Our Holiday Part 2

A home made melon boat cake thingy for Phil's Birthday with mango shaped fish. x

Our Holiday Part 1

We have only been back for a couple of days, but the holiday seems like a wonderful dream that never happened. 

Putting these pics together ignited all those amazing memories of what a wonderful time we had. 

Lanzarote is not "lanzagrotty" which it is so often called, there is unspoiled beauty everywhere if you look away from the resort centres.

All Packed Up

All packed up and ready to leave for our holidays tomorrow at the crack of dawn. I find it so hard to pack, and struggle with packing light. The picture below is how I could travel quite happily and could easily fill them all. 

Now having to share my case with Rex poses a space issue, as I find it already so hard to choose what to take for myself. I now also have to think about Rex too. I'm very good at giving out advice on packing, such as capsule wardrobes etc, being a stylist by trade and all. It all goes out the window with packing for myself and I want to take everything with me. I am a "what if I need it" kind of girl, packing for every eventuality. Even though every holiday I always wear just a couple of trusty favourites. I'm rubbish, I just can't pack light.

I'm learning slowly though. I now take only half the stuff I used to as the other half of the case is given to Rex.

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The Dream I have of being able to pack like this.

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The reality my suitcase.

Rex's little case he has the idea of travelling light . All he needs are his favourite Nick knacks.

And a pair of my sunglasses x

Boat Races

We had a wonderful day out catching the last sun rays of summer and a family boat race along the river. 

All you need for a truly wonderful day out is some paper, scissors, glue and cocktail sticks. Oh, and a river. I know I say this again and again but having Rex has really opened my eyes to the simple things in life, they really are so much fun. Stone skimming is so underrated in adult life. 

These are the days that make life fantastic x

Watch me to find out how to make paper boats. x

Baby Grow Monsters

Rex is growing at the rate of knots. With all this growing comes lots of old worn baby grows and T's. I know its sad but I also get really attached to certain pieces of Rex's clothing. So this is also a great keepsake for that favourite baby grow. ( Don't leave me hanging, I can't be the only one that has those favourites ?!)

So here is a little fun DIY project that I thought of to use all the worn and tattered old bits of Rex's. 

Less in the landfill too x

All you need to do is get a grow and cut a card template design of a monster you have created.

Place the template on the grow.

Cut out allowing a 1cm seam allowance for stitching together. Then cut out felt details of eyes and teeth etc. 

Stitch the details on before you stitch two pieces together. 
Then place right side to right side and stitch together.
Then stuff, via a tiny hole you leave open after stitching, then top stitch the stuffing hole closed.

Ta dah ! There you have your mini Baby Grow Monster x

Mama And Baba Style

Rex for the first time the other day decided which t-shirt he wanted to wear, oh my ! the start of things to come. My little baby is becoming a little boy. Good choice though love this t-shirt from Sainsbury's and shorts from Tesco's love a bit of supermarket fashion. Floral dungarees for me, love a dungaree.