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My Dad’s Wise Words
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My Dad’s Wise Words

It’s father’s day yesterday, the 2nd year without my dad.

I lost my dad 22 months ago and it has been the most heart-wrenchingly painful, confusing time. Grief never leaves you, it is consuming and suffocating and… numbing - it changes you. 

Amongst all the pain and grief, I have many fond memories, many happy ones, ones that make me smile. 

My dad was always good at energising me but at the same time keeping me grounded, he did this in many ways, and one-way would be from his wise words.

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5 Ideas For Designing a Sitting Room From Scratch
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5 Ideas For Designing a Sitting Room From Scratch

Designing a sitting room from scratch is an exciting yet overwhelming task. The opportunity to create a new space for connecting with your family and friends doesn’t always come, so it’s important to take this chance to design something that is truly special. It might seem like a nerve-wracking ordeal, what with the costs involved, but don’t fret as this article will give you some design ideas in coming up with the perfect sitting room for your household.

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Complete Your Kitchen Renovation with These Must-Have Accessories
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Complete Your Kitchen Renovation with These Must-Have Accessories

Kitchen renovations are nearly always big projects. They are arguably one of the most time-consuming, expensive, and stressful rooms in the entire house to renovate, especially if the renovation involves gutting things down to the bones. So as the end draws near, and the kitchen is just about done, it’s normal to want to just wrap it all up and start enjoying the space. Before you do that however, there are a few must-have accessories that could really add those finishing touches. Let’s take a closer look.

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Schleich Club Hannah’s Guest Horses with Ruby The Dog Review
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Schleich Club Hannah’s Guest Horses with Ruby The Dog Review

We received the Schleich Hannah’s Guest Horses with Ruby The Dog for review. This set is the perfect addition to Summer’s evergrowing Schleich Horses collection she has.

The Hannah’s Guest Horses with Ruby the Dog set has to be put together (you have to build the paddock and dog house), there are instructions included and I found I was able to put the parts together very easily. When it was up, it look fab.

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Schleich Dinosaurs Review
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Schleich Dinosaurs Review

Summer’s learning all about dinosaurs at school as there themed topic, and she loves coming home to tell me what she learnt, her favourite part is talking about Mary Anning, the English lady who found fossils, as Summer loves to tell me: “she is one of the greatest fossils hunters on earth and she lived like a thousand years ago”. Although, yes Mary Anning is one of the greatest fossil hunters, she didn’t live a thousand years ago…

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Teenie Tiny Toes interactive dolls from Flair PLC
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Teenie Tiny Toes interactive dolls from Flair PLC

Summer was pretty excited to be reviewing Teenie Tiny Toes dolls. She’d seen them online, and loves toys that offer an interactive and fun experience/play time, thus, she couldn’t wait to get them out of the box to play with.

These Teenie Tiny Toes dolls measure a tiny 11cm from head to toe, perfectly fitting in the palm of little hands.

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Little Brian Paint Sticks and Fabric Paint Sticks
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Little Brian Paint Sticks and Fabric Paint Sticks

We were sent a 12 pack of Fabric Paint Sticks, and a 24 pack of Paint Sticks.

Fabric Paint Sticks

If you child is a budding fashion designer like my Summer, then they are going to love the Little Brian Fabric Paint Sticks set. The set includes 12 vibrant colours of fabric paint sticks and are virtually mess free.

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Oregon Scientific Smart Globe Myth
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Oregon Scientific Smart Globe Myth

Oregon Scientific Smart Globe Myth

The Oregon Scientific Smart Globe Myth is a globe with an interactive base. It features 12 constellation stories, 10 fairy tales, and a whooping 69 Earth facts! It also features nights mode, where you press a button and the globe turns into the nights sky displaying the constellations and stars, it simply looks stunning.

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BABY born RC Scooter and helmet review
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BABY born RC Scooter and helmet review

We were sent the BABY born RC Scooter and helmet both to review. These are a great addition to Summer’s ever growing collection of BABY born accessories, and she loves to spend hours playing with them, interacting with them, learning from them through play. Summer is really into her dolls at the moment, and I knew she would love the RC Scooter for her BABY Born Sister doll.

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Moonlite Storybook Projector Review
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Moonlite Storybook Projector Review

What is Moonlite?

Moonlite is a storybook projector for your smartphone that utilises your phones light to project beautiful story images onto the wall.

We received the gift pack, which includes the projector, an activation code used to enter in the Moonlite app and 5 story reels: Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks, The Ugly Duckling and Sago mini on Vacation.

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Zoomer Hungry Bunnies Review
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Zoomer Hungry Bunnies Review

Zoomer Hungry Bunnies

Zoomer Hungry Bunnies is a interactive robot bunny with fluffy ears and tail which wiggles, that also eats paper and poops it out! His eyes light-up and his arms move; he also makes lots of noises and chomps when eating his paper food.

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Disney's Vampirina Toy Range Review
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Disney's Vampirina Toy Range Review

Disney Junior's Vampirina celebrates friendship and difference. The series follows the story of a young vampire named Vampirina Hauntley who’s recently moved with her family from Transylvania to Pennsylvania to run the Scare B&B, a guest house for monsters.

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PJ Masks Super Moon Adventures Toy Range Review
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PJ Masks Super Moon Adventures Toy Range Review

Summer was a very lucky girl to be sent a bundle of some amazing PJ Masks toys to try out.

The box was huge when it arrived, and to say Summer was a lil’ excited is an understatement. A PJ Mask fan, she was over the moon and a tad bit excited. We were sent this bundle of toys in preparation for the PJ Masks Super Moon Twitter party! Yay, we love Twitter parties, if you have not joined in one in the past, then you must - lots of fun and lots of toys to win.

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Casdon Chip 'n' Pin Till and Shopping Basket review
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Casdon Chip 'n' Pin Till and Shopping Basket review

Summer loves role play, thus, she especially loves playing with her different Casdon toys. From her cleaning trolley, to her mini Dyson, to her Self-service supermarket - Summer spends hours playing with her Casdon toys.

We were recently sent both the Casdon Chip 'n' Pin Till and Casdon Shopping Basket for review.

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Zuru X-Shot Bug Attack Review
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Zuru X-Shot Bug Attack Review

Zuru X-Shot Bug Attack Review

Jacob’s passion is his toy guns, and he has many. He’s collected his toy guns over the years and loves playing with them, and practising on different targets etc,. So when we were invited to review the different Zuru X-Shot Bug Attack guns I knew Jacob would be really excited to give them a try.

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Schleich Horse Club Review New Horses & Riders
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Schleich Horse Club Review New Horses & Riders

Summer has an array of Schleich toys, but these are her first from the new horses and riders range - she has fallen in love with them. She can't stop playing with them, and takes her horses with her everywhere.

All the horses each come with a rider, a rubber saddle, bridle and reins, all of which are fitted to the horse - the saddles are colour co-ordinated with their rider.

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