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Fantastic Fun With Glam Goo Fantasy Accessories Pack

Kids Toys / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

Eva’s having fantastic fun with the Glam Goo Fantasy accessory pack having recently reviewed the Confetti pack too. This fab accessory pack comes with all you need to have fantastic fun creating your own Glam Goo!

This pack contains a pot of clear Glam Goo along with 2 pots of colour. These shimmering colours contained in the Fantasy pack are ‘Magic Hour’ and ‘Mint Skies’.

It also contains 3 pots of sparkles in ‘Cosmic Dust’, ‘Mermaid Wishes’ and ‘Unicorn Fuzz’ and Rose Mist Scent to make your Glam Goo.

The fantasy pack also comes with a rainbow charm and Heart necklace to fill with Glam Goo and wear.

Fantastic Fun

Eva loves these accessories packs and this one is right up her street! She couldn’t wait to get started, setting everything out neatly before she began.

Eva decided to start off using the Magic coloured powder turning her goo a sparkling blue. We both love how this colour turned out with the way it shimmered and looked magical!

After adding ‘Magic Hour’ Eva Decided to add in some ‘Cosmic dust’ too. These look really cool and catch the light so magically.

To finish, Eva placed this Glam Goo into the Heart necklace accessory. She was really pleased with this and couldn’t wait to try it on and pose for a photo.

Once she was finished posing, she quickly got back to work making the other half of her Glam Goo a shimmering green with ‘Mint Skies’. I almost missed it, she was so quick to get going again!

Eva poured a mixture of sprinkles onto the table and added them to her Mint Skies Glam Goo giving it a fantastic fun mermaid theme.

After working plenty of sprinkles into the second half of the Glam Goo, Eva popped it into the rainbow accessory piece.

This fantastic fun accessory pack kept Eva busy for quite some time after creating her own mixes with the ingredients. She had a little left over too and enjoyed adding a little of everything in too! The theme of this pack was a favourite too and she can’t see what Glam Goo come up with next!

Have your kids tried the Glam Goo Fantasy Pack yet?

5 Easter Crafts Using Posca Pens

Crafts / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

We’ve tried 5 Easter crafts using Posca pens over the last few days. Posca pens are paint pens designed to be used on many different surfaces. They are perfect for so many crafts! We received 2 packs of Posca Pens to help with our Easter crafts. We received an 8 pack of standard and an 8 pack of sparkling Posca Pens. Posca Pens are a Uniball product with a large range of colours & tip sizes for different projects. Posca Pens are water-based and non-toxic, unlike alcohol-based pens the colour doesn’t bleed through paper/card/fabrics.

5 Easter Crafts

Decorating Plastic Eggs

Our first Easter craft was decorating hanging egg decorations using Posca pens. Eva is a big fan of Posca pens having discovered them at a MetalArts event and loved them. She quickly pretended she couldn’t paint properly with paint and a brush after spotting new Posca pens. She decorated an egg using some of the new standard colours and a few left over from my last pack and came up with this design.

Using the pack of standard colour Posca pens to decorate an egg myself, I was impressed with how well they covered the plastic. As you can see both eggs turned out really colourful and the Posca pens work brilliantly on these plastic decorations.

Colourful Egg Cups

Next, we decorated egg cups using the standard Posca pens. Cheating slightly as the flowers were part of the egg cup design, we got to work. We started off colouring those & adding more details & colours as we went.

We then added some colourful Easter eggs all the way around the bottom. I was impressed with how easy it was to use the Posca pens to decorate the egg cup. Posca pens are fantastic for such a range of surfaces!

Easter Cards

Of course, it wouldn’t be easter without a lovely card so we visited Mrs Mactivity’s site, we love her printable resources designed by Polly Love. We found this lovely Silhouette Easter card which the girls think is really cute! We printed the card out on to pink card and used the Sparkling Posca pens to brighten it up. I also used the white Posca pen from the standard pack for the bunnies fluffy ears & chest.

Numbering Bunny Footprints

Posca Pens are great, even for simple things like numbering bunny footprints for an Easter egg hunt! They are so bright & vibrant, you can’t miss them!

Easter Masks

Masks are something the girls really enjoy decorating for all kinds of occasions. These had a felt texture on the top & the Posca pens worked really well. I had expected the colour to seep across a little but we didn’t have this issue which was a relief! Eva decided to make her’s a rainbow & bunny mask.

