I love to make some kind of bunting for every special occasion or holiday time. It's pretty, it's effective and you can save it, to string up again the following year. ​

Last year we made brightly coloured hand and foot print family bunting which I packed, as we are in Bournemouth at our family place in Southbourne, ​so this year I made some wire bunting to stay up across the fireplace.

I wanted to use chicken wire but the only place locally I could find it sold it in lengths of 20m! So this mesh pet guard was perfect! You can buy it in a sheet for under £5 and it would make at least 5m worth of bunting! I made a shorter piece and have kept the leftover wire for another project.​

Cut the mesh wire with normal kitchen scissors into rectangles. Mine were approximately 20cm wide by 40cm long. Take a paper doily and a string or ribbon embellishment (mine were on offer in The Range 2 for £1). Thread the ribbon or string through the top of the doily and tie to the wire. Pass ribbon through to hang and you are done!

We have a busy Easter Monday today before we drive home to Weston super Mare. This morning I have found Molly's Den, a 16,000 sq ft warehouse full of vintage sellers complete with a children's play area, and this afternoon we will stop in at Moors Valley, a wonderful ​Country Park and Forest.

I hope you have had a lovely Easter break! ​

​This is a very special week. Due date week. 

Next month my blog is going to be bursting with photographs of a beautiful new baby. I'm going to be an Auntie! ​

For now, we all have our homemade badges made by Natalie. I just love my sister.​

​Excuse Ollie's rather strange pose, we took this the second before we rushed out of the house to get off for Southbourne! So it had to be a one take wonder! But I love the blurry background effect - depth of field is my friend at the moment.

Join in with our Me and Mine Family Portrait Project by showing us you and yours! You can see what we dreamt up last month for our family photo here! ​

Scoot on over to Chloe at Chloe Witters to see her sweet family photos! My favourite post this month was about how Chloe works from home. It was like looking at my working day and I totally understood how isolating it can feel sometimes. 

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Peeps. When we visited my brother and his wife in New Jersey, you couldn't move for these brightly coloured marshmallows, bursting from every Easter display.​

I snuck several packets into my suitcase to use for an Easter sweet treat for the boys.

When I say treat, I mean the most indulgent, sugar stuffed treat on the planet!​

Smores are an American ​camp fire tradition. They are usually made with crackers but I chose to make ours with Melba toast and rice cakes. Ideally you roast the marshmallows over the fire and then squish them between the layer of chocolate and cracker.

In the absence of a fire we used the microwave! 5 seconds and a gooey wonder awaits you.​

Make your own with thin mini bars of chocolate and ordinary marshmallows!​ Enjoy!

My discovery for the weekend is a website that is so beautiful it hurts my eyes! I have never been so obsessed with crepe paper flowers. I have got to try these ranunculus  by Twigg Studios​. 

Happy Easter Saturday! We are down in Southbourne and I am off to buy crepe paper! ​