Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
As winter draws upon us and the days are getting darker, keep illuminated with these Ryobi Area Light; the 18V Cordless Folding Area Light and 18V Cordless Area Light. They are not only portable and lightweight, they are so powerful and can light up the darkest corner of your house!
How to Protect Your Kitchen Surfaces?
The kitchen is at the heart of most homes. Not only does it provide you with food, family time and a social area, it can be a great escape from the rest of the house. You are in there every day cooking meals, chatting about your day or sipping glasses of wine with friends to pass the time. This means that the kitchen is in constant use.
Its surfaces are being used all day every day; the kids are baking on the worktops, you are preparing your meals and the cupboards are being filled full of fabulous ingredients ready to be cooked with. So how do you protect theses surfaces? How do you keep them lasting as long as possible?
How to maintain your decking? Maintaining your decking annual is important to not only keep it looking appealing, but to also help to increase its lifespan. Ever since we had the decking installed five years ago at the end of our garden, it has become one of my annual summer projects!
Want to learn how to build a Pallet Playhouse step by step? This is my second pallet project and I have loved the challenge of building this! After building the pallet climbing frame, my daughter wanted me to build her a playhouse. It has always been her dream to have a playhouse in the garden. So I decided to put the leftover pallets to good use.
How to build a Pallet climbing frame! It has always been my dream to learn to build or make something useful for my children. Recently I learned from my friend’s husband that he has been using pallets to build his own shed and chicken coop. So I decided to build my children a climbing frame using pallets. I went around and spoke to people for advice and looked through Pinterest for ideas. Then I drew out my plan!
Spring is here! Welcome to Week 9 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week the linky will be open until 11th March so you have plenty of time to link up! This week I am featuring Valentine’s crafts.
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.
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Shopping at Tesco is always a regular choice for me as not only it is a bigger EXTRA store, they also offer a free venue for our Lichfield Mandarin Club every Tuesday from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm. We have been using their community room since last year December for our Chinese class. This works out great for us as my children go to learn their mother’s tongue and I can also have two hours of child free grocery shopping and have some relaxing cup of tea at the in-store Costa.
Some of you might know that I was born in Singapore and my family never celebrated Christmas while we were growing up. As we live here in the UK though, I want my children to have some of the Christmas spirit as their friends do so they don’t miss out. So since two years ago, we started to make a gingerbread house as part of our Christmas tradition at home!
Last week, Anthea Turner joins Vivid Toy Group to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Thunderbirds TV series which launched on 30th September in 1965. If you are a big fan of Blue Peter, you probably remember that Anthea Turner’s demonstration of building a replica Thunderbirds base using papier-mache and toilet paper tubes. The beloved 1993 home-made creation caused such a fuss Blue Peter was inundated with requests for an instruction leaflet, which is still available online.
This year represents the 3rd time Vivid Toy Group have launched Tracy Island as part of their Thunderbirds toy range. Having already been listed in a raft of Toy retailers’ Top 10 Toys for Christmas, Hamleys Boys’ Category Manager believes that the new, Interactive version is a sure fire hit: “Tracy Island stands out as the one to watch this Christmas and a complete sell out is predicted.” She continues: “It’s amazing that 50 years on Thunderbirds still has the power to engage with children and adults alike, it’s rich history remastered to a 21st century audience has only strengthened its appeal and place as an iconic British brand.”
The presenters’ original Blue Peter Tracy Island model is unveiled alongside the new Interactive Tracy Island. How awesome is that!
Along with other bloggers this week, I have decided to make a series of stick crafts from using popsicles to twigs. I have made a game from my childhood which is the pick up sticks game! I used to play that with my friends in school and I thought it would be nice to pass it down to my children too.
I can’t believe half of the year has gone and this is my seventh challenge as a Bostik Blogger. This month’s theme is outdoors. I have received a crafting box packed with coloured paper, ribbons, felts, Blu Tack glu pen, Blu Tack foam and many more.
We just had our sports day last week and both of my children have been very keen to do more sports activities in this warm weather! So we made these tissue paper batons to use in a relay at home.
Recently, I went to the Hillary Blinds craft event in Birmingham to learn how to make a fabric book cover and a bird. Since then, I keen wanting to make a fabric toilet paper holder for the family bathroom toilet. The kids use this toilet the most and it is very plain. We have not yet tackled that room and left it as it was when we bought our home. There is no mirror, shower panels or any pictures. So I took up Hillarys’ craft challenge to use one of their four new fabrics to make something creative.
Having lived in the Midlands for seven years, there are still a lot of places we have yet to explore. Last week, during the Easter break, we went to Beaudesert Park Farm for an education tour hosted by Aiming High via Staffordshire Council. Helpfully, I had my TomTom Sat Nav to give me a helping hand to find Beaudesert Park Farm. We were greeted by Mary, the owner and her helper who guided us through the whole session.
A huge welcome to Week 15 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! Hope you all had a great Easter break! Both of my children are still off school and we are going to do lots of activities while the weather is warm. This week I am featuring DIY ideas.
This week, we been having fun learning through educational STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) focused activities at home. This powered clock is a science activity that is suitable for aged 5 and above. I do find it difficult to explain to my children but they did get the gist of it!
To make life easier, rather than looking around for all the bits to build, we had this Lemon Clock kit provided by Great Gizmos for our Twitter party. If you want to get this kit, you can get it online such as from Amazon. If you prefer to make your own, you would need black and red wires, copper and zinc plates, LCD clock and tape.
This kit is simple to build but it is best to allow older children or an adult to build it as the bits are quite fragile.