Admittedly that bunny does remind of the Hell Bunny Logo haha! Eva is really happy with her mask and loves being able to use all the colours without them running into each other. You kind of expect paint pens to leak and run everywhere but Posca pens are amazing & once you get the flow going, so easy to use. They are so brighht & vibrant and we are totally in love with the Sparkling Posca Pens, you will no doubt see them featured on the blog again soon!

Have you used Posca Pens for Easter crafts before?

Stunning Planners & Stationery From Old English Co – World Stationery Day Competition

Giveaways / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

I’ve been browsing the stunning planners and stationery from Old English Co who currently have a World Stationery Day competition running. Their competition to win 4 stunning planners is open until 25th April 2018. Simply head over to their competition page and follow the simple instructions for a chance to win. Old English Co is a stationery and homeware brand creating beautiful, hand-lettered products.

Stunning Planners From Old English Co

Old English Co has this range of stunning planners (A5) available for just £11.95 each. These planners are available in pink & gold, grey & gold, off-white & copper and my favourite – black & pearlescent. These A5 planners are perfect for day to day use with an area for the date, da daily checklist on each inner page and a section for notes at the bottom.

These stunning planners from Old English Co are made using metallic foil on thick, 350gsm coloured card for the cover. The planner contains 380 pages made from 100gsm paper and all planners are printed in the UK. I love the layout of these planners, I run off of lists otherwise I can be quite forgetful.

My Old English Co Stationery Wishlist

With World Stationery day coming up and both Eva & myself loving stationery I decided to see what else the Old English Co have to offer in the stationery department. I was not disappointed, they have a fantastic range. Here are my 5 favourite products from Old English Co outside of the stunning planners they are currently giving away for their World Stationery Day competition!

Brilliant Ideas Notepad – I love this little A6 notepad, perfect for jotting down blog post ideas!

2. Dreaming of unicorns A5 notebook – Eva loves unicorns and loves this notebook too. I’m sure plenty of people would love to add this to their stationery collection too.

3. Start somewhere A4 notebook – We all have to start somewhere and this notebook is a great reminder to get started!

4. You Rock A5 Wiro Notebook – This would be a perfect gift for my brother to note down song lyrics & guitar riffs!

5. Get Stuff Done Weekly Planner – Weekly planners are possibly the best thing I have discovered in the last year! They are great for having on your desk so you know your week’s schedule/plans at a glance.

Old English Co has some great products available and I could happily get carried away shopping on their site. With Eva by my side, we could easily end up with way too many notebooks, pins & planner amongst other things!

Do you love the stunning planners & stationery available from Old English Co? Have you entered their competition yet?

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Easy Mornings With Left & Right Shoe Stickers From Easy2name – 3 Sets To Giveaway!

Family / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

Want easy mornings with left and right shoe stickers? Easy2name have these fantastic stickers perfect for pre-schoolers & young children & we have a set each for 3 lucky winners! We received several sets of the lovely animal design left & right shoe stickers for our review. You can find a whole range of fab stickers & labels at Easy2name & I recently reviewed their Gorgeous Personalised Woven Labels with a giveaway (Ending: 2/4/18) too!

Left & Right Shoe Stickers

The left & right shoe stickers are designed as a simple but effective solution to teaching children to put their shoes on the correct feet. This makes putting shoes on more fun and getting out the house a bit easier! Both girls still need help with their shoes, Izzy is learning and Eva struggles to stay focused. Needless to say, it can cause stressful mornings so spotting the left & Right shoe stickers seemed a great idea.

Left & Right shoe stickers come with 4 fun designs included in each pack of 8, costing just £4 each. They are really easy to use, peel off and place each half of the sticker in each shoe to complete the picture. These labels are white and come in either black or pink print, you can select when adding to your basket.

Izzy barely let me photograph the stickers before claiming a pink pig set of left & rights stickers for her trainers. Straight away I noticed the quality of the stickers, Easy2name have amazing quality products, I’m still in love with my woven labels too! The left & right stickers looked really cute and Izzy loved her pig! The very next day she got ready to go shopping with the Mr & proudly showed him which shoe to put on each foot. It really made me smile, it makes putting on shoes much more fun gives kids that little bit of independence too.

