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Tulip tips

Being the daughter of a tulip farmer (yes, really) and having grown up on a tulip farm (acres and acres of flowers complete with a Dutch windmill), I know a thing or two about tulips… Because we’re...

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Trolley Dolly

Sometimes someone comes up with a new concept that feels so logical and natural that it’s hard to imagine you ever lived without it… This is how I felt yesterday when I first went grocery shopping...

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Shopping made easier

To save on labour costs, many Italian supermarkets now allow regular customers to use a bar-code reader while shopping to scan their groceries. Once the shopping is done you return the reader to a...

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Savon de Marseille

Marseille as a town is not particularly known for its cleanliness, but one of its most famous products is the soap. Le savon de Marseille is a French institution. It has been around for a least 700...

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Baking Soda

This post is about the environment, money saving, muffins, clearing drains and a mother in sheer desperation due to 2 small children covered in chickenpox. You may wonder what all of these things have...

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Murchison-Hume

I can’t stop wiping my kitchen bench. Or my kitchen table. And mopping… I mopped twice yesterday. It all started with a trip to my local kitchen/home-wares shop ‘Roost’ in Malvern where I was searching...

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Hanging children’s art

We are moving home!  The new one is larger and, of course, better decorated. I have made the usual promise to myself (and my husband) to be more organised and to keep it tidier. So I’m on the lookout...

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Free Download from Homemade Happiness — for all of you!

You probably recall that for our latest Birthday Week I wrote about Homemade Happiness:  great downloadable deco kits for every birthday, holiday or other special occasion.  I’m really quite fond of...

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Moving house (with children) — 10 tips

We experienced again that moving house with a family is not an overnight job — it’s like giving birth, you sort of forget how painful it actually is!  The new house is very nice though, and room by...

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Third Drawer Down

I do appreciate a nice tea towel… and I’m fussy with mine. Perhaps it relates to my textile obsession.  Nonetheless, I like them to be made of good quality linen, aesthetically pleasing… and generally...

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A Supermarket find

I know it is a pretty hellish activity to do with kids but I love going to the supermarket and I love it when you find a new whizzy product.  A while back I discovered Method cleaning products — a...

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A quick word on Baker’s Twine

I have a bit of an obsession with baker’s twine.  I ordered 4 huge spools of it a few months ago and I am looking around for more. Now I’m no crafty, but even I can think of a million uses. In fact,...

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Retro-inspired Personalized Lunchboxes

These gorgeous personalised lunchboxes by Feterie are high on my birthday list for my children this year. With a bit of a retro-cool vibe, they are of lightweight tin construction and as functional as...

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donna hay kid’s magazine

I think the time has come to introduce my party bible! It is none other than the superb Donna Hay Kid’s magazine! What a treat! Eye-candy from the first to the last page; the photography is so...

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Home safety (and the Ouch! Box)

I was recently chatting with a friend and she told me that they had just spent the weekend making their house safer. Of course my interest was roused — what did they do that I should be doing?? Well,...

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TG Green Special Edition Mugs

Some people spend their life searching for the holy grail. I spend my life searching for the perfect mug. I was brought up with the belief that a cup of tea is a remedy to anything from a common cold...

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Cerise sur le gateau

I don’t know if you are the same but I have a drawer in my kitchen in which I stuff everything: instructions for the toaster (easily the most useless thing ever printed!), loose pieces of wire, pens,...

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Duralex Glasses

In a household of 3 clumsy girls (I can bank for the fact that clumsiness is indeed genetic), we need hardened utensils, that can survive a lot of rough and tumble. Thus, I am a big fan of Duralex,...

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Cachette — wonderful finds!!

Cachette is a new Anglo-French lifestyle concept store that has recently launched, and it is selling a gorgeous selection of homewares and children’s products. I love the artisan quality of it all, the...

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Landmade, for simple household items from France

One of the many advantages of living in a relatively small flat in Paris is that my storage space is limited, which in turn means that I  don’t accumulate a lot of useless stuff. (BTW, this actually...

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