Review - Enchanted Forest & Friends Clothing for Children

The Enchanted Forest and Friends brand has been created by Scottish husband and wife team, Bernie and Mariessa Devlin. I love the concept behind the range, which features a series of five forest friends: Zed Fox, Humbellina Bumblebee, Sirrell Squirrel, Bertie Bluetit and Miss Bun Bun.

"In the Forest a magical tree exists, with a secret door which lies slightly ajar showing a golden glowing light shining bright. Enter through this door and it leads to the Enchanted Forest, a magical world full of discovery, exploration and adventure. Beautiful flowers, gigantic trees, colourful mushrooms, sparkling lakes and enchanting sounds can be found."

The Forest Friends characters feature on the clothing, and we received the all over print short sleeve tunic for the littlest to test.

The littlest turns 4 years old this month but she's tall for her age; we had ordered the 4-5 year t-shirt which was the perfect size for her. The T-shirt has washed well and has become a firm favourite in the littlest's wardrobe.

Girls All over Print Short Sleeve Tunic Top, £13.99 (on sale just now at £10.99)

In addition to the T-shirt, we were also sent a Character Backpack... meet Miss Bun Bun:

Children's Character Backpack, £22

The concept of this backpack is great... the head can be used as a pillow, within the backpack is a blanket and there are detachable reins (which the littlest at nearly 4 years old does not need, but she liked pretending to be a baby!). My daughter fell in love with Miss Bun Bun immediately and has been wanting to wear her ever since she arrived. 

Miss Bun Bun 

We removed the blanket to put in some toys and special bits & pieces, but I think once it was emptier coupled with the heavy weight of the head meant that the backpack didn't sit very well on my daughter's back. Perhaps we needed to spend more time adjusting the straps, but as we reduced the straps to pull it tighter into her body, the rabbit ended up folding in two a bit. 

For me, the backpack perhaps has a few design flaws but the idea is fantastic and my daughter certainly adores it.

Which is your favourite character? I think mine is Zed Fox!

We received two items from Enchanted Forest & Friends to test and review. As always, opinions are honest and are my own.

Interiors - A Woodland Inspired Master Bedroom

Unfortunately it looks like I'm going to have to redecorate my master bedroom. Thankfully I've not really done anything with this room since moving in, but it looks like there's water getting in (from the chimney) and it's made the wallpaper wet, stained and I've got mould growing now. Just what I need!! First up is to obviously resolve the chimney issue, and once that's done the plan will be to strip the wallpaper and get the room itself sorted. I haven't budgeted for this and it's come at a bad time with Christmas around the corner, but I'll do what I can to get everything ship-shape!

In the meantime, I've been planning in my head what I'd like the room to look like when it's all finished. I can dream right?! I thought I'd share with you here my ideas...

I have a thing for foxes, so I thought I would make plans for a woodland-inspired master bedroom that would allow me to include a few foxy items!

Colour-scheme wise I thought I'd go for grey (because my bed is grey), maybe a bit of slate blue and a pop of orange.

Orange Accents

I have already updated my bed linen and managed to find a reasonably priced bedding set from Matalan that is grey with a leaf design (I can't find it on their website, so I don't have a link to share with you - sorry). This sort of ties in with my forest theme. I had ideally wanted trees or bark image on my duvet but it was proving to be too expensive.

My thoughts were that I'd get a fox print for the wall as well as a few forest or orange-coloured prints or paintings...here are my initial finds:

Fox print from Etsy

Birch Forest Oil Painting from Etsy (DLaurasArt)

And then buy a couple of fox cushions and orange throw cushions for the bed.

Fox pillow from Etsy

Throw cushion inspiration

Watch this space to see how I get on!