August was quite a stressful month so it was nice to start September with a picnic! The kids and I love picnics and we live in such a beautiful area, there are plenty of pretty, peaceful places to actually have a nice picnic! We packed the picnic up in our new picnic hamper which was kindly sent to me to review. We took a football with us, too and away we went! Walking through the woods to the beautiful meadow on the other side is our favourite spot! There's plenty of space for the kids to run around and burn off energy and it's so very peaceful.




This is a lovely spot where me and my brothers and sisters use to play as kids, it's really lovely to be able to create memories, in the same place, with my own children.

After our picnic, the kids had a kick around with the ball and rolled down the hill, which was great fun for them, hehe.






We had a wonderful afternoon, the weather was perfect and thankfully not TOO hot! Walking back through the woods I managed to capture this picture below (on my phone!) of the lake in the woods, isn't it beautiful?


Maybe we'll be able to squeeze in a couple more picnics before the cooler weather hits us! I hope you've been enjoying the weather, too :)
How has your summer been?

For anyone that knows me and my children, you'll know we love a good picnic. Having a decent, good quality picnic set is a must have for us, so when I was asked if I'd like to review a Savisto product, I chose the 4 person wicker picnic basket with a full picnic set.


The picnic basket set only took a couple of days to arrive, I was quite impressed with the fast delivery and also the packaging. Everything was packaged really well so nothing got broken in transit.

I couldn't wait to open the picnic basket and all the little packages it contained. I was really impressed with just how much it includes. All the little packages contained the following.

• A traditional, woven, wicker basket 
• A full dinnerware set including:
•  4x small plates, 
• 4x cutlery sets
• 4x small wine glasses, 
• 1x salt and pepper shaker set
• 1x multi-tool drinks opener (corkscrew, bottle opener and knife)
• Two large capacity cooler bags
• A wine cooler bag. 
• 4x napkins

The basket itself is made from a wicker, woven wood material and is lined with fabric that features a lovely pattern perfect for a picnic! The basket is a very good size! (Dimensions: 400mm Width x 300mm Depth x190mm Height). The cooler bags fit lovely into the basket, too. After opening the picnic basket up, I noticed the lid is filled with designated leather straps and loops to fit the picnic set in. Which makes more room for the picnic food inside the basket!

The hardware (the clasps, chains etc) are made from a gold metal and the straps are a brown leather strong material to keep everything in place. Everything fits and clips in perfectly so no need to worry about any breakages.
The handle on the picnic basket is also made from brown leather and is very sturdy and strong. It's connected to the basket with a gold ring and gold studs. 
 The plates are ceramic and the perfect size for picnic - not too big and not too small. They strap into the lid of the picnic basket perfectly. The same with wine glasses - They are real glass and again, they strap into the picnic basket perfectly via a Velcro strap inside the basket, to stop them from breaking and moving around whilst the basket is being transported.


The cutlery is made from stainless steel and again it slots into place perfectly, into the designated loops, designed especially for the cutlery.

 The salt and pepper shakers are a really lovely addition! They're perfect picnic size and fit perfectly into the designated loops.
I really like the multi tool, this is indeed very handy! It features a knife, a corkscrew and a bottle opener. This is also made from stainless steel and is very good quality indeed.


Napkins are another must have on a picnic, especially when you have children in tow. The napkins are a soft material which is washable and can be used time and time again. The napkins are a good size and also feature the same pattern as the interior of the picnic basket.


The fact that this picnic basket is so compact and everything fits in so well makes it easy to transport. It's easy to carry, too! This picnic set is such good quality and is well worth the money in my opinion. This picnic basket set is priced at £49.99. It's perfect for picnic dates and family picnics. I know that we will get a lot of use out of this picnic set and I really like that the plates, glasses, cutlery is real and not plastic makes it even more good value for money!

Savisto sell a wide range of home ware and outdoors products, from kitchen ware, gadgets and gifts and so much more!

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Have you had any picnics this summer?


I'll be sharing our picnic afternoon in a separate post so be sure to look out for that :)

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

I don't think we did that great with our August bucket list. August turned out to be a stressful month. However, I do think September will be more "doable"... Hopefully. Here's our family focused bucket list for September.

Life has been quite hectic lately. I have had a lot going on and I really haven't been feeling myself. I think it's just that I let everything get on top of me the past couple of weeks or so and it's resulted in me falling into some kind of slump. Anyway, things should get back to normal now and I'm feeling a lot more like myself and a lot more positive in general.

I've also had headaches on and off (brain condition.. I've wrote about it before so I won't go into that again). I try not to go on about all of this to my friends and family as I feel like all I do is moan.
Blogging has seriously taken a back seat and has not been my priority lately as I have just had so much going on and I really haven't felt like blogging, or joining in on social media at all. I do feel much better now things have calmed down a lot. I am so grateful for the support I have had - I'm really grateful to my friend who messages back and fourth and my fella, my mum and just everyone who I'm close to!

I've been organsing my sister's 21st Birthday party, which was not an easy task. I won't go into details now. It's all over now and everything went great! My sister had a really wonderful night and was totally surprised! Yay! Bless her. Ha, I feel old now that my youngest sibling is TWENTY ONE! Goodness knows how my mum must feel.

I had a really lovely catch up with my friend last week. I hadn't seen her since February so you can imagine how much we had to catch up. Ellie and her daughter are best friends so they had a wonderful time catching up, too! My friends baby is now a toddler which is hard to believe. Time goes so fast. It was a wonderful day. We ventured out to the park, too! It was truly lovely.

I've discovered organising and bullet journaling and let me just say. I LOVE IT! Organsing my life is my 'new thing'. Still really loving my organiser from paperchase, which I wrote about a few weeks ago!

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We've enjoyed the six weeks holidays and had walks, trips to the park, fed the ducks and had ice creams along the river. We've been out shopping, visited  grandparents, been swimming. Ellie's been to birthday party and the boys have had a couple of fishing trips with there dad, they've also been to the pier and what not. Overall I think it's actually been a fairy good summer for them all!

 I am wondering if I can squeeze in a trip to the arcades but we will see! If not there are plenty of weekends :) We're going on a picnic this week, which will be a lot of fun! We have explored our area a lot and found a couple of really lovely picnic spots. Yay!

I feel bittersweet about the kids going back to school. I have missed the routine a lot. I'm not looking forward to the kids actually going back to school because I'll miss them SO much! It's way too quiet when they're not here and actually quite boring but the routine will be nice to have back. Harry - my eldest son will be starting year 8 and Charlie starts year 7 (I still can't believe he's old enough for high school. I'm just getting over the fact Harry started last September and now Charlie is starting! It's crazy!) and Ellie will be in year 4. Total madness. I'm so proud of them - They're looking forward to going back and seeing all there friends. Charlie is SUPER excited about high school but I do think he's nervous about catching the school bus... At least he has Harry there to help him :)
Anyway, I'm rambeling now so I'll leave this here.

How has your summer been?