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Jan 31
2018

Goodbye kids hair accessory mess… hello clever storage solution

by Breezy

As a mum to three daughters (yes three!) I feel as though we have hair accessories coming out of our ears…. Everywhere I look I find a hair tie, clip and don’t even get me started on our collection of JoJo bows! So I have been in search of something that will keep all the accessories in one place but still be accessible for the girls to choose what they want to use. Up until now our collection of little boxes and containers was working but it seems to be growing and exploding with hair accessories as the birthdays roll by. As you can see by this image which shows how I currently store all their accessories.

Hair accessory collection keeps growing

Acrylic Stackable Holder

One thing I wanted to make sure was that I got something that could store those oversized JoJo Bows (thanks for making those cool again JoJo) and the headbands. That’s when I stumbled across this great clear acrylic storage solution by STORi on Fishpond.com.au

3 sections

The container can be split into 3 sections so you can stack it or have 3 separate storage sections, you can fit hairbrushes in the bottom section if you remove the top 2 layers. It cost $54 and shipping was free, so while it’s not the cheapest storage solution you can buy, I like the simplicity of it and how many accessories it can hold.

So there you have it, my OCD has been at it again. One thing I struggle with on a daily basis is the clutter that having 3 children can bring. I feel like I function better when everything is in it’s place and it makes life easier if everything that goes together is also stored together. Hope you enjoyed the read x

Sep 10
2016

In The Night Garden 2nd birthday party

by Breezy

In The Night Garden Party Theme

Our youngest daughter Rosie recently had her 2nd birthday. I find that 2 is a tricky age, in that they are not really into anything from a ‘theme’ perspective just yet. They are not diehard Frozen fans, wanting to be the next Elsa. It’s that stage before they can sit for more than 10 minutes or so without getting distracted. So when I thought about what theme to do for Rosie’s birthday there was really no other clear choice than, In The Night Garden (INTG).

Now i’m not sure what this show is really all about, it’s got words like Pinky Ponk, Ninky Nonk, Makka Pakka just to name a few. But hey, i’ll take these weird words because Rosie just loves the show and dances around the living room while she watches it. Iggle Piggle happens to be her favourite character, so there we have it, a party theme is born.

Themed Water Bottles

I have found that the easiest way to create a party theme is to simply create a table at the centre of the party that is themed, add some balloons and a cake and you have yourself a party theme.

Once you have your theme, it’s the small details that make the difference. These days you can easily find what you need to make signs and labels online. I found a lot of templates online for free, just by searching ‘in the night garden part theme’. They even had lots of items you can download from the INTG website. For the water bottles I downloaded the free template and got the labels printed at Office Works and used my paper cutter to trim them.

Iggle Piggle Cake

I had some plastic frames from IKEA that I had used at a previous birthday party and created some signs for the food using Canva which is an online design tool (it’s awesome, don’t get sucked into the vortex that is Canva, sooo addictive). I called the flavoured milk Pinky Ponk Juice, and made some other signs for other food I was serving. All the images I found online on the INTG website.

The hardest part of the organising was probably the cake. I started with a large slab of sponge cake from Woolworths (get amongst it Mums, it will change your life). I cut out a template on paper first to cut all the shapes for the cake. I also put a layer of fresh cream in the middle just to make it extra tasty. I thought I would try and be clever and use fondant, by 9pm the night before the party I gave up, the colour was awful and the taste was just as bad. So I had a glass of wine to recover from the first Iggle Piggle attempt then regrouped on the morning of the party and went with buttercream icing instead. Much easier and it tastes great! A little bit of blue colour and some red felt that I picked up from Spotlight for a couple of dollars and he was done, you have an Iggle Piggle cake.

I set up a colouring in table using templates that I also printed from the INTG website (it’s amazing how many free templates you have access to for theme parties) and also created a ‘Pin the blanket on Iggle Piggle’ using another FREE template. I got all my printing done at Office Works. It’s affordable and they offer the ‘trim’ option which is very useful.

One of my besties made gorgeous cookies as the party favour and I also handed out some bubbles, by 5pm the party was done and we all got to sit down enjoy a champas and celebrate our little girl turning 2.

Cookie Cutter Love

Pinky Ponk Juice AKA Flavoured Milk

Aug 28
2016

When your organising skills meet your kids special memories…

by Breezy

As a working mum, I am constantly juggling and balancing our lives, hoping to give everyone what they need while still being able to do what I’m passionate about.

I find that my super organised personality is serving me well lately with the limited time I have to dedicate to anything outside of our normal weekly routine. Creating memory boxes for the girls falls into this ‘outside of normal routine’ category. So this week, since I feel I am on top of everything at work and at home I gave myself a little project to get some of the clutter organised.

Do you ever wonder what you should do with all the certificates, pieces of art, ‘first drawing’ ‘first time they wrote their name’ ‘ first time they coloured in a picture’ ‘birthday cards’? Well I do! I have things filed away in lots of places and with my eldest starting school next year I felt there was no better time to start before all the report cards and everything else starts flowing in.

I dragged my partner in crime and the kiddies to Office Works on the weekend and picked up all these goodies to get these memory boxes started.

It didn’t require much, and you don’t even need the label maker (let’s be honest that’s the OCD in me loving that all the labels are the same, ha!). I got a plastic tub for both girls, they holder suspension files. I then picked a colour for each of the girls (who knew there were so many suspension file choices these days???) and I was done!

I labelled each folder from Birth through to Post School and threw in a General folder for… well you know all that general stuff 🙂

It was super easy, doesn’t take up much room and now I have all their achievements, memories and little creations all in one place that I can eventually give to them when they are settled in their own homes. Happy Memory Making!

Trendy Filing from Office Works

Dymo Label Maker