This Easy DIY Bassinet Mattress Protector is quick, easy and thrifty. This is a sure fire solution for keeping your bassinet mattress clean! You will need: A bassinet mattress Waterproof material Jersey fabric (20cm by 150cm) Dressmaking pins and 2 safety pins Elastic Coordinating thread Scissors Fabric pencil or marker Sewing machine What to do: Lay […]
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My children were recently invited to become part of a sticker club which we accepted on the whole because it was a simple formula and required me to invite 6 other children to join and cost me a packet of stickers and six stamps. But then I thought, what about creating a ‘Holy Card Club’
As I write this post many of the blogs and pages I follow, as well as the catalogues in my letterbox, are all full of ideas for making mums feel special on Mother’s Day. For my part I have also been drafting up some simple yet unique Mother’s Day gift ideas to upload to
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We are often asked to pray for special intentions and I felt as sincerely as I promised to pray for these intentions I may have forgotten a few from time to time. In order to keep track of them I started pinning small pieces of coloured paper to a cork board/white board that I used
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One of the best compliments I have ever received is this: ‘Your children have beautiful manners.’ It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to jump in the air, like they do in the car commercials, and scream ‘hooray’. Because, let’s face it, it means that your effort is paying off! As much
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I’ve been called a lot of things in my life some nice, some not so nice and mostly true, but more recently I was taken aback by two comments on one morning by two lovely religious sisters independent of each other. Last week was the first week of the school holidays which means that
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You might have noticed that the latest catalogues are presently full of garden tools, seeds, bulbs and the like. This is because autumn is a very busy season in the life of a gardener, no matter their aptitude, that sets up the beauty of a spring garden in bloom. Autumn provides cooler weather in
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My husband and I have been married for six and a half years now and just over a year ago we decided to move off the family farm as my husband was given a career opportunity that excited him intellectually. My husband now manages an agricultural branch in my hometown. He has four employees
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SpottyWot and DottyWot might be fictional characters on the ABC2 show ‘The WotWots’ but there are certainly similarities between the cute aliens and my four beautiful children. I kid you not. Of course, the characters are very much modelled on inquisitive children so you might say it’s not that much of a stretch to
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‘Mary did you know’ is a Christmas song that has divided Christians with its questions posed to the Virgin Mary about her knowledge of the redemptive mission of Our Lord. This Advent, I tried my hand at a less theologically divisive version, instead focusing on the idea of Our Lady meditating – pondering – on her role in our salvation.
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