Playing by the book

Reviews of kids' books and the crazy, fun stuff they inspire us to do

Holding tea parties in style

Another guest post I wrote recently was about tea parties and how to make a shabby chic cake stand! The original post appeared on the marvellous Red Ted Art blog written by Maggy, but here’s a slightly updated post for you today. What you’ll need to create your own cake display stand: 3 plates, each [...]

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Sweetness all round

Kerry of Picture Books and Pirouettes recently awarded me The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award. Thankyou Kerry! Recipients of this award are encouraged to: Thank and link to the person who nominated you. Share seven random facts about yourself. Pass the award along to 15 deserving blog buddies. Contact those buddies to congratulate them. It’s not [...]

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Good Wolves, preventing child deaths and a giveaway

Even though it’s a new moon, rather than a full moon, this week we’ve been surrounded by wolves at home. First, whilst M was poorly last week we read Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr, having been inspired to do so by this review, and for the last few days we’ve been [...]

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