I don’t know about you but I’m generally a bit of a scrooge when it comes to elaborate gift wrapping. Hours spent on decorations and bunting and garlands and spray painting pine cones that will be used every year – YES. Hours spent on wrapping a present that will end up being ripped apart and […]
We’re home from our annual framily Christmas weekend away. Every year for the past couple of years we have taken a couple of days to head away somewhere with our pals and their kiddos. Nowhere fancy, nowhere far – just a few days to switch off and be together. Each year we grow in number, adding […]
Well hello there beautiful people! I had the afternoon to myself on Saturday and made the ginormous mistake of going to the shopping centre to pick something up. HUGE MISTAKE. It was like all of the people of Co. Armagh were sent a text to say Christmas had been bumped up a few weeks and the […]
Merry Christmas everyone! Festivities peaked yesterday and we are all nursing our food hangovers in the Wiggy house today. I have loved the build up to Christmas this year. For a while in my 20’s I was over it but now that Levi is becoming more aware of Christmas being a special time, the nostalgia […]
I spent all of last night winging together a DIY advent calendar for our family. It involved loo rolls, candy striped party bags, origami envelopes, jute string and a shed load of washi tape. It wouldn’t be fair to call this a tutorial of any kind, mainly because I made it up as I went along […]
6 weeks until Christmas. SIX. WEEKS. I’m not a Christmas frenzy-type person, but I do love an excuse to deck the halls and be extra thoughtful about the people I love. While potty-training (which has taken a turn for the worse, I’m afraid) and the unpredictable weather has kept us slightly more housebound, I’ve been […]
Mel Wiggins 