Easy Mornings

I’m looking forward to easy mornings and Eva coming out of school with her shoes on the right feet! Eva picked a Dog for her trainers and a Zebra for her wellies which she struggles the most with. She wore her trainers to school for a few days (she keeps destroying school shoes, eek!) and came home with them on the right foot every time. I was even more impressed on P.E days as she generally has to swap her shoes over before walking home.

One morning we woke up & it was raining hard so Eva needed her wellies for school. Eva usually can’t figure out which welly to put on which foot, as they are so similar. Reminding Eva the images go on the outside, isn’t helpful as the pictures wrap around. With the Easy2name left & right shoe stickers though we had an easy morning with no stressing over her wellies being on the wrong feet. Relief all round!

I would definitely recommend these cute left & right stickers to parents of young children. They really do give you an easy morning and a happy child, these stickers are just fab!

Giveaway

If you love the idea of these left & right stickers enter the rafflecopter giveaway below for your chance to win 1 of 3 sets. Each set of 8 left & right pairs of stickers come in 4 cute animal designs & winners can choose their preferred colour.

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Gooey Fun With Glam Goo Confetti Accessories Pack

Kids Toys / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

Eva’s having Gooey Fun With the Glam Goo Confetti accessories pack we received to review. Eva was really excited to receive the Glam Goo kit having seen adverts around for it.

Glam Goo Confetti Pack

This fun-filled pack comes with 2 accessories, a bow bracelet & a bunny keychain to fill with slime when you are done mixing in different ingredients. This pack comes with fluffy slime, a peach scent, 2 colours (Pink & Yellow), colourful confetti & balls to mix in with your gooey slime!

Gooey Fun!

Eva really enjoyed playing with the fluffy slime. We split the slime into 2 halves so Eva could try 2 different types. She decided to start off adding in some of the colourful balls to her slime. Next, she added some pink colouring, her favourite colour!

Once she had added in the powder, Eva decided to add some colourful confetti.

Having decided she was going to put the pink slime in the bunny keychain, Eva was pleased to fill up the bunny and still have some left over.

Yellow Bow Confetti Bracelet

With the second half of the fluffy slime, Eva decided she wanted to make a yellow bow confetti bracelet. She got to work adding the yellow powder and peach scent first.

It’s all about the colour with Eva so she decided to add the coloured balls in again for the second half.

Next, she added some more confetti, she had a slight confetti explosion but was happy with the end result.

After squeezing some of the yellow colourful gooey slime into the bow bracelet she had more left over again. She eventually mixed the two colours, keeping it in the handy pink storage pot and keeps both lots of slime in their accessories.

Have your kids discovered gooey fun with Glam Goo yet?

Southend Toy Shop – Argosy Toys AKA Toymaster

Family / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

I’ve driven past Southend toy shop Argosy Toys AKA Toymaster since I was a child and always looked through the windows in awe! With its bright yellow front, you can’t miss this Southend toy shop. If you look a little closer you will a selection of all kinds of children’s toys. They also have an online store.

Southend Toy Shop Toymaster

I was shocked to find out Argosy Toys are a small independently run toy shop owned and run by Paul. Having worked there for close to 30 years is pretty impressive for any toy shop! It must be lovely for the locals growing up, recognising Paul behind the counter and going on to take their own children in to buy toys too.

Argosy Toys

Argosy Toys donate a big chunk of their small profits to SOS Domestic Abuse, local schools and Southend Hospitals Neptune Ward. I admire anyone who uses their small business to support causes like these and hearing Argosy toys could do with some extra local support, felt the need to share with you all this gem!

Stocking thousands of toys including big brands, this shop has a whole range of fab toys. They have something for all age ranges and interests. If you are passing through then please pop in and support this lovely shop. Don’t forget, you can order online too! Whether you take the kids in to pick for themselves or find something yourself as a gift, you’ll be supporting good causes too.

You can also buy from Argosy Toys online with £2.99 delivery or free delivery on orders over £40. Perfect for big birthday orders! From Hatchimals, LOL dolls, Playmobil and flush force you are bound to find the perfect gift and make someone’s day.

Have you ever visited this Southend toy shop before or perhaps spotted it driving past?

