{Sunday Roundup}

This week has flown by! I've been very busy with work at the start of the week, and then on Tuesday my dad & Jo arrived. I went along on Wednesday afternoon as usual to collect the kids from nursery with Jo (my dad was busy at a local golf shop getting fitted for new clubs!) and my littlest was shouting 'Jo' as soon as she saw us. It was lovely to see that she remembered Nanny Jo and Grandad as I hadn't prompted the kids that they were coming to stay.

We had a lovely few days enjoying the grandparents being around. Following a visit to the Museum of Rural Life on Thursday,  my son has talked and talked about the cow that he saw doing a poo. He was even acting out the event earlier today with his plastic farm animals!! You can see some more photos from our visit here.

My good friend Gemma was in Glasgow this week for her PhD viva voce (which she passed - yay!). We met for a drink on Tuesday night and she also popped into my house on Friday morning with her boyfriend to meet my kiddies, who were totally hyper!! I hadn't seen Gemma for 5 years and it was really nice to see her and catch up.

The weather has been a bit of a mixed bag... when is the nice weather going to appear, and stay?? When it's been dry we've been making the most of it and have been spending lots of time in the garden. I'm sure this time last year I was enjoying dinners out on the patio though!!

Have a peek at my competition that is currently running... you can win a set of beautiful fairy lights from Blaze On.

My new tumble dryer arrived...but getting it out of the polystyrene was not great :-/

I received some lovely #PostCircle mail with a gorgeous crotchet flower

The Enchanted Garden fairy lights I received from Blaze On

I received a goodie bag from King #Mojo

 

In keeping with my previous week's #SmittenSaturday post, I've been doing well with the running. I even managed to top the leader board, but it lasted all of one day!!

Please do join in with #SmittenSaturday - the linky is open each week from Saturday until Friday

Waiting patiently for another cow to poo!!

The sun came out, for all of 5 min! I ditched my North Face parka for my Ted Baker trench coat... but I'm now back in the parka!!

 

How was your week? Sx

{Competition: Win a set of Fairy Lights with Blaze On}

This competition has now closed but Blaze On are kindly offering a £3 discount for the first ten customers to buy lights at their website using the coupon code BLAZEONMUM. Happy shopping :-)

I discovered Blaze On fairy lights last year in my neighbour's gift shop, Velvet Moon. Brenda raved about the ethical company Blaze On and their ethos and I felt compelled to buy a set for my bedroom that I was redecorating at the time... you're never too old for fairy lights, right? I'm a major fan!

The purple & pink heart lights I bought :-)

There's just something magical about fairy lights...

So here's what I've learnt about Blaze On... The company sells ethically sourced fair trade goods that are hand-made by a small group of villagers in Thailand. They collaborate with around 20 home-run businesses which makes it possible for parents to support their families and educate their children. The company also has an admirable recycling policy - "Be kind, re-wind, pedal forward, recycle" - the packaging for the fairy lights is 100% recyclable and staff are even encouraged to use public transport and bicycles! In addition to the amazing range of fairy lights, they sell candles & tea lights, incense sets and beautiful paper mobiles.

One of the big selling points for me is that the warm-tone LED lights generate absolutely no heat so they are safe around children and soft furnishings and they also have 90% less energy consumption compared to alternative bulbs. Another bonus is that the bulbs are in a line rather than a loop and there is a decent cord length too which makes it easier to use them as a decoration for on a shelf, round a mirror (like in my bedroom) or over our antique pew!

Our fairy lights arrived the other day, much to the delight of my children...
"What's in the box mummy?" they shouted!
I said that it was a special surprise for them and we'd open the box and see...
Both of them were squealing with excitement and were desperate to plug in their fairy lights.
"They make me happy mummy, thank you" said the eldest.

I had picked a set of purple lights for my son, his favourite colour and after taking them upstairs to his bedroom, he then decided that he'd like to put them on the bench in the hallway (this is where we had our star fairy lights at Christmas you see!).

Here they are... aren't they gorgeous. He loved all the different shapes - circles, squares and triangles!

And for my daughter we selected a set of magical, multi-coloured bugs including butterflies, dragonflies, lady bugs, fireflies and bees. They are so pretty... the detail is rather wonderful.

*** Competition ***

Now here's your turn... Blaze On have given me a £30 gift voucher so that you can own a set of fabulous fairy lights. All you need to do is enter the Rafflecopter giveaway. 

Have a look at the Blaze On website, decide upon your favourite set of fairy lights (there's so much choice!) and leave a comment on this post. Easy! There are extra points for completing other actions on the Rafflecopter form.

Good luck :-)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Sorry, but this competition is open to UK entrants only. There is only one prize available.

We were gifted two sets of fairy lights for the purpose of this review. Opinions are as always my own.

{Sunday Roundup}

It's been a fairly quiet week. I ended up with the same bug that the littlest had (either that or a bit of a Crohn's flare) and was off work for a day whilst I rested. It's only now that I'm eating normally again as I felt rather nauseous even looking at food... not like me!

The tumble dryer broke, but a new one is winging it's way to me right now. So at least that's something that I can cross off my list! Was not good timing as I had a tonne of vomitus sheets to clean :-/

We visited a friend in Edinburgh for lunch this week and my son has been absolutely brilliant with the toilet training. No mistakes on Thurs, Fri, Sat or this morning before the kids went to their dad's house. We've managed to go out and about, do a long trip in the car etc and he's been a super star! Major proud mummy here!!

My son, or 'batman' as he wanted to be referred to, having a wander around Kelvingrove yesterday. Yes, he did save the girl (Barbie) but she seems to have lost her clothes in the process!!

Having a taste of mummy's (cold) cup of tea - yummy apparently!

Out with the Play-Doh

I didn't do Mrs M's meal planning Monday, as I just couldn't face writing about food but I did have some fish for the Fish is the Dish Healthy Happy Hearts campaign - read more about the challenge here

Building a rocket ship with a kit that my friend gave us.

We received some beautiful fairy lights from Blaze On for a review that will be going live this week, with a competition too.... watch this space :-)

How has your week been?

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