From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Children’s Activities In Melbourne For November

October 31, 2008

There is so much going on in our lovely city at the moment, that I thought I would collate a list of my highlights of children’s activities in Melbourne, for the month of November.
We have a couple of these events booked already, which I am looking forward to and will post some photos [...]

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Christmas Planning – Homemade Christmas Gift Tags

October 30, 2008

It is now 8 weeks until Christmas. According to my Christmas Preparation Plan this week I was going to be working on updating my Christmas Card list. The great thing about having the Christmas Plan is that I am aware of what activities I need to do and roughly in what order. [...]

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10 Family Meals That The Children Will Love

October 28, 2008

I have a lot of discussions with other parents on the topic of meal time and about getting smaller children to eat a healthy meal. There are a number of things that we do as a family to make meal time more enjoyable, but I think the most important from that list is [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – Best Banana Cake Recipe

October 26, 2008

I had three bananas turning a shade of black in the fruit basket today, which inspired me to make this fabulous banana cake recipe. It takes five bananas to make the cake as it is a very large banana cake. I had previously put some aging bananas in the freezer, so I could [...]

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Supporting Quality Blogs

October 25, 2008

The ever resourceful Problogger tweeted about this project going on in the blogosphere earlier today. It is being run at Chuck Westbrook’s Blog and is aimed at solving the problem of Blogs With Great Content and No Readers.
In brief participants like myself will:
1. Join the group for the project.
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Christmas Planning – Homemade Bath Salts

October 23, 2008

This post is part of my series on handmade Christmas Gifts. Instructions for the other items can be found here:

Handmade Fabric Covered Notebooks
Handmade Fabric Necklaces
Homemade Works Of Art

The countdown continues – 9 weeks until Christmas. My countdown is naturally of a planning nature and I am working through a Christmas Preparation Plan [...]

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Children’s Pets

October 22, 2008

We have a beautiful border collie dog named Millie. Millie is now a much quieter dog than she used to be as she has passed her 13th year. She has always been brilliant with the children and other than her slight tendency to bark at things in the sky, she is also a [...]