smiling planet

Friday, October 22, 2010





It's getting ridiculously close to Christmas. I'm starting to get a little worried, as I'm sure last year I was really very organised and thought a lot about gifts very early on. This year has been kind of busy and hectic, and now here we are about seven weeks out from Christmas!

So of course I've started trawling my fave places on the Internet and I found these gorgeous little bowls and plates at State of Green. These are Smiling Planet plates and bowls that each have an artistic design on them with an earth friendly message. Even better, they are made from 100% recycled high grade polypropylene plastic, contain no BPA, no lead, no toxic inks, no phthalates and no PVC, so completely environmentally friendly. The designs are printed in such a way that they can't be scratched off and they plates and bowls are top rack dishwasher safe too.

I really love the simplicity of them and the style of the illustrations and designs. They are also (I think) reasonably price at $18.95 at State of Green. I'm very tempted to head off and grab a few for family and friends! Will definitely be bookmarking for my gift purchases.

fiesta time!


It was Zoe's birthday fiesta party on the weekend. I think I'm still recovering....

Pop over to my other blog Lovely Little Parties to see some pics of our fabulous day.

facing the weekend

Friday, October 15, 2010



Here we are, it's Friday again. The wheels keep turning.

I'm madly organising a belated family party for Zoe on Sunday. It should be lots of fun! So as much as I'd love to be relaxing, from tonight, I will be shopping, baking, crafting decorations, blowing balloons, tidying, tidying again, and falling in a heap when it's all over. I promise to save you a piece of the V8 cake I've ordered from Adriano Zumbo........NOT!

Keep smiling. 

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mess mess mess

Tuesday, October 12, 2010


We get very messy around here everyday. Whether it's messy eating, messy craft, messy playing in the garden, messy toileting from the under fours in this house! We're forever washing our hands. Josh loves it most of all because he gets to play with the taps and the water at the same time and loves to do the soap by himself. Since he has started his own hand washing routine we go through so much soap as he pumps so much out each time!

Over the last few weeks we've been very lucky to have been sent lots of goodies. One lot of goodies has been from Dettol who delivered us their new No-Touch Hand Wash System to try out. Along with it came a lovely finger painting kit for Josh and Zoe to try and get really messy so we could give the new hand wash system a real good workout!

Josh loved every moment of it. Since he's started preschool he has been enjoying painting and crafting at home a whole lot more so he had great fun painting and getting his fingers dirty. Then I got to explain to him about how the new soap dispenser worked. He was totally fascinated and then wanted to put his hand under all the time just to watch the soap come out.

It's quite cool as it means you literally don't have to touch it to use it. There is a little sensor at the back that can tell when your hand is under and then a little blob of soap comes and off you go washing! Thankfully there is also a switch at the back that lets you turn it off. Very handy when you want to curb your preschoolers fascination once he's washed his hands thoroughly!

We received the cucumber splash scented soap and I loved it! It made me want to wash my hands more too. Give it a go if you haven't! I had seen it in the shops a few times and was tempted, so I really appreciate Dettol sending one over! I think we'll get lots of use out of it and it certainly helps entice the kids to keep clean.

bedroom makeover part #2

Friday, October 8, 2010


Remember my first bedroom makeover post? It didn't really look very complete. I guess it still doesn't but I've now added some cushions to the bed and I think it looks a lot more grown up and finished. Now all we need is some wall art.

Any ideas? I found some Etsy artworks at one point but now I've gone off that idea and was thinking of paying a friend to paint a custom artwork to put up. My hubby has a few ideas and could probably use his graphic design skills to whip something up too. 

Let me know if you have any wall art inspiration for my room for me!

PS. Excuse the dodgy photo, my DSLR is AWOL at the moment so this was taken on my trusty iPhone!

at my house

Monday, October 4, 2010

I'm a little late with my post, but here's our day today at our house celebrating Zoe's second birthday.





Happy Birthday gorgeous, sweet girl. xo

Play along with 'at my' house here.

happy birthday baby girl


What a wonderful two years it's been. I can't believe you are two now. My big girl.

You've brought such joy to our lives, including your big brother who adores you and just wants to smother you in kisses and jump in your cot with you and make you laugh until you cry - literally sometimes!

Your are full of life and such a spirited, playful little girl. So very determined and headstrong already. Your giggles and the way you share little loving moments with your brother make my heart melt.

I wish you the happiest of birthdays, baby girl, and can only wish and pray that you have many more to come.

Love Mummy xoxo
 

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