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Lovely Links – Garden Pretties…

February 4, 2012

I think I may have an unhealthy obsession with bird houses…. I need a collection of these. I’m pretty sure I could make a tea pot bird house. We’ve grown gourds before but never done anything with them. And I’ve just decided what the kids are getting for Christmas next year! I am trying to [...]

20 Last Minute Gifts You Can Make For Your Kids.

December 17, 2011

Looking for some last minute gift ideas for the kids in your life? Lets get a little crafty and avoid the shops, here’s a list of ideas to help you do it! 1. Download some audio books and put them on an mp3 player, or burn them to a CD. 2. Make your own colouring [...]

Twelve Things to Cook This Christmas.

December 10, 2011

I don’t know why, but I always get the urge to bake things at this time of year. It’s a little crazy considering it has just started to get hot here, and we are crazy busy, so standing in front of a hot stove isn’t exactly relaxing, but still…. there is something about Christmas that [...]

Six Eco Friendly Gifts to Make and an Itty Bitty Greenie Competition!

December 3, 2011

Are you making your Christmas gift list? Do you wish you could give some more eco-friendly gifts? Here are some ideas for eco-friendly gifts you can make. Three ideas you can make for the kids, and three ideas the kids and you can make for adults. For the Kids… Tree House. We made this tree [...]

Ten Christmas Decorations to Make.

November 26, 2011

Have you decorated for the holidays yet? At The Pickle Farm, we don’t break out the Christmas decorations or put up the Christmas tree till the first weekend in December. So we’ve still got a week or so to figure out how we are going to tackle the problem of Christmas tree Vs climbing chaos-making [...]

5 Fab Free Audio Books for Kids.

November 12, 2011

My big kids love listening to audio books. We listen in the car, on ipods while waiting at appointments, and while falling asleep at night. We have a small selection of audio books on CD and have borrowed CDs from the library, but there is an amazing selection of spoken stories online, many of them [...]

Five Bloggers’ Favourite Songs, Plus One.

November 5, 2011

For my last day of guest posting I have asked some awesome bloggers to share their favourite songs… Glowless – Where’s My Glow “I’m a massive fan of Adele and while checking out her video clips on Youtube the other week I found an amazing parody by The Key Of Awesome. If you’re a fan [...]

Lovely Links – Blogging People You Should Know.

October 22, 2011

So I got over my guilt and had a fabulous day at the Problogger Event yesterday. My head is filled with information and ideas and especially people. I listened to, learnt from and met some wonderful people. Here are a few fabulous blogging people that you should definitely check out… Sonia Simone – Remarkable Communications [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Print and Fold Gift Boxes.
December 12, 2011

I think I am done with my Christmas shopping…. hopefully… maybe. We still have a few hand made gifts to finish off but I don’t think I need to go near another shopping centre (well except for food) till after Christmas. So now that the gift are all organised I need to wrap them. This [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Jar Labels and a Strawberry Jam Recipe.
December 5, 2011

Lots of rain + some sunshine = bucket loads of strawberries! Over the past few weeks we have had strawberries coming out of our ears. We have made muffins, and smoothies and cupcakes, and pie and we’ve eaten so many fresh strawberries I am actually kinda over them (I never thought that would happen), but [...]

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