This week and next week’s crafts will focus on advent calendars. Advent calendars are often associated with sweets and chocolate, but they don’t need to be. They can be creative projects to make the countdown …

These photos were taken during our first visit to Barcelona and more specifically at the Zoo, which is one of the best I have visited in Europe.  Besides the tour of the animals, we enjoyed …

This hanging Christmas tree is a very original advent calendar made of embroidered wool felt. Each felt pocket can fit a gift, sweet or even a note so you can fill each day in the …

Our house is covered with drawings.  The first point of display of a new drawing is always the fridge; thankfully we have a large two-door fridge, but even so the space ran out a  long …

The Tate Modern is one of our favourite places, whenever we are in London we wander down to the South Bank and have an early morning visit so we avoid the really busy time. In …

Christmas decorations are everywhere in the outside world, although it might be a little early to put up a tree in your lounge it doesn’t mean you cannot get things started. If in the past …

Lisbon is such a great place to visit, a city that sprouts Portuguese history from every corner. The architecture is so rich that even if you didn’t visit any museums at all you’d still go …

I love Stella McCartney’s amazing kids’ collection for Gap. I especially like the boys’ line, after so many complaints about how dull boys clothes often are with much of the same in different colours and …

What a fantastic setting for an ice rink, the east lawn of the Natural History Museum is the ideal place for that magical atmosphere of winter fun. The Ice Rink will be open every …

I get so excited when I find new toys that are educational, stimulating and safe for the kids as well as  the planet, environment friendly, produced within a fair working environment and distributed in total …

There might not be much in the way of autumn leaves sceneries in Sardinia, but the October sky at sunset makes up for it. The first picture was taken during a visit to my parents …

I just had to share the fantastic initiative in place in my son’s school in conjunction with the town administration. School children are introduced to Capitan Eco the recycling pirate and each is given a booklet …