Baker Ross sent us some really lovely Spring themed art and craft kits for us to try out! We adore arts and crafts and being creative! Ellie was super excited to get stuck into these!


We first coloured in the creative flower wreaths.


Each pack contains 6 assorted spring/floral designs, each wreath comes with a piece of ribbon to hang the wreath and the wreachs are approx 18.cm in size. They are printed on good quality card, you can use fine tip fibre pens or markers to colour these lovely wreaths in.

Ellie choose the daffodil and tulip pattern to colour in first! She was all "It's almost Spring and these are perfect for Spring time" She is SO excited for Spring, as am I. We coloured the wreaths in together (because I am a big kid and I love to colour, haha)


"My favourite flowers are tulips... RED Tuplips" Ellie told me. "I'm colouring these in so carefully! I can't wait to hang them up when they're finished" She really enjoyed colouring these in, as did I. There is a hole already cut into the wreaths ready for the ribbon to be threaded through and then the wreaths can be hung.

These were great fun to colour in and they make a lovely decoration for this time of year!
Priced at just £2.60 for a pack of six, they are so worth the money!


Next up we decided to make the peacock crinkle decorations!
Before we had even opened the packet Ellie told me "I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THESE! They're SO pretty" in a rather excited voice, haha.


Each pack contains four foam assorted peacocks in different colours, along with foam self adhesive shapes/stickers, some sequins, wiggle eyes, the peacock templates and some tissue paper. The peacock size is around 12.5cm. You will also need glue or foam dots (which is not included) We used a glue stick just fine though.


Ellie looked at the instructions and said "Do I fold the tissue paper like a fan?" I told her that yes that's right. So that's what we did, we folded the tissue paper as you would a fan. Backwards and forwards until we got to the end. And then we folded our "Fan" like tissue paper in half, we fanned it out and glue the folded halves together "This looks like a peacocks wings" Ellie declared. We then added the peacock template. The peacock template is self adhesive.

I threaded the ribbon through the hole.
Ellie then added the face, beak and eyes which are also self adhesive.



We decorated the peacock and wings together. Using the self adhesive foam stickers for the wins and the sequins for the body of the peacock. We used our glue to glue the sequins onto the peacock.
"WOW these are just beautiful" Ellie told me.


They are now hanging proudly on our kitchen window handles along with the suncatchers that Baker Ross also kindly sent us!

Baker Ross have such a wine range of Spring arts and crafts to choose from! They're all very reasonably priced and always great quality. I really can not recommend there products enough.
You can also follow Baker Ross on Pinterest for more inspiration and information.

What's your little ones favourite Spring art and craft activity? Or what do you like most about Spring time?

Sarah xXx

We were sent a sample of these products for the purpose of this review. All opinions are my own, honest, personal opinions. I was not paid for this post.

It's finally half term and it's more than welcome in our house! Having a break from the school routine does everyone the world of good! While the weather was nice we decided to take a trip to the park, it was a gorgeous day, the sun was shinning and it was 7 degrees which is quite shocking considering the day before it was snowing! Having a crisp sunny day reminded us of spring... Which isn't very far away at all and we can not wait.




Charlie took his scooter to the park as there is a ramp there which scooters can be used on! Harry took his bike and Ellie decided she was going to walk with me. The boys also took a football, too! They love playing football and while the weather was nice, they decided to make the most of it.
We had a go on the play area, by 'we' I mean the kids... Although I may or may not have had a go on the swings (Such a good leg workout, haha). We also had a walk around the edge of the woods and the kids had a go on some of the fitness trail equipment, I decided to give that a miss though, haha. And of course, the boys had a good kick around with the football, hehe.
It was quite mild in the sunshine, Harry even got too hot wearing his jacket whilst running around! Spring isn't very far away.. YAY!








We had a really lovely time at the park before heading home for lunch! We are hoping to make another trip to the park and perhaps venture in the woods this week! We hope you're enjoying half term so far, too!

Sarah xXx

Harper Collins got in touch with me and asked me if I'd like to review Nobody's Son by Cathy Glass. Nobody's son is Cathy's new book and is out at the end of this month. I am a HUGE Cathy Glass fan and couldn't wait to read this book! (You can check out my other Cathy Glass book reviews by clicking on the 'Cathy Glass' label on the right side of my blog).

