Paperscapes – The Spectacular Journey Into Space Giveaway

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Paperscapes Journey into space kids facts book.
AD – Gifted collaboration We have recently been introduced to the lovely children’s discovery books from Paperscapes. You may have seen our review of The Fearsome World Of Dinosaurs which is full of fun facts. Today we have a copy of Paperscapes – The Spectacular Journey Into Space to giveaway! As with the Fearsome World Of Dinosaurs, this has lovely illustrated die-cut pages. Gently pull away the surrounding paper by the perforated edge to transform the book into an interactive… View Post

Crochet Catch Up And Spring Awakening

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Winter pansies in pots.
Happy hump day and happy first day of Spring too! I love this time of year. The bulbs have all woken up from their winter slumber and are cheerfully brightening up our garden. Grape hyacinths in the border It’s been nice to get back out in the garden. I’m always at my happiest when I’m tatting around outside, it’s nice to have a little escapism for a while. I’ve just filled up all of the feeders again and popped some… View Post

National Geographic™ STEM Activities Dig Kits

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National Geographic Fossil dig kits
  AD – Gifted collaboration As a homeschooling family we are big fans of STEM projects, so when we were recently chosen to become a Bandai STEM ambassador it made our day! Over the next few months we will be sharing lots of fun and educational STEM activities and first up is the National Geographic™ Dino Dig Kit and Real Bug Dig Kit. Jayden is still into his dinosaurs so it came as no surprise when he cracked open the… View Post

Monday Morning Blog Club 18/3/19

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Monday Morning Blog Club. Spring flatlay
Hello all and welcome to this week’s #MMBC. I hope you all had a good week last week and a nice weekend too. We were going to visit some more English Heritage sites on Saturday but the weather was vile, so we will be doing that this week instead. Our garden is looking so colourful thanks to the grape hyacinths, primroses and the masses of daffodils. I picked a few yesterday and they are now cheering up our kitchen table.… View Post

Storytelling Fun With Dixit

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dixit game layout
  AD – Gifted collaboration We love being part of the Asmodee Blogger Board Game Club. We are extremely lucky to get to review loads of fun board games. Recently we reviewed SET, Carcassonne and Who did it?. This week we have been reviewing Dixit.   Dixit Age 8+ Yrs RRP £29.99 This is a card based game for between three and six players. In the box is 84 illustrated story cards, Six different colour player markers and a corresponding… View Post

Hersey & Son Silver Gifts – And Giveaway

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Silver gifts. A pair of pretty heart drop earrings from Hersey & Son
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and we have already shared our Mother’s Day gift guide, which is full of lovely gift ideas. We have recently partnered up with Hersey & Son who have some lovely silver gifts to offer and are kindly giving away a beautiful pair of silver heart drop earrings! M. C. Hersey & Son Ltd is a Silversmiths workshop based in London. The company was established by Michael Hersey in 1971, with his son Stewart… View Post