Mummy Be Beautiful

2016 has flown by, I can't believe that in the next couple of days we are heading into 2017. Looking back there have been many challenging and fun moments of 2016, within the world at large, personally and blog wise.

2016 saw my eldest son head into secondary school,  we attended a stunning family wedding and my hours at my long term job also changed, I'm also working an additional job, which has been tiring but extremely rewarding, it's amazing how positive feedback can lift and elevate you, it's nice to feel appreciated and know that you are making an impact. 2016 also saw me step up and take on a community role as a local committee member which has been another eye-opening experience that I'm enjoying. (although I'm sure they chose me as I'm such a good moaner).


Blogging wise it's been another great year working with some amazing people and brands, full of great experiences with the family and many great memories that we can fondly look back on, it's hard to pick a favorite as each day and experience has been amazing in its own right, I certainly feel blessed to experience so many great things with those that I love, no matter how big or small. I've defiantly enjoyed the challenge of running a blog, family, working and committing myself to the local community, sometimes I actually think I thrive on the manic-ness of it all.

Life can seem tough at times, and like most I've had some up and downs in 2016, but the lessons that I have learned stand me in good stead for the future. I'm certainly grateful for some of the missed opportunities that didn't happen knowing that sometimes the things that we think we want to happen, are not always for the best thing for our life at that time!!! For me my kids have always been my first priority and come before my job and career. every cloud really does have a silver lining! it's just sometimes we don't see it, and we need to step back and see things for what they really are, I'm grateful I have been blessed to see the blessings even when things do go wrong!!! or in this case right.


I'm sure next year will have some challenges as well as more amazing experiences.Thank you to all of my lovely readers and the supportive blogging communities.Thank you to all of the clients, brands and press relations people that I have worked with over the past year. But the biggest THANK YOU is to my much-loved family for putting up with me and my crazy ways x

We adore Disney On Ice, so to get the opportunity to watch Disney On Ice Frozen was absolutely amazing, we loved the Disney Frozen movie, so to see the magic of the movie on the ice was a spectacular experience.


We were in awe as we taken through the main elements of the story, watching the loving, yet at time distant relationship between the two royal sisters, Anna and Elsa. It's Elsa's coronation day, but Elsa soon finds herself revealing her hidden powers, which then forces her to leave Arendelle, Anna set off on her journey to find her sister and bring her back home, but Elsa is determined to remain free.


On Anna's journey, she meets Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, along with our all time favourite character the hilarious snowman Olaf. It was stunning as our favourite characters from the movie came to life in their beautifully designed costumes and elegant skating, which consisted of elegant lifts spins, completae of course the mesmerising songs from the movie. There was something really special watching this Disney On Ice Frozen, simply perfect and entertaining throughout.


Disney On Ice Frozen gives Disney Frozen fans the chance to watch our favourite Disney story live on ice. Disney On Ice Frozen is now in London's O2 arena until the 30th December, visit the Disney On Ice website www.disneyonice.co.uk.

Whitworths has launched a cool #ShareTheLove campaign, sharing the perfect children's story about The Cake That Made Christmas, a fun downloadable e-book. the book is beautifully illustrated, sharing the story of baking and sharing your creations with loved ones, and as it's Christmas what a nicer time of the year to share a delightful story. We love spending time together and baking is always a great way to connect and have some much-needed fun.


What a really love about the story is that it's a book about making someone happy through baking, and there is also a delicious Whitworth's Cranberry and Almond cake recipe inside the e-book, to help you make the perfect cake this Christmas.


The Cake That Made Christmas can be read online shared or downloaded.  You can find the link to the e-book here www.whitworthsprizes.com

This Friday 14th is Christmas Jumper Day, so to celebrate Cadbury has created a cool tasty looking festive jumper knitted entirely from chocolate.


The festive jumper was created by food artist Jacqui Kelly, and will go on public display at Cadbury World in Birmingham, it took three people over 80 hours to make, and used over 320 metres of chocolate ‘wool’, which was hand rolled and twisted together to create a cool knitted effect. Featuring the iconic Cadbury logo, the jumper features a winter wonderland scene and is adorned with some of the tastiest Cadbury Christmas treats, including the Cadbury Dairy Milk Mousse Snowman and Cadbury Dairy Milk Snow Bites.


The festive chocolate jumper looks amazing, but if you would like a more wearable version of this stunning jumper, then check out Cadbury's limited edition line of Cadbury Christmas jumpers. My son adores his cosy yet cool Cadbury woolly hat and scarf.

To celebrate the release of the movie Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, we were given some cool goodies, which will make the perfect gift for Fantastic Beasts fans, from a cool book from Scholastic, a  Panini sticker album and stickers, cool wall calendar from Danilo, and must have posters from Pyramid and GB Posters. The kids especially loved the gadget decals from Paladone.


Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them  - A fabulous magical adventure by J.K. Rowling, long before Newt’s book became required reading at Hogwarts, Newt finds himself surrounded by danger when magical creatures escape causing destruction. We are really looking forward to watching this movie its sounds amazing.


We all loved the Character Guide which gave us a great insight into the characters from the movie, the boys absolutely loved the decals and had lots of fun decorating all the gadgets around the home and they look rally cool on the back of my mobile phone.

Christmas is the perfect time for us to all spend time together and enjoy each others company, Sainsbury's has just launched a delightful Christmas Advert on the very same theme of families spending time together over Christmas. The Greatest Gift  advert is a cool animation featuring vocals by James Corden that tells the story of Dave, a hard-working loving Dad, who realises that the greatest gift he can give this Christmas is his time, Dave has a fantastic idea after seeing a gingerbread man in his daughter's bedroom.

Sainsbury’s have partnered with Great Ormond Street Hospital to help families be together as over 50% of children treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital are from outside of London, so they are raising money to fund accommodation that means patients’ families can stay close by in difficult times. So if you buy The Greatest Gift animation kit £2 donation or if  you buy a Gingerbread Dave 50p from every one sold goes to the Great Ormond Street Charity

The Greatest Gift film kit can be purchased online or in store for £5, as can the Gingerbread Dave for £1.

We were delight to head to the Odeon in London's Leicester Square to watch the  movie Sing from the makers of Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets, Sing animated movie is a fun entertaining feet tapping feel good movie, Following Buster Moon the owner of a theatre, determined to put his theatre back on the map, Buster Moon comes up with a plan to host a singing competition with a grand prize, and soon animals from the entire town turn up to take part in the competition.


Buster selects five finalists, Mike a smooth-talking mouse (Seth MacFarlane), Meena a extremely shy teenage elephant (Tori Kelly), Rosita pig a loving mum who wants a break from her 25 piglets (Reese Witherspoon), and a young gangster gorilla Jonny who's defiantly not looking to follow in his father's footsteps (Taron Egerton), along with punk star porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson) who ditches her arrogant boyfriend and go it alone.



This fun movie is full of catchy tunes and fun characters, each with their own story to tell, a story of following your dreams and not giving up.


We had the most amazing morning, joining in with some cool Sing themed activities, Sing is an awesome movie and thoroughly entertaining, we loved it. Sing features over 65 hit songs that you will most defiantly know and love.

We were really excited to head to an exclusive VIP skating session with the Disney On Ice skaters at the Tower of London ice rink, we were looking forward to learning a few skills as well as meeting the stars of the show who bring Disney On Ice: Frozen to life.

Once we arrived we excitedly stepped out onto the ice, the kids were feeling rather confident, but I found it ever so hard to at first get my balance, after some good advice from the skaters, I was able to slowly make my way around the edge of the ice rink.

My son had some advice one to one with one of the skaters who walked him through some fun and practical skating skills.We had the most amazing time getting to practice and learn from the professionals.

After our skating session we were in for a real treat, as the stars of the show showed us some of their amazing moves, spins and lifts, and after trying ice skating for myself I'm in total awe just how amazing and skillful the Disney On Ice skaters are, so much so, that  more than ever I cannot wait to watch this year Disney On Ice Frozen at London 02 Arena. Dinsey On Ice Frozen is currently touring the UK, check out the following link and see when Disney On Ice is coming to your town, as huge fans of the Movie I certainly cannot wait to see the show.


Disney On Ice Frozen is appearing across the until the 30th December visiting Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Sheffield, and London. For all tour dates, visit the Disney On Ice website www.disneyonice.co.uk.

We were on a Mission last weekend, as we headed to Spy Missions is Croyden, we were really looking forward to the adventure ahead.


As we entered Spy Missions we were introduced to our guide who then told us our mission, which was to board the hijacked USN Steadfast Battle Cruiser stop the missile and save the day. We were lead by our guide through a series of different rooms, each which had a challenging puzzle and adventure, we had to solve puzzles to get clues and codes to help complete our mission and stop the missile attack.


There were lots of tunnels to crawl through, lasers to navigate and climb and crawl through, and even a slide, Spy Missions tested our mental and physical agility, but before long we had saved the day and stopped the missile our mission was complete.

We loved our time at Spy Missions, although the time went by rather quick, but in fact, we were there for an entire hour and the time had just flown the past, the kids said that they had a great time and they would love to do it again.

For more information and to find our your nearest Spy Missions Headquarters check out www.spymissions.co.uk.