Ola Blogging Banditos! After the lack of Weekly Showcase whilst I was off sunning my milk bottle legs we are back with a monster of a ridonkulously* super Showcase!
A quick mention of a couple of things that have caught my beady eye over the past couple of weeks that you may be interested in. I Heart Snapping is well worth a look for tips on photography and design to help make you blog look beautiful , they have a feature weekly called ‘Links We Love and I Heart My Snap‘ where you can find some handy links and also link up any photo posts – any photos you love at all.
On the subject of photo linkys, a newer blogger who uses Love New Blogs, The Mummy Adventure, has set up a new photo linky where you can link up a photo that has made you smile called You Make Me Smile. Photo linkys like these are a really good way of driving some new readers to your blog and easy to join in with.
And finally I am going to be really cheeky and link to a section of my own blog that has a few basic design and photo tutorials including a couple of good free photo editing sites/programs and a site where you can download free, very cool, tileable backgrounds.
Until next week…enjoy!
Annie @MammasaurusBlog
*that may not be a real word
Run of the Windmill
Naked Snails
I’ve been in the garden scooping slugs and snails out of the sandpit. The slugs have been an on-going problem for a while now. Last summer I must have found hundreds of them. I am not a very keen gardener, or more to the point I haven’t got a clue what I’m doing, but we have inherited an oasis of green and even an overzealous grapevine that seems to sprout new shoots on a daily basis. The branches creep down trying to invade the house through the back door.
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The Mummy Adventure
My Britmums Live Diary
After months of planning and excitement Britmums Live weekend finally arrived. Armed with my phone, my notebook and my galaxy tab, I set about to record my experience of the parenting blogging community in all their glory
Friday 11.30am
I am sat on the train wondering whether this was really a good idea.
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twins tiaras & tantrums
BABY WIPES DO NOT FLUSH WELL!!!
I have learnt a very big lesson today; BABY WIPES DO NOT FLUSH WELL!!!
I realized this a little too late, after Mookin decided to go on her potty for a poopy while I was in the shower this morning. Not only had she been on her potty, but the good girl had also wiped, (with what I can only describe as half a pack of Pampers baby wipes.) “Finally” I thought, we are getting somewhere.
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Crafts On Sea
I went to Brit Mums Live and all I got was a huge bag of stuff!
So I’ve been wondering if I should write this post or not. InThePowderRoom paid for my ticket so to then say ‘well, actually…’ seems a little rude. But then I just read a great blog by (mostly)yummymummy and I thought, oh why not. I’ve got five minutes left of my lunch break, how much trouble can I get into?
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mummyslittlepeeps
Naively expecting!
have always wanted children and naively presumed that it would be one of those things that just happened when the time was right. I mean that’s what we are told from an early age isn’t it? Things weren’t that easy for me,
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The Single Mum Adventures
Sound of the ocean …ssssshhhhhhhh
Sound of the ocean …ssssshhhhhhhh. A very clever phrase I learnt when one is trying to control 30 over excited 8/9 year olds!
In a very short nutshell I loved the classroom work experience. Inspirational.
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Mynd And Mist
Tell me a story from in your head
…this was Childe The First’s request to me last night as I was getting him ready for bed. He’d been complaining that his mattress was too lumpy because of the wooden slats beneath it; I’d laughed and said he was like the Princess And The Pea. He hadn’t heard this story before, so I told him it while he sat on the edge of his bed, fingers on his chin, watching me intently as I described a towering pile of a hundred mattresses, a lonely prince, and a very sensitive princess.
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Mixed Bag of All Sorts
Small steps add up to a long breastfeeding journey
This should probably be my last Love New Blogs submission being as I started it around Christmas last year. I can’t believe I’ve been a blogger for 6 whole months! This post is my last of four posts for the Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt, and it coincides with this week being National Breastfeeding week. The theme of this week’s scavenger hunt posts is ‘Breastfeeding beyond the first month’. I thought I’d write about how my view of how long I would breastfeed for changed over the course of breastfeeding Andrew.
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Sleepless in Newcastle
The roundabout of parenthood
The major factor that comes into play is that our youngest daughter has an undiagnosed genetic condition. She has gone through every single test that can be performed to look at all of the possible syndromes and conditions they know about and they still come up blank.So we asked the geneticist if there were any chances that another child would have the same genetic condition and the response we got was to wait a few more years to see if they have found anything. They wouldn’t say whether there was or wasn’t a chance of it happening again.
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F.A.B at Forty
Smile & the World Smiles with you – or does it?
I grew up in what was a friendly town and friendly community. People talked to each other, even if they were strangers. They would smile and say hello, or actually the local phrase was “How you doing?”, not in a Joey Tribbiani way, more like “Howyadoing” as though it were one word. Shopkeepers were jolly and jokey and knew all of their regular customers. The customers were loyal and patient. People held open doors and got thanked for doing so.
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Violets Diary
The Tooth Fairy Isn’t Psychic
WARNING – This Post is Not to be read by or to small children!
OK, – caught!
A couple of days ago as B was going to bed he announced to Daddy that ‘the tooth fairy hasn’t been’.
Well, I have to admit, that the tooth fairy in this house has developed a bad habit of being late and has often had to cough up interest on these occasions. And believe me, the interest rates are equivalent to some of those dreadful loan shark companies!
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Mini Bookworms
Eric Carle July Linky
July is Eric Carle Month here at Mini Bookworms. We have a linky open for all Eric Carle related blog posts and Pinterest links below.
