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Special offers for London Mums on new products

Exclusive offers to London Mums. ARIA, Mii™ Single Electric Breast Pump IARIA, Mii™ Single Electric Breast Pump, is a hospital-grade breast pump designed for comfort, power, and portability. Quality engineering makes ARIA a safe option for moms through a 100% safe guard with no cross contamination. Equipped with Flutter Flex Vent™ soft cups made of 100% food-grade silicone to allow…
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Exclusive interview with top British dollmaker Jill Bennett

Here is an exclusive interview with one of the best dollmakers in Britain, Jill Bennett, which will be exhibiting at the Kensington Dollshouse Summer Festival this May 2012. Here is Jill’s responses in her own words: “Thank you for your interest in my former life!! It’s odd, for also I have some work on www.children’sibookillustration.com! Work for sale, would you…
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Tips to make Easter Egg-stra special for your family by decorating eggs with funky patterns

Make Easter Egg-stra special for your family by decorating eggs with funky patterns and personalised designs using these top tips from Henna artist Farhana Ali. Here are Farhana Ali 5 tips of How To Pimp Your Easter Egg: 1) Sketch out your design on paper first before using an edible pen to mark your design onto your egg. Edible pens can be found in all good craft and cook shops. Once you’ve…
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Names that time forgot: ‘Donald', 'Betty' biggest losers in names league since 1940 Census

Don and Betty Draper return in ‘Mad Men’ Series 5 on 27th March; but their namesakes now endangered – study by findmypast.co.uk From Donald (“Don”) Draper to Donald Trump, Donald Duck and Donald Rumsfeld… Donald’s once thrived, now threatened From Betty Draper to Betty White, Betty Boop, Betty Grable and Betty Crocker … Betty’s once flourished, now few Betty and Donald are…
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Easter Chick baby/child personalised photographs

Would you like a personalised digital Easter Picture created from your own baby photograph, like this one? All you have to do is take the photo in the same sort of position and email it to me direct. You can pay by Paypal or send a cheque. Important. Make sure you do not shrink the photograph down as it will lose its resolution. You get to keep the original digital image at a special low cost of…
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Dress your Bratz and Monster High dolls: make a Lagoona Blue Monster High doll mask fishtail

This weekend I came up with a design for the Lagoona Blue doll from Monster High. First I created a fishtail mask. Hand painted etc. Then I went on to make the sea skirt with hand painted fish bone + seaweed and fish bone top. The hand painted fish wings give it that extra special effect. As these costumes are very time-consuming I am just starting with selling the masks on Ebay to see what…
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Fairy garden DIY: how to create your own fairy world

Spring is on its way and there is nothing more magical for little girls than a fairy garden.  Would you like to know how to make a cheap fairy tea set the Butterfly Lullaby way and much more? I will start by showing you how to make a fairy spoon. Here is a video of me making a Butterfly Lullaby fairy spoon. You can use any sort of materials you like. But if you would like to know what I used…
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Win 1 of 5 Tiddley Pom £10 gift sets

The creators of the gorgeous new baby spa range Tiddley Pom understand that there is nothing more important in life than bonding with your baby. Using touch, smell and sound, Tiddley Pom makes bonding a pleasurable, easy and relaxing experience for both baby and parent with a range of beautiful products that help create a whole new concept in baby spa treatments. Tiddley Pom is giving you the…
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Draculaura dolls bat mask Monster High now selling on Ebay

Monica from London Mums inspired me to have a go at selling some of my dolls costumes on Ebay. So this sunny Saturday I have started with the Draculaura bat mask, which is designed, handmade and hand painted by me, Sharon J.Bainbridge. I have signed the back and numbered them. Who will get No.1 and 2? Here is the ebay listing if you want to get it: www.ebay.co.uk Who knows these little masks may…
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Fairtrade Easter Bunny chocolate fairy door

My little girl’s homework last weekend was to create a poster about Fairtrade. I think she did a great job. The only thing that was missing was we ran out of time to write about child slavery and how they are mistreated by farmers. Did you know that the farms get only 5% whilst the trader gets 70%. This results in child slavery where children are forced to work for nothing. I love…
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