Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund Charity Raffle

After reading about the flooding and seeing the shocking images on TV, I was contacted by my Twitter buddy @that_kat who has been a busy bee organising a charity raffle to help raise funds for Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund. I was very happy to be able to donate a prize and pleased to hear she has also had a phenomenal response from other small business owners. There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs and bloggers have also been able to help by spreading the word and raising awareness – what a fabulous group of people!

So, when will the raffle be? Monday 30th November – Sunday 6th December. The finer details are of how the raffle will run are still being worked out and we will keep you updated. The main pages for the raffle will be on Bambino Goodies and you can be sure that the lots up for grabs will feature some cool products.

Although there are already some fabulous prizes, the more the better as this will increase the amount of money that is raised. If you are able to donate a prize please visit the request document here for details of how to do so and updates will also be on Kat's personal blog: Housewife Confidential.

If you have a blog why not write a post about this very worthwhile cause and help spread the word?

Wordless Wednesday

We are STILL waiting for that missing tooth to appear!

When I was looking through some pics of the kids I realised how much they have grown up this last year. It also got me thinking about other kids who are not so lucky as my own. Please have a look at two auctions I am running on Ebay for Children in Need. 100% of the selling price will be donated (minus the small admin fee they charge) & I will be posting them at my own expense.

Happy Halloween

I've never been into Halloween in a big way, it probably stems from my childhood. Mum was never a fan of us bothering the neighbours for sweets! Everywhere I looked this week I had been bombarded with Halloween and become a bit bar-humbug about the whole thing to be honest. Anyway, yesterday afternoon I relented and we decided to just do a few small things at home for the kids.

First of all we carved our pumpkins and kept aside some of the flesh which we added to our yummy vegetable soup recipe. I figured it was a good way to avoid waste and also part of my cunning plan to fill the kids up on vegetables before they tried to consume their body weight in sweets! We also had hot sausage rolls and I served them with a selection of plastic bugs and flies to get us in the mood!
We followed it up with a witches jelly. We used lime jelly, some jelly worms a couple of black plastic spiders for good measure and some edible purple glitter *mwhahahahaha!!!*

After our Halloween feast, the kids got into their costumes, which luckily fit from previous years efforts. I was quite proud of my face painting efforts on Lily, and her missing front tooth seemed to add to the effect quite well!! This is her pulling her scary face!

We visited a couple of neighbours, where Mr Juicytot had already deposited sweets earlier, in anticipation of our visit! The kids were highly delighted and jolly fun was had by all.

Wordless Wednesday: Smile please! NO....smile please!

ME: "Can you smile for mummy?...... OK then, just stand still, normal face....put your arms down"

Molo Rosesky top available in sizes 74-92cm, "modelled" (and I use that term loosely) by Ruby. Never work with animals or children, unless you are VERY patient!!

Wordless Wednesday: yummy fabrics

Sophie4Sophie Limited Edition Baby Blankets

As seen on Bambino Goodies today!!

I was so very excited this week when my latest order from Natalie & Sophie of Sophie4Sophie in Brighton started to arrive. I had discussed my idea of making some designer fabric Baby blankets with them as I know mums with boys who had seen their gorgeous reversible dresses had all commented on the lovely fabrics they use and that with the colder weather approaching it would be another way to show some serious good taste when out and about!

The fabrics they have used are top quality designer 100% cotton fabrics for the front of the blanket and the reverse is made from the softest, most stroke-able, minky plush you could ever hope to touch. (My 9yo son wanted to make a teddy bear from it!) The blankets measure a generous 90cm x75cm approx and so are ideal for the pram, car seat or cot or even for older toddlers to snuggle with on the sofa in style!

The blankets can be washed at 30C, if you can get them off your children to wash them! They would make a gorgeous present for a new baby this Christmas. they are priced at £32.99 and postage is FREE in the UK. We can ship worldwide too at a small charge. Please visit the juicytots website to snap up yours double quick as we only have one or two in each design!

NEW Charlie and Lola Party range is here at last!

I cannot tell you how excited I am to finally have (most of!!) the Charlie and Lola party table range in stock! It has been long awaited believe me. The new Charlie and Lola range consists of plates, cups, tablecloth, napkins, loot bags, balloons, mini bubble pots and my favourite item the Charlie and Lola paper cake cases!

You can really go to town with the Charlie and Lola theme as we also have invitations and thank you cards as well as Charlie and Lola birthday cards and wrapping paper.

Prices range between £2.45 and £3.99 and we only charge a maximum of £3.95 for delivery within the UK no matter how large your order. We can also ship the Charlie and Lola range Worldwide which I am sure will please all those Charlie and Lola fans in The United States and Australia!