You can add anything relevant from craft, cookery, photo, review and written posts to Pinterest pin links – so dive in and let’s celebrate the wonderful Erci Carle!
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Mummy’s Little Stars
5 top tips to make your sticker charts work
So you’ve got your very own sticker chart from our site. But what do you do now!
I am sure you may even have tried the charts with your little one before. I often hear:
“Stickers charts don’t work with my kids.”
I tried them for a week but my kids got bored.”
There are things that can be done to make sure that sticker charts have ever chance of working with your kids. Try these ideas out first before you dismiss them as yet another fad.
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Dad etc
Boys and Girls are Different
As a father of 1 boy and 2 girls I feel qualified to state the obvious:
Boys and Girls are Different.
It has not always been fashionable to make this assertion. In the world of “Political Correctness Gone Mad” – the risk of saying that boys and girls are just plain different was a frankly dangerous thing to do. But then, that was to avoid the obvious conclusion that boys and girls are, indeed, different.
Here are my 5 reasons for stating the obvious.
1. Baby Boys Are Hungrier than Baby Girls
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3 Children and It
Secondary School – A Year 7 Survival Guide!
This time last year, DD1 was excitedly getting ready for her first visit to Secondary School. Being a naturally self-assured soul, she tends to take these things in her stride and therefore couldn’t contain her enthusiasm for leaving the Primary School she had been so passionate about for 6 years. I, on the other hand, spent the entire final half-term of Year 6 in emotional turmoil. Every ‘last’ event that took place, was heavily laced with a shot of nostalgia – last Sports Day, last School Play, last School Report, last Disco…..
Read more here:http://www.3childrenandit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/secondary-school-year-7-survival-guide.htm
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Yellow Fields Camping
Camping in the Lake District: The Private Camping Company
Imagine if you will, the perfect campsite. Beautiful views, campfires and a feeling of utter tranquility. Until someone rocks up and pitches thoughtlessly close to you, with all their mates.
The Lake District has some great campsites, I remember (dimly, it was a while ago!) some very happy days lounging next to Lake Coniston and exploring the sculpture trail at Grizedale. Unfortunately, like many beautiful places in the UK, the Lake District can feel overcrowded at times. Now, imagine the perfect campsite with one extra feature – no noisome, annoying ‘other people’! Yes, it is possible.
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Free Falling into 40
Who’s your favourite?
I’ve seen a few articles recently, mostly tongue in cheek ones, writing about whether parents have a favourite child. I’ve always maintained that you have different feelings, concerns and love for each child, it’s a particular shape of love that’s different for each one. However, I need to flip this on its head and ask: “do your children have a favourite parent?”
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Blue Kitchen Bakes
Cranberry & Cinnamon Muffins
In December last year I went a bit mad and bought loads of fresh cranberries because this is the only time of year you can buy them in the UK. I used quite a lot over Christmas making cranberry sauce and Nigella’s cranberry upside down cake from the Domestic Goddess book, by the way that cake is delicious and I highly recommend it. I was going through the freezer the other day to check for things that need eating because we are moving house soon and I found 2 packets of cranberries that I had stashed away in the freezer.
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The Chaos Queen
Tackling my clutter…to sell, donate or dump?
July 6, 2012
I am a girl on a mission. A girl with a plan. A girl with three big boxes.
Sell it.
Donate it.
Dump it.
This is definitely the easiest and quickest way to declutter I’ve tried. (Disclaimer: at the moment all my unwanted clutter is living in these boxes, I haven’t actually rid them from my home for good so it may take a little longer, but we’re half way there.)
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Hertfordshire Mummy
My Motivation Is Back
Join in The Friday Pick{ture Book}
A great way to spread the love (of books!)
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My Darlings and Me
My Motivation Is Back
Back in February when I started blogging I was a few weeks into my new diet. It was going well. Really well. I was losing on average 2lbs a week. By April I’d lost 16lbs and was getting nice comments from people who’d noticed that I’d lost some weight. I felt better, a bit more confident and had more energy.
Then Easter arrived and it all went a bit wrong. The Darlings had a ridiculous amount of Easter eggs and chocolate, seriously they’d still be eating them now if me and Hubby hadn’t helped out!
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F.A.B at Forty
To celeb or not to celeb – that is the question?
Reading the papers, magazines and internet news at the moment seems to be full of Adele being pregnant, Katy Perry spilling the beans on Russell Brand and of course the top story about the Cruises impending divorce.
I am so not interested in this stuff. Am I alone in not being a celebrity fiend?
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Team Lloyd
20 Week Scan
A 20 week scan. You can forget its actually called an Anomaly Scan – you just get excited about seeing your baby and how much they have grown and spend days (Ok the last 5 months) pondering over whether to find out the sex. Your last thought is on anything being found to be an anomaly.
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The Mummy Adventure
Wildlife Park Adventures
There are some definite advantages to being a stay at home mum and one of them is getting to go on little adventures when everyone else is at school or work. Today we went to Wingham Wildlife Park to see the Tigers and penguins and had beautiful luck with the weather. One of the best things about our day was that the zoo was so quiet, we could mooch at our leisure and enjoy the animals.
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Bake Yummy
Microwave Peach Melba Cake
This is going to be cooked in the microwave so you need a microwaveable dish to cook it in – not particularly high sided and about 20cm across.
So – in a bowl (it doesn’t have to be huge one, this isn’t a big mix) put the softened butter, sugar, baking powder, flour, eggs and vanilla extract and beat it all together using a hand mixer. You’ll get quite a thick mix – this is the plan! Beat in the chopped peaches and this will slacken it off a bit.
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