The Selfie Bag From Cotton Bag Co

Product Reviews / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

The Selfie Bag is a new product from Cotton Bag Co, who kindly sent us one of their selfie bags to review. The Cotton Bag Co bags are Eco-friendly reusable bags. Eva loved this idea of course and couldn’t wait to check it out telling me we had to take lots of selfies!

The Selfie Bag

Cotton Bag Co love a good selfie so they created the Selfie Bag, custom designed to help you bag the ultimate selfie. The selfie bag is designed to be the ultimate accessory to make it easier for you to get the perfect photo on the go in two stylish designs. We received the Natural bag but Cotton Bag Co also sell a black bag with a different design. Eva loves the bag we received with the natural background and colourful designs.

Style & Design

Both styles of the bag have inner pockets designed specially to hold your smartphone and selfie stick. The smartphone pocket is zipped, perfect for holding keys & money too. The main feature o this bag is a fold-out #SelfieSheet reflective sheet to give you the perfect lighting every time. Hold it in place, pose & snap the perfect selfie!

Selfie Tips

Find out how to bag yourself the perfect selfie with the free guide inside each Selfie Bag! Including 3 top tips from Kim Kardashian, do’s & don’ts, Selfie statistics & 5 tips from Charlotte & Stephanie. With this guide packed full of tips & tricks for the perfect selfie is sure to help.

Delivery

You can buy the Selfie bag online at the Cotton Bag Co for £23.98 (including Vat) delivered. All orders placed by 2 pm will be dispatched for next day delivery but may occasionally take 1-2 working days. Deliveries are via DPD with signed for delivery.

What do you think of The Selfie Bag from Cotton Bag Co? Do you think you could bag the perfect selfie with it?

Country-Themed Fun With Our Little Globe

Education / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

We’ve been having Country-themed fun with Our Little Globe subscription box. This fun box was created to encourage children to explore and spread the message that #DifferentIsBrilliant! I loved the idea of Our Little Globe when I first heard of it. We love trying out subscription boxes & have a 20% code for our readers! Use code: PURPLE20 at checkout which will entitle you to 20% off the entirety of your subscription!

Country-Themed Fun

Our Little Globe subscription boxes encourage children to read, craft and cook as they learn about other cultures whilst having fun. Spreading the important message of acceptance and tolerance through fun activities through this subscription box. The girls have a keen interest to learn about the world around them and this fab subscription definitely encourages that.

Our Little Globe

We opened our fun little suitcase to discover a range of items inside. These included a letter, a craft, a passport, world map, spice, recipe cards, stickers and a picture scene. Our boxes theme is Spain. The girls were really excited to find out more about Spain. Eva has a friend who is Spanish and she regularly looks up words to help talk to her in class so she hoped to learn more from Our Little Globe box.

Eva read out the letter which was filled with fun facts about Spain, with the picture showing them the monkeys in Gibraltar. The girls found out about Las Tomatatos, where the whole town comes together to throw tomatoes at each other! Of course, the girls said they would love to try that out.

Independence

Our Little Globe country-themed fun craft activities are designed for children to do independently. This means they can build confidence and skills in problem-solving through creative play.

Our country-themed craft was decorating a Salamander which the girls really enjoyed. With all the items provided for the craft, it took no time at all for the girls to get stuck in making their colourful Salamander.

Family Cooking Fun

Recipe cards provided by Our Little Globe are designed to help foster quality time with family that results in home-cooked meals that can be enjoyed by everyone.

With all the ingredients on the card and the bag of paprika to add to our dish, Eva set off cooking Chicken Paella for dinner. The instructions were on the back of the card to help you along.

After a little while, Eva was happy to announce dinner was done and we all sat down to try out the Spanish dish, chicken paella.

Our Spanish themed recipe cards including Chicken or Seafood Paella with a sachet of Smoked paprika provided. Eva helped to cook the Paella with us opting for Chicken. The dish was quick and simple enough.

Subscription

Our Little Globe offers a Monthly, 6-month or 12-month subscription with a different country-themed fun activity box at the end of each month. Each country-themed fun subscription includes free delivery.

The prices for these subscriptions are:

Monthly – £9.95
6 Monthly – £54.95
12 Monthly – £99.95

What do you think of Our Little Globe?