 The blurb:

Sarah xXx


I was sent a copy of this book for the purpose of the review. All opinions are my own. I was not paid for this post.

Baker Ross sent us some lovely art and craft kids to review. Included were these beautiful Flower Suncatcher Decorations and Glass Colour Pens.


Ellie was super excited to start colouring the suncatchers with the glass pens! The pens come in a pack of five (orange, white, pink, blue and green). They are transparents gloss liquid paint and need a good shake before using! (These pens can also be used on plastic, metal and porcelain)


Next up we took out our suncatchers and Ellie picked which ones she wanted to colour in. The suncatchers come in a pack of 8 assorted designs. The suncatchers are approximately 8cm in size. Also supplied are 8 ribbons to hang the suncatchers with.


The glass pens work perfectly on the plastic! The colours are bright and virant. I also would like to mention that the pens wipe off the surfaces (and hands!) very easy, too!
Ours took a short while to dry as we left them close by the radiator! And then we hung them up on the window handles. thjey make a lovely, unique, Spring decoration. After this long, cold winter, we are very much looking forward to spring and these suncatchers remind us that spring isn't very far away! Ellie told me "I'm really looking forward to spring and some warm weather! I bet the sun shining through the window will nake these suncatchers look even prettier" Bless her.


Ellie coloured hers in carefully. "These are super fun, I bet they'll look great hanging on the window" Ellie told me. It didn't take her long to colour them in.. I may have had to have a try too... because I am a big kid and these looked like such great fun to decorate. We really enjoyed decorating them!


 The top of each suncatcher has a hole which the ribbon can be threaded through. It was ever so easy to thread the ribbon and then tie a knot at the top so the ribbon didn't fall through.




Priced at just £2.99 (at the time of writing this review) for a pack of 8 suncatchers, I'd say they're well worth the money. They're easy to decorate and great fun! Ellie really enjoyed decorating them.A perfect little Spring activity for any child who enjoys being creative!

What's  your favourite spring activity?

Sarah xXx




We were sent a sample of this product for the purpose of this review. All opinions are my own, honest, personal opinions, I was not paid for this post.

 

Phew! January is almost over (This is a scheduled post) and I am really glad to see the back of January. It was a hard, busy and stressful month. Anyway here are the best and worst bits from the past week or so.


Negatives:

•  I weighed myself last week and I was not impressed! Not at all. More on that in a minute though. 
• I had a bit of a low day on Saturday. I just felt really deflated and down. My weight issues didn't exactly help. 
• My tumble drier has packed up. With some googling and reading comments, it sounds like it's the thermostat. *sigh* 
• Not looking forward to Ellie's dentist appointment on Friday but I know she will do great! 

Positives:

• I went to my very first (free) fitness class last week. I am so proud of myself. Not only is this the first step to loosing weight BUT! I also overcome the anxiety I was suffering with in the lead up to going. I was dreading working out in front of people, I very nearly didn't go but I needn't have worried. It was actually really good and I can't wait to go again. I am really going to try and beat this anxiety, I can't go on being anxious about everything. Yes, it'll be hard and it certainly won't happen over night but I NEED to do this! I CAN do this!
• I have done amazing with my eating. Had a bit of a bad eating day Saturday but apart from that, I've been eating really healthy and properly! I'm also enjoying green tea again, yay! 
• I've been a lot more sociable this month. Which is another huge step for me! I set myself some goals at the start of this month and one of those was to be more social. I've been more sociable with family and I've also started to get to know my neighbour better! She's a really lovely lady, we've been going to fit club together! I'm really proud of myself. I am not a sociable person, I like my own company and talking to people just makes me anxious, so another goal I have achieved and again, over come the anxiety a little. I still like my own company and I still feel anxious about being sociable but I do think this is a step in the right direction for me. Little steps is the key.
• Ellie is really enjoying cheer leading (an after school club) once a week! I am very proud of her for giving it a go! 
• I've been saving (for a long time!) so that I can re-decorate my front room! Hopefully by the end of this month, I'll have started it! I can not wait for it to feel homely and cosy. 
• Ohhhh and I also have a really awesome giveaway running at the moment for a hot dog maker. You can enter here.

Overall, the positives defiantly out weight the negatives, which is always good! Hopefully February will be a much calmer month.

What are your best and worst moments this week?

Sarah xXx