Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Did you know the benefits of piecing jigsaw puzzles? First, they are a great tool for mindfulness. What I mean by mindfulness is that by focusing on placing the pieces together, it helps you to shut out day-to-day stresses and worries, especially during times like these.
Big waves to all my readers and I hope you are all well! Let’s forget about this virus for now and let me start this post with a big shout out to the lovely reputable toy brand TOMY! As we are running up to Easter soon, I have good news for my readers in that TOMY are giving away all these amazing toys to one of my readers!
If you are looking at things to do with your child or things to do just for yourself during this horrible lockdown period, why not sit down and enjoy some time out with a jigsaw. Did you know that piecing jigsaw puzzles are a great tool for mindfulness? By focusing on placing the pieces together, it helps to shut out day-to-day stresses and worries. Not only that, but regularly participating in mindfulness can also have long term benefits.
Listen up! Especially kids from the 80s to 90s or any current or old Dragon Ball mega-super fans, for the first time ever, Dragon Ball licensed toys are available in the UK for the kids’ and toy market. The range includes everything from super-sized Limit Breaker figures to mini-blind bag collectables!
Growing up in the 80s, Dragon Ball is one of many manga anime series I watched through my childhood as typically anime would be on the TV every Saturday afternoon and also available via comic books. It is one of the most successful manga and anime series of all time.
The L.O.L. Surprise! Furniture Packs Series 2 are back, and you can unbox 10+ surprises in each one. There are four to collect: Furniture Backstage with Independent Queen, Furniture Festival with Grunge Grrrl, Ice Cream Pop-Up with Bon Bon and Furniture Road Trip with Can Do Baby! Have you got yours yet?
Did you join in the fun-filled Elf For Christmas Twitter Party last Friday with TiredmummyofTwo? We had so much fun discussing festive family traditions and sharing ideas on how to keep the magic alive with Christmas Elves! If you would like to start an awesome new family tradition, then you have come to the right place!
Last week, we had the most awesome delivery that any Harry Potter fan would love to get their hands on or see under their Christmas tree this Christmas! Inside this enormous box, there were the top 10 Harry Potter Christmas in the Wizarding World wish list items!
So, there is the latest Wow!Stuff Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak which launched recently, LEGO® Harry Potter Knight Bus™ which is one of the Top 12 DreamToys 2019 choices, the magnificent LEGO® Harry Potter Hogwarts™ Clock Tower, Harry Potter Sorting Hat™ which came out a year ago, the Harry Potter Yule Ball Doll, Harry Potter Wizard Training Wand, the amazing Hornby Hogwarts™ Express, Harry Potter Pictopia, Harry Potter Dobble and the Harry Potter The Cursed Child: The Journey book!
After a long wait of six years, Frozen 2 will be hitting UK cinemas on the 22 November 2019! We were so excited to be the first few to receive these gorgeous Frozen 2 toys: Playdate Sven and “Into the Unknown” Elsa doll from Jakks Pacific! Ms C is a huge fan of this absolute smash-hit Frozen movie and she loved every minute of this show. Even though it was six years ago, she still loves the characters, especially Sven.
Before I go into further details of these two toys, I would like to invite all my readers to join me on the 19th November 2019 for an hour long Twitter Party at 6pm! Remember to save the date and time!
This half term coincides with Halloween and I have one Fuzzi School Pop-Up set to giveaway to my readers! This playset comes complete with four students (hamster, lamb, monkey, mouse) and a wise owl teacher. The book opens to reveal three school sections, all with built-in furniture; the playground, the classroom and the dining room.
Finally, the sun is out and it is time to play! Last weekend, we were unleashing hundreds of Bunch O Balloons and had so much fun! This worldwide phenomenon Bunch O Balloons now has a new product which is the filler/soaker! You can fill up your Bunch O Balloons at any location as long as there is a pool of water or you can use it like a water blaster! It is lightweight and easy to pump. It is best to play where there is a bucket or pool of water to fill up!
This is our third month’s review as part of Bandai STEM Ambassadors and it was as challenging a project as we’ve ever done. Both kits, the Crystal Lab and Sea-Monkeys, need a lot of patience and they all need to be set in the right environment to grow!
In case you didn’t know about National Geographic, they make a huge range of STEM sets which allow your child/children to explore, create and discover something amazing about the natural world! There is so much out there for us to discover and learn about our amazing world!
This Father’s Day, we are taking Mr C on a trip down memory lane and the hero of his childhoods; Action Man! Action Man has been the favourite action figure of generations and their Timeless Classic range is not only just like the original but is packaged the same too! It seemed like a brilliant idea to rekindle those memories in time for this Father’s Day.
We are so thrilled to announce that Squishmallows are landing in the UK next week. There are 13 super-special animal characters launching and with further Christmas characters already confirmed for the 2019 festive period. Not only that, there will more Squishmallows added throughout the year with the back to school clip-on range and the Disney range arriving for this Christmas giving you even more characters to choose from!
Did you manage to join in an hour fun-filled Sqishmallows Twitter Party with the exclusive UK distributor HexBugs yesterday? Both my children are loving these super cute and soft Squishmallows 7.5 inch plushes and have been fighting over them since!
Now you can recreate your favourite ultimate monster trucks racing and freestyling with this awesome range of Monster Jam toys! Mr K is into his cars and loves watching those big monster trucks doing stunts! He was thrilled when he saw these Monster Jam toys and it is definitely up his street!
My son and I are always fascinated with mummies and the strange phenomena and myths that surround them. Mummies Exposed is written by Kerrie Logan Hollihan and has been sent to us by Abrams Books for Young Readers. This book is easy to read and understand which is suitable for young readers. I also find this book easy to understand, especially as my English is not my strongest subject!
