up into the sky by using the flower base. The set comes with a beautiful Tinker Bell and flower base. There is no need for batteries or assembly. Tinker Bell’s hair is made from soft rubber and her wings are made of part-foam and part-plastic. We launched her easily 50 times and she still looks perfect.
This Disney Princess Ariel’s Vanity Set lets girls recreate their favourite Little Mermaid moments while in the tub. It includes Ariel bath vanity, lipstick, perfume bottle, cream blush compact and a cream eye shadow pot. Due to the natural of these bath items and my child’s privacy, the toys are played in both on outside and inside the bath tub. These photos are taken before the bath time.
The DGJ Organics range was originally developed by celebrity hairdresser and colourist Daniel Galvin Junior 10 years ago when there were no organic haircare products available. Now they have launched these new products, Argan Oil shampoo and conditioner.
Last Wednesday, I tagged along with Anna Marikar to Beano town at Southbank Centre to visit their Christmas Events. This is where they showcase the Christmas items for this coming December. One of the highlights for me was their latest bike! Doesn’t it look funky! These are the other things that caught my eyes for Christmas and I hope you all like what you see.
