Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Earlier in January, LEGO Friends launched 14 fun sets for LEGO fans and we are reviewing this Heartlake Cupcake Café! My daughter loves the LEGO Friends range as their colours are very attractive and has plenty of pink! This new range features a host of fun sets to enable you to create new stories around the popular five best friends as they live and play together.
Home You Go is a classic game and now Rocket Toys and Games have given the board game a new facelift to a more modern look but the game strategy stays the same.
This is a simple and fun family game to be played with two or four players. It is suitable for ages six onwards. To win the game, you have to be the first player to get all 5 playing pieces over to the opposite side of the board!
Last year, Drumond Park launched this brand new Gee Whizz which is jam packed with fascinating, easily accessible and confidence-giving introduction to magical tricks and activities. This set is for aged five onwards and definitely inspires the little minds with the potential to becoming a trickster.
Do you find that you constantly have to delete photos or forget to back up your files? Being a full time blogger and with two young children, I’m always taking photos and videos and my SD cards are always running out of memory!
Research by WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company, reveals that over half (56%) of UK consumers have been forced to delete content from a technology device, due to capacity issues, and then have regretted doing so. Post Deletion Stress Disorder (PDSD) – which refers to consumers that delete content on impulse to make room for more pictures, videos and selfies – is only set to continue as consumer’s digital consumption habits start to exceed device storage capabilities. I often regret deleting it or regret not taking enough photos because of the lack of storage!
The research study, which was conducted with 1,000 UK consumers found that 7% are running out of storage on their mobile daily, 16% are reaching ‘full memory’ at least weekly and 1 in 3 (31%) run out of storage capacity at least monthly.
Photographs were found to take up the most storage capacity across a range of consumer devices, (29% within smartphones), while 44% admit they ‘don’t know’ what content is taking up storage capacity on their devices.
Over two fifths (44%) of those involved in the survey admitted to trying to manage on just 64GB of device storage. And despite 31% saying their device reaches full capacity at some point only a third (33%) of those with personal storage/back up technology, have invested in an external hard drive, connected via a cable. What’s more just 2% of those surveyed are using a paid cloud storage solution, and less than a fifth (16%) are taking advantage of a free cloud storage service.
Star Monsters pocket friends has recently launched their first series with 72 characters to collect. These triangular stars are quirky, funny characters, unlike anything that you have ever seen. There are so many Star Monsters to meet: Essential, Evolved, Rare, Ultra Rare and many more.
Recently, I came across this men’s fashion range of Birthday Gifts Ideas’ vintage clothing which is great if you need to buy a gift to mark a special birthday! Birthday Gifts Ideas have this range of vintage t-shirts that are made from 100% pre-shrunk soft cotton with short sleeve and crew neck t-shirts. They are available in four different sizes: Small (34-36″), Medium (38-40″), Large (42-44″), XL (46-48″), XXL (50-52″). Mr C is generally a medium size and this t-shirt size is true to his size.
We have received six different designs of t-shirts and they have a good quality professional silk screen printed design that gives a smooth, soft and long lasting finish on the front. These items of clothing are suitable for machine wash at 40°C and I have washed them all. It survived the machine wash and tumble dry! They should be tumble dried at a medium heat. The printed designs are still intact with no crack or peel off after washing and wearing it.
As this t-shirt is made from cotton and Mr C finds them very comfortable to wear. The only annoying thing is the labels behind the neck area. I had to cut them all off as it irritates Mr C’s neck. It would be great if the labels were printed instead. Otherwise there is no fault at all. I think these are great products that you can buy it for your male family member or friends as a birthday gift. This is Mr C modelling the clothing. If you are interested in the clothing, simply click the link which will bring you to the seller’s Amazon page. The links are not affiliated.
Mr C wearing large size – 18th Vintage Premium Light Blue http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-18-Slogan-Mens-shirt/dp/B00XWE40OI
In time to celebrate the World Book Day on 3rd March 2016, Egmont is challenging us to create a Star Wars themed costume and also sent us this range of Star Wars books for review.
As some of you might know, we are big fans of Star Wars. We have watched all the seven episodes and can’t wait for the next! After a good think, we decided to make a BB8 costume. I had a quick rummage around our recycle bin and dug out a big brown box.
Want to build these awesome Mega Model: T. Rex, Dragon or Airplane? Then read on! Now you can use these kits to build your very own realistic model to display.
After much success for LEGO Ninjago, Friends, Chima and Star Wars magazines, today they are launching a brand new magazine for Lego NEXO Knights fans! The target audience for this magazine is from aged six onwards. We are so pleased to be one of the first to read their first issue!
Just a week to go and it is going to be Mother’s Day! Have you thought of what to treat your mother on this special day? Will you go to the effort of getting them something or do you prefer to treat her to some lovely flowers or a meal? If you are running out of ideas, I have a few gift ideas under my sleeves that I would like to show you today!
I am so excited to share with you this latest new addition Schleich 2016 range which has gone back to the era when prehistoric creatures first walked our planet with the introduction of ‘The First Dinosaurs’. This Schleich dinosaur range is suitable for children aged 3 and above.
The collection will include five of the first well known dinosaurs, each of which come complete with moving jaw and educational booklet containing facts about each dinosaur. The species includes the Dilophosaurus, Dimetrodon, Barapasaurus, Herrerasaurus and Dunkleosteus.
This hilarious family movie of the year, BILL in DVD, is available now to buy in all good retailers and Amazon from 15th February 2016, courtesy of Universal Pictures (UK), with 90 minutes of funny scenes! It was also made available on Digital HD from 5th February 2016 and Digital On Demand from 12th February, released by Vertigo Films.
Have you checked out Timeline Inventions yet? If not, I would recommend it! You can have a lot of fun learning and discovering at the same time! We definitely did! You are never too old to learn something new. We have been playing this along with General Interest Timeline to learn the list of various events that have shaped the world today!
Recently, I came across Mardles while I was at Toy Fair 2016. You might be wondering what they are! They are stickers that come to life via a free app on your smart device! They have been designed, developed and produced right here in the UK.
I first came across Viridian when I was at a Blogger Christmas event and from there I learnt that Viridian is committed to the use of 100% active ingredients. The company uses pure capsules, powders and liquids to avoid the use of all the nasties needed to make tablets and chewables. From the fields where much of their ingredients are grown through to the recycling bank where the glass bottles are collected, they wish to follow the ethical principle of ‘care for others as we care for ourselves’.
