Dutch blitz time

It is always lots of mess and fun when we paint at Seymour Street Toddler Group ….. especially when it is painting with hands!

Having stayed in such a perfect cape cottage on Cape Cod for 10 days, it was hard to imagine how our second destination would be any more pefect – but it is! Welcome to Concord, and our home for another 10 days. It is a beautiful historic home (1876!) which has been extended sympathetically and…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

I will start today with a digital scrapbook layout I created for my neice for her 3rd birthday. I love these boxes by Paint the Moon. All credits can be found here. I am joining in with Fun Monday today for the first time. This week’s Fun Monday is easy, Mariposa is hosting and asking…

We are fully in the midst of the madness of the pre-Christmas week – by Christmas Eve we will have attended 6 carol services and the kids will be at 5 parties. Last night Sarah had her 10th birthday party – a Pyjmama Party which included a Bratz DVD and the making of purple mini…

We usually arrange our home exchanges through www.homeexchange.com So far in the last few years we have been to Dublin, Boston & Cape Cod, Galway, France and Donegal. This summer however, we have arranged a swap with an old school friend of mine, who now lives in an historic old mill in the Cotswolds. It…