TRIPLE LAYER CHOCOLATE TORTE

Jul 20, 2020 | Lifestyle

Mmm dessert! The topic of so many of our conversations on Instagram! Gemma posted this 3 layer chocolate torte that her mother in law Geralyn made last week and we had loads of requests asking for the recipe. Turns out it’s really simple!! Gemma’s mother...read more

LITTLE HITS OF HAPPINESS

Jul 14, 2020 | Lifestyle

With lockdown easing, we’ve been looking back on the last few months. While there’s no doubting that it’s been (extremely) hard at times, there’s also some times that we’ll look back on fondly. We’ve been discussing the positive...read more

FLUFFY AMERICAN STYLE PANCAKES

May 12, 2020 | Lifestyle

I’d never been able to master the art of pancake making, until this week. I stumbled across this recipe, tweaked a few things and made them with Alfie on Monday. We ate ours plain but top them with anything your heart desires. Hopefully this simple recipe will...read more

THE LAST 11 THINGS WE BOUGHT ON AMAZON

May 4, 2020 | Lifestyle

Have you ever checked through your past orders on Amazon and realised how totally random it is? Ours made us laugh the other day so we thought we’d share it with you. Every single one of these we now can’t live without! And they’re all under £25*....read more

THE EASIEST, TASTIEST AUBERGINE PARMIGIANA

Apr 27, 2020 | Lifestyle

Well, thousands of your voted for a resounding yes to sharing my recipe, so here we are. I merged a few different recipes for Aubergine Parmigiana this weekend to get one super easy, super tasty, super quick recipe that you can prep in advance and makes a real change...read more

TAP TO TIDY: GETTING ORGANISED AT HOME

Apr 14, 2020 | Lifestyle

Since we’re at home – a lot – we thought that we’d give you a little insight into our homes and how we’re keeping organised. Hope it gives you a little bit of inspo… THE BATHROOM Sam has been working in the beauty industry for...read more

DOWNLOADABLE KIDS TIME CAPSULE

Apr 5, 2020 | Lifestyle

We don’t want to hammer Covid19 into our kids too much, preferring to tell them what they need to know in order to understand why they’re not at school/ seeing friends and family or doing anything relatively ‘normal’ right now. But having said...read more

10 GAMES THAT KEEP OUR KIDS ENTERTAINED + THREE BONUS IDEAS

Mar 18, 2020 | Lifestyle

Ahhh, the good old days. If only we were happily on holiday now. Instead we’ve had a good clear out at home recently, and wanted to put together a list of games/toys that make the cut – the ones that capture our kids attention spans for longer than 60...read more

AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR HUSBANDS…

Mar 15, 2020 | Lifestyle

It’s Mothers Day next weekend (like you didn’t know) and we’ve had so many emails asking if we’re putting together a Mothers Day gift guide. Hell no! We’re not ‘gift guide’ kind of girls; we hate reading them and we hate putting them together (we both spend a loooong...read more

HOME // A TOUR OF MY UTILITY ROOM

Oct 14, 2019 | Lifestyle

A few months ago I did a little before and after on Instastories but I thought that I’d pop it here too so that’s it’s always here to refer back to. Mainly because I’m still getting lots of DM’s about the life-changing clothes airer! Our...read more

LIFE // HOW WE ADJUSTED TO LIFE WITH 2 KIDS

Jul 9, 2019 | Lifestyle

So writing this post 18 months into life with two kids seems a bit silly but recently we’ve been getting a lot of DM’s from you about when it all clicks. We don’t sugarcoat around here because that is helpful to no one and honestly, looking back at the time when Alfie...read more

LIFE // STYLISH STORAGE SOLUTIONS

Jul 4, 2019 | Lifestyle

If you don’t know that we’re big-time Homesense fans (Gemma in particular could be called a little obsessed) then where have you been?! We’ve both been shopping there for years, and Gemma remembers the first thing she bought there 9 years ago –...read more

THE BOYS BEDROOMS

Mar 6, 2019 | Lifestyle

This post is waaaay over due. But whenever we story from the boys bedrooms we get asked where certain things are – and then it’s a complete mess because we’ve been playing in there so I can’t take any good pics. So while they’re at...read more

Gemma’s birth story

Feb 5, 2019 | Lifestyle

Not to sound like a total misery but I hated pregnancy both times. I suffered from a variety of symptoms when I was pregnant with my daughter Belle, like sickness, dizziness, fainting, a cracked rib and nose bleeds. This time around, when I was pregnant with my son, I...read more

SAM’S BIRTH STORY

Jan 8, 2019 | Lifestyle

People told me that second births are fast but I never expected that my second baby, Alfie, would be born in one hour and forty minutes. They also told me that second babies are early but he proved them wrong and arrived seven days late. It wasn’t smooth sailing...read more