When my friend Venean from In the Meantime tagged me in her #rockingmotherhood post, I was not super keen. Honestly I don’t particularly feel like I’m rocking anything at the moment…nada, nothing, nix…I don’t even want to go in to my lack of rockingness that’s how bleugh I have been feeling.
But I really like Venean and I decided to stop being a stick in the mud and try my hand at listing ten things that stand out as me “rocking motherhood”
Aidan has been playing with some Popsiebelle products and so could you.
In honour of Easter weekend Popsiebelle is giving away a Mr and a Miss Hoppet, one for little a boy and one for a little girl 🙂 (You guys know I don’t care about gender norms so if a boy wants Miss Hoppit, that works too)
When I first started chatting to the owner of Popsiebelle, Ingrid Frauenstein , neither of us knew that we were chatting from the same city, Port Elizabeth. Once we figured that out, we met over coffee and totally clicked. The ridiculously talented, Ingrid (she conceptualises, draws and designs everything herself) and I chatted about the importance of playtime and imagination and I learned about the origins of Popsiebelle
I made a waffle birthday cake! Aidan doesn’t like traditional cakes so I’ve had to learn to be creative. Last year he had a donut cake and this year (the year of the waffle) I made a cake using his favourite two food groups…waffles and sprinkles
Aidan’s birthday party was courtesy of Riempies and Monkey Magic PE who heard about Aidan’s birthday fails up till this point and gave us a venue and made it beautiful (the R100 voucher at Monkey Magic still stands for the month, btw). As always I wanted to be hands on and apart from the party packs and party food I opted to make the cake myself…third year running 🙂
HERE IS HOW:
The #ECMeetup bloggers spoke and we listened…
We ran a survey asking what you want to hear about and the two topics that came out tops were Branding and Photography, for branding we have the Amazing Mandy Lee Miller of Tums2Tots, Pregnant in Cape Town and #CarSeatFullStop fame. She is an industry expert, on the topic of social media influencing, blogging and marketing and you can read about her on MySpreadsheetbrain.
Allow me to introduce our Photography speaker!!! Davene Prinsloo
Davene Prinsloo gives more than just her name to her photography business; she pours her heart and soul into it.
I’ve been running on reserves when it come to hope. I’m not in the best mood, but again, who is? The world’s news headlines read like we are being run by comic book villains and South Africa’s finances are on par with mine…junk.
Things could be so much better BUT there is this glimmer of hope there is this niggling feeling at the back of my mind, a feeling that things will be okay.
I got a Monkey Magic party in a box for my Aidan’s party and although it is a little like going against the glitter and glue in my veins to not DIY everything myself, it just felt like the best option.
Even with my love of all thing DIY, the lack of time has gotten the better of me lately, I just don’t have the time to do ANYTHING. Guys, I have been brushing my teeth in the shower to shave 5min off my morning routine. So when I found out about Tanya Bekker from Monkey Magic Functions’ Party in a Box option I jumped at the chance to work with her for Aidan’s party. Because this way I could still be hands on with regards to theme and where I want everything BUT I don’t have to physically cut and paste everything myself. I’m still making things like crayon thank you gifts though.
