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How to Protect Your Outdoor Christmas Decorations
Continue ReadingNothing brings the holiday spirit to your house like the perfect outdoor Christmas decorations. Decorating your home is one of the best activities to enjoy with your loved ones during the holiday season. With colourful lights and shiny Christmas trees all around you, this time of the year can make you feel like you’re a […]
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Time to get Christmassy! Queensgate sets the stage for its ‘Festive Fiesta’
Continue ReadingQueensgate Shopping Centre is kicking off this magical season with their ‘Festive Fiesta’ on Saturday 17 November. Families will see the centre come to life at 10.30am with this complete magical takeover. It’s time to get excited, our ‘Festive Fiesta’ is unlike anything we’ve done before,” said Centre Director at Queensgate, Mark Broadhead. The regional […]
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The Secrets to Not Overspending for Christmas
Continue ReadingAs Christmas quickly approaches, your bank balance may be starting to look dire. Every year we try our best to spoil our loved ones and get them gifts they will really appreciate, but the expense of it all can mean that January seems like a very long month. If you’re tired of scrimping and saving […]
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A Fairytale Christmas at Doddington Hall
Continue ReadingThere is one aspect of Christmas that I look forward to every year and that’s our annual festive day out with our lovely friends MumtoC and family. This year MumtoC had spotted ‘A Fairytale Christmas at Doddington Hall‘ on the outskirts Of Lincoln. Online it looked beautiful and wasn’t expensive either. We paid £28.50 for […]
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Christmas with Poundland #CrackingValue
Continue ReadingI am no stranger to Poundland, tending to go there once or twice a month to top up the home shopping, buying brands names at, you guessed it £1!! (Although you can also buy some great value items for a little bit more). I make big savings on crisps, biscuits, snacks, cereals and household cleaning. […]
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Have a Cracking Christmas with Paperchase
Continue ReadingPaperchase is a shop that I have loved for a long time, not only do they sell gorgeous stationery which is perfect for a stationery hoarder like me but they have great gifts too. Little Bean is following firmly in her Mummy’s footsteps and will always ask to go in there when we have a […]
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Getting ready for Christmas with John Lewis #QBlogger
Continue ReadingIf there is one shop I look forward to visiting over the Christmas period it’s John Lewis, it’s a shop I remember visiting in my childhood with my Mum and my Nanna, I can remember looking at all of their Christmas decorations (and usually getting static shocks off them too). John Lewis just always manage […]
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Christmas Day 2015
Continue ReadingAll that preparation, all that anticipation and Christmas is over before you know it. Thankfully, ours was a lovely relaxed family day. The children woke at 6am and screeched with excitement when they saw presents spilling out of their stockings and further piles of presents in the lounge. By 8am the first wave of presents […]
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It’s all about the Christmas decorations . . .
Continue ReadingOohh Christmas! I love Christmas – the gifts, the music, the mince pies, the cookies and assorted Christmas treats, and most of all – the decorations! All sparkly and shiny and glittery and pretty and did I mention sparkly? I have a pretty big family – 5 brothers and sisters with their assorted children, 3 […]
