Christmas is over, let the spending begin!
My New Year’s Resolutions include ‘frugal living’ but according to credit score & report site ClearScore, 82% of us plan to buy ‘big ticket’ items in 2017.
Happy New Year, Happy New Year’s resolutions!
Happy New Year everybody! I hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas. In my first blog post of 2017, I’m sharing my New Year’s resolutions with you…In the hope that it will give me an added incentive to stick to them.
Our Christmas tradition continues: Building the Lego Volvo EW160E
We continue our Christmas Lego building tradition by building the Lego Volvo EW160E 2-in-1 (alternative Volvo L30G) Set No: 42053. I give you my review of our first Lego Technic set.
Now that’s what I call the Greatest Christmas gift…Ever!
We are excitedly counting down sleeps to Christmas Day and looking forward to unwrapping gifts, seeing loved ones and celebrating the Good News about the greatest gift ever!
The Christmas Tag
I’ve been ‘tagged’ by fellow blogger Bridie, from Bridie by the Sea’, to answer some Christmas questions.
As Halfords celebrates ‘Bikes through the decades’, I recall my first bike.
Halfords have been winding back the clock with their “Bikes through the Decades” campaign. As Christmas approaches, I reminisce about one of the best Christmas presents I ever received as a child, my very first bike.
I’m a guest star! I share my blogging successes & embarrassing fails.
Be my guest! As well as enjoying writing my own guest series, ‘Creative Inspirations’, where I interview artists and other super-talented creative types (see them all HERE), I love reading...
Celebrating my birthday in style with HomeSense.
Ah, isn’t that nice? HomeSense threw a party for my birthday! Well, invited me to a Christmas Party on my birthday…
Maflingo: What have I got in my handbag?
Today I’m going to tell you what’s in my handbag! Simply because I was desperate for a break from writing festive blog posts, (Bah! Humbug!). I’d hoped to write a funny post, but my sense of humour deserted me after I overslept and woke up with my contact lenses glued to my eyeballs!
12 of the best hilarious & awkward blogger autocorrect fails.
Technology can make it so much easier to communicate. Unfortunately, when autocorrect fails, the message can take on a whole new meaning, sometimes with embarrassing or hilarious consequences.
Lego memories and building a Christmas tradition.
‘Lego’ means more than bricks to our family. I explain why building a Lego set together at Christmas time has become a special tradition in the Taylor household.
Countdown to Christmas: kindness, giving & ‘reverse Advent calendars’
This Advent I want to embrace Jen Walshaw’s inspirational ideas over at Mum in the Madhouse. Last year, she told of her desire to turn the focus of Advent from receiving to giving and getting the kids to share in the joy of the season by starting ‘Advent Acts of Kindness’ and a ‘Reverse Advent Calendar’.
Welcome to Maflingo ('flamingo', for those who can say it). I'm Jane: wife, mum, and self-confessed bargain-hunter with a passion for interior decorating, DIY, money-saving, decluttering and all things creative. I hope you'll make yourself at home in my little corner of the internet with it's 'pretty things', tips and reviews and my random musings on life. My e-mail address is: info@maflingo.com
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