Personalised Woven Labels From Easy2name – Review & Giveaway

Crafts / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

Gorgeous Personalised Woven Labels from Easy2name arrived in the post last week with ‘Handmade by RelentlesslyPurple.com’ on them! I had been looking at labels for my crochet projects, hoping one day I’ll be good enough to give something away on the blog. For now, you can enter below for a chance to win your own personalised woven labels, read on to find out more!

How To Order

The ordering process with Easy2name is so quick and simple with a wide range of options and label types. Once you have selected the type and quantity you would like to order you can then personalise your label.

Personalised Woven Labels

I chose the 23mm woven labels over the 12mm as they will mostly be stitched onto my crocheted items which tend to be quite big/chunky. I decided to go with a flower motif and chose my text ‘Handmade By RelentlesslyPurple.com’ across 3 lines. Then I selected font 4 as it is quite similar to the font on my blog header.

Easy2name have a wide selection of colours available for letting and labels. I decided to have my woven labels in purple with cream lettering. The labels arrived really quickly and look so lovely, I can’t wait to finish my huge granny square blanket and add one to it! These will definitely come in handy, especially when I make items for the girls.

Last year a girl convinced Eva the scarf I made wasn’t hers and it was never returned even though it was completely different to anyone else’s scarf. If it had one of these on there would have been no dispute and Eva would still have her scarf. They will definitely be used to avoid situations like that again.

Easy2name make it so easy to name and personalise a range of items, I recommend taking a look at their website to see what else is available. If you don’t win the giveaway below but would like to order some personalised woven labels yourself, then see below for the price list.

Prices

23mm Wide Personalised Woven Labels:

20 Labels – £18

40 Labels – £21

60 Labels – £26

12mm Wide Personalised Woven Labels:

36 Labels – £18

72 Labels £21

144 Labels – £25

Giveaway

Fancy winning a set of Personalised Woven Labels for yourself? Enter below for a chance, good luck!

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Updating Your Kitchen On A Budget

Interior Decor / 8 years ago / RelentlesslyPurple

Updating your kitchen on a budget? We have done the same and have some helpful tips to get you started. Following our kitchen, bathroom and toilet refit I decided to change the colour scheme to purple, of course! I was worried when we started as I didn’t really think updating your kitchen on a tight budget was possible. Luckily there are some fab deals around!

Updating Your Kitchen On A Budget

You may remember I managed to get a purple microwave, toaster and kettle all for a reduced price as I waited for a deal. I snapped them up as soon as the price dropped and was really pleased with myself. These items can really help you work out the rest of your kitchen too. They don’t have to be overly expensive to look nice or do the job either. I picked up all 3 appliances for just £60!

There are some great microwave deals out there as well as kettles, toasters and more. Once you have your small appliances and main colour scheme you can easily find items to match if you shop around. I chose mostly purples for my kitchen with powdered lilac walls and deep purple appliances to match. With the black worktops and light wooden drawers & cupboards, it keeps our kitchen looking and feeling clean and fresh!

Updating your kitchen on a budget is more than possible with so many great deals around. I managed to find a lovely dishwasher for less than £200 in silver which goes really well with the colour scheme we went with. I would never have been able to decide what colour for our main appliances if I hadn’t found the purple microwave first!

Our appliances were all mixed colours until we began updating our kitchen. We replaced our washing machine that broke with a lovely silver one too and already had a silver fridge freezer. We are looking at eventually replacing our oven with a silver one too and will be on the hunt for deals for that too!

Fantastic Fun

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5 Easter Crafts

Decorating Plastic Eggs

Colourful Egg Cups

Easter Cards

Numbering Bunny Footprints

Easter Masks

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Stunning Planners From Old English Co

My Old English Co Stationery Wishlist

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Left & Right Shoe Stickers

Easy Mornings

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Glam Goo Confetti Pack

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Gooey Fun!

Yellow Bow Confetti Bracelet

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Southend Toy Shop Toymaster

Argosy Toys

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The Selfie Bag

Style & Design

Selfie Tips

Delivery

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Country-Themed Fun

Our Little Globe

Independence

Family Cooking Fun

Subscription

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How To Order

Personalised Woven Labels

Prices

Giveaway

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Updating Your Kitchen On A Budget

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