This week’s family beat is the thrumming staccato life of entrepreneurial mum of two, Tessa White. Tessa owns Down That Little Lane, which she manages full time from home around the kiddos. My aspiration in life is to be happy, healthy and comfortable. I LOVE to exercise, I love to walk my dog and just hang out…
Wondering what to do with all the kids’ artwork!? {giveaway!}
What seems like two millennia go (but was actually only two years, but let’s face it, two years online is worth at least 2000 years in real life) I wrote a post about stylish ways to display your kids artwork. Now, at the time the kids were all small (that is to say they were today’s…
Shopping but not shopping
Since I’m part of the Down That Little Lane blogger family*, every now and then I get to put together a DTLL newsletter. It’s the most therapeutic thing I do each quarter. Shopping, but not shopping is a rather wonderful thing. But not as good as shopping… Is it because I’m a coveter? I see…
Teach me how to work around my family
‘Teach me how to do something I’m rubbish at’ is a series that encourages the clever clogs wearers of the world to show us less clever types how to do the things we’ve always wanted to do. These last school holidays made me more aware than ever that I cannot seem to do work and look…
Statistically speaking, just very quietly
I remember receiving our first-ever ‘blue book’ at the hospital, day one of motherhood. The nurse showed me through all the helpful information, the areas for recording milestones, height, weight, head circumference. “Why is head circumference so important?” I asked. “Big head, big brains; little heads, we just take them away right now,” she joked….
Cool giveaway: Quint Design ‘in my words’ tram scroll
This week I hosted a newsletter for Down That Little Lane, oh yes I did! Now, basically what that meant was I got to go ‘shopping’ at all the fab little boutiques on that dear little lane and pick out all the stuff I really, really wanted to buy. Ah, virtual shopping, how I love…