This week - Time flies when you are having fun

This week feels like hurricane Lucy has hit Weston super Mare.

I'm rushing around, have work meetings in Bristol, writing list after list, frantically sending work and pleasure emails, trying to catch up on opportunities and have a birthday party looming.

A big birthday party and it's getting bigger by the day. Not in a bad way, but there is just another thing I want to make, another site to bookmark, a couple of extra bits to print. Plus I have a blog this year that is helping with lots of details. More soon on that note.

Yes I know I could make life simpler and have 3 friends over for tea, but that's just not me. ​Whilst I am sure he would enjoy it just the same, I'm a more is more kind of gal.

​I'd like to state for the record I am not in the least bit complaining. This is how I love life. Busy, bright and full of mayhem. I am an all or nothing girl. But all is feeling like the world this week. 

I do my best work under pressure. Always left exam revision to the night before and am most productive the hour before a deadline. If only there was just 3 hours more in the day. 

Here is a glimpse into my manic week.​

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I feel like I am stood on the top of a waterfall and I just need to jump. After the chaos and panic of the fall will come calm waters.​ Who wants to jump with me?

Here's to living every second to the full.​

Wonderful Wedding Wednesday - Mr and Mrs Daley

Welcome back to the new Wonderful Wedding Wednesday feature.  If you missed the first last week, catch up on the quintessential English Wedding of Mr and Mrs Webb here.

Every week I will bring you a beautiful couple, on the most magical day of their lives. How lucky to have old and new friends, who have had such lovely weddings!

All that I ask, is if you enjoyed the post, please take a minute to donate just £1 to The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation

This incredible charity, based in Taunton, makes dreams come true. They organise and fund wonderful weddings for terminally ill brides and grooms, working with heartbreaking stories and often under critical time constraints.

Without further a do, let me introduce this week's happy couple Clare and John...

 

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Clare and John met in 2007, when Clare was working for an international airline based out of Heathrow. She had flown to Sydney on an overnight flight and they found themselves in the same bar, on an ordinary Monday night. They never spent more than 3 weeks apart during their 15 month long distance romance and Clare would try and swap her roster, to include as many Honk Kong/Sydney trips as possible, even though that meant just 36 hours together.

After countless flights both working and as a passenger and a couple of trips to the UK for John, as well as half way meets in Honk Kong, Clare managed to gain a place on an exchange programme working for the airline's Australian partner for 12 months. But after moving in together immediately, it was clear she was never going home!

John proposed to Clare in San Francisco in August 2009. They were just about to cycle over the Golden Gate Bridge to have lunch in Sausalito, with Clare's parents who had flown in from London to meet them for a few days. John surprised Clare with a ring he had designed himself and it was perfect! Returning to Sydney on cloud nine they set the wedding date for just 9 months later on 24th May 2010.

They wanted to get married in Europe to include as many of their closet friends and family as possible. As John's mother is half Greek half Italian, a wedding in Italy was high on the list of possible venues. Clare was flicking through Hello magazine one day and saw Gary Lineker’s wedding to Danielle Bux. She immediately fell in love with their venue and decided to book the Town Hall and Hotel Caruso in Ravello on the Amalfi coast for their special day.

They had just 25 guests. The perfect intimate wedding.

Clare said of their incredible day " The most magical part of day was walking in and seeing John waiting for me along with our closest friends and family. The string quartet was playing and it was the most romantic setting, surrounded by beautiful old buildings and flowers. I remember just feeling so lucky and blessed. The day was truly perfect even with the rain, which held off and started the moment the ceremony was over. The rain clouds actually enhanced the photos by the infinity pool and made them very mystical."

Clare was so happy she didn't even care that her dress ended up completely soaked by the end of it!  

Thank you to Susan Wright for letting me share her magical photographs. 

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Clare and John's beautiful daughter Sophia was born in October 2011 and baby Daley number 2 is due in October this year. Congratulations to this very happy family!

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Make another couple as happy as this one, by pledging just £1.

Like all wonderful weddings, the special days The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation organises and funds, run into the thousands, so every penny or pound counts. Don't come back to this later, just click and donate your £1, it can be your good deed of the day! 

Click HERE to donate.

There are lots of ways to be involved, please take a minute to check out the fundraising page on The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation website. You can also like them on Facebook and follow on Twitter too for the latest news. 

Next week we are staying close to my home in Weston Super Mare, for the fab wedding of Sam and Marc!

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Sunshine Bento Babies - Rainbow Colours - Yellow

After the green feast for St Patrick's Day I decided to try out a Bento for all the colours of the rainbow.​

This week yellow.

If you are wondering what Bento Babies is - click here and catch up.​

With all the liquid sunshine we have had over the past week my boys are in desperate need of a cheery lunch, to brighten the afternoons spent inside watching the raindrops.

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I need these rainbow colour Bento Babies boxes to be simple, as I never sensibly make them the night before preschool.

On a separate note how cute is the puppy box?! Thank you Mr Ikea. (Can you see me in his eyes?!)​

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I have some small metal alphabet cookie cutters and make some Y cutouts from pre sliced cheese as it is less crumbly.​ A Y cheese and cracker tower stack.

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I bought the smiley face picks on holiday from the Magnolia Bakery - can you believe I bought picks and not cupcakes?!​ The funny egg discs and lion pick is from Bento USA.

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Featured in this Bento Babies box:​

  • Dried tropical fruit mix
  • Yoghurt covered apricot
  • Fresh Pineapple
  • Fresh Melon
  • Cheese and cracker sandwich
  • Sliced boiled egg
  • Yoghurt covered raisins

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It is so wonderful to see so many of you exploring the principle of Bento and even better that your children are benefitting and eating new things!​

You can find more ideas on the Bento Babies Pinterest Board and link up your creations here too. They don't have to be fancy - simple is super! We all need quick, easy but exciting new ways to expand our little ones palettes and broaden their eating horizons. ​