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Easy Upgrades that Add Value to Your Home

Day to day, few of us consider the value of our house. When we’re on the lookout for a new property, the cost is one of the first things that we consider. Aside from the very lucky few, we’ve got a budget to stick to after all, and there’s no point in wasting time, and getting excited about houses that you could never afford to buy. But, once you are in and settled, you don’t think about how the changes that you are making are affecting the value of your home. You don’t believe that this is something that you need to consider if you’ve got no intention of selling anytime soon.

Make A Good First Impression With Your Hallway

The hallway is often the first room guests see when entering your home and yet most homeowners spend little time decorating it. Here are just several tricks for making your hallway stand out, helping you to create a good first impression.

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!

Baker Ross Father Day Gifts

Thanks to Baker Ross, we often receive great craft kits from them and this month, we have received a range of Father’s Day themed kits and summer themed craft kits. We were provided wooden keyrings, wooden toolbox desk tidy kits, papier Mache farm animal pack, wood clay, giant bamboo leaves, lotus heads, powder paint fluorescent colours and scoubidou strings.

Frozen Fairy Lights, Jewellery Box & Shaker Maker Review

This summer, we have not only been keeping ourselves busy on our feet, we have also had fun doing crafts together. We have received this range of Frozen theme crafts from Flair. They are: the fairy lights, jewellery box and shaker maker.

Pottery at Crackpotz Ceramic Café

A few weeks ago, we went along with the Aiming High group hosted by the Staffordshire County Council to a pottery painting class at the Crackpotz Ceramic Café. This was my children’s first time painting pottery and they were both very excited.

It was not far from our home and it didn’t take us long to reach there but having lived here for a while, I had not been to this small village in the countryside before. It was delightfully peaceful too!

After we arrived, both children were asked to choose the ceramic pottery they would like to decorate. Ms C went for cat while Mr K went for shark. Next they started painting it.

Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 21

A huge welcome to Week 21 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week sadly Kate from Craft on Sea will not be joining us to host this brilliant linky. So for now, it’s just us three bloggers, that is me, The Boy and Me and Hodge Podge Craft. This week I am featuring painting again.

Tuesday Tutorials 2015 Week 20

A huge welcome to Week 20 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! This week I am featuring three different ways of painting. My daughter loves painting so much that sometimes I really run out of ideas! Thanks to the three lovely bloggers for sharing their own creations.

Spring / Summer Crafts

Crafts are always a great way to entertain a bunch of children especially during a party. We often find that whenever we have friends and their children over, our home quickly becomes a madhouse especially with our children as ringleaders. So by giving them something to do like group activities, it helps to ease the noise and mess in the house.

Baker Ross have recently sent me their new spring crafts collections which include the Sealife decoration Sewing Kits, Monster Scratch Art Magnets, Mermaid Weaving Bookmark Kits, Ceramic Gnomes, Coloured Sequins and many more.

Each kit is well packed and they are also great for party bags. They are very well priced and great value. The kits are easy to follow and make. They are always of good quality and come with full instructions.

Last week, we had a birthday party and each child were given a kit to do with their parents. They were all very pleased doing it.

The monster scratch art magnets were a big hit. They all love to scratch and made funny designs on their monsters.

Fish Mobile

This is a very easy craft that we made during the Easter holiday break. Both of my children love fishes and so we decided to make this fish mobile to hang it in our conservatory. We spent at least 20 minutes to colour all the fishes and took me around 10 minutes to thread them into this simple yet beautiful fish mobile.

Happy New Year 2015

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a smashing New Year filled with lots of delightful surprises. May you all have an amazing New Year.

Last week, we have been spending family time at home doing a lot of arts and crafts. I hope this New Year I will be able to bring you more Chinese craft ideas and baking too!

To keep my children entertained during these holidays, we have been painting, baking and shopping too! Both my children had fun painting their welcome poster for the 2015 New Year.

Tuesday Tutorials Week 41

A huge welcome to Week 41 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I am getting my children to write their Christmas cards for their classmates soon!

Pretty Pink Halloween Pumpkin

This year, we are doing things slightly differently with our pumpkin and making it pretty unique. Ms C’s favourite colour is pink and so we decided to paint our pumpkin pink and call this girly pumpkin Emma.

Last week while both kids were in school, I went to the supermarket and bought a large pumpkin. Always remember to check the surface of a pumpkin for holes or mould, making sure it is firm and not soft.

Summer Activities A – Z: P

We did quite a lot of things for the letter P and hope this gives you some inspiration for activities to do together with your children.

Painting Chinese Lantern

Last week, Lichfield Mandarin Club were celebrating the Mooncake Festival. As I am in charge of the craft side, I decided to ask the children to paint a Chinese lantern. I first saw the Chinese lantern’s display in Chinatown while I was in Singapore last month.