Bubs’ has spent many hours outside running up and down our little garden between daddy and her little windmills/pinwheels. One evening while she was running around I decided that a pinwheel party would be such a cute theme for her second birthday party. Conveniently I’d done a pinwheel cake topper DIY a few years ago,…
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March Grocery Challenge Roundup
If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you’ll know that I set myself a challenge to spend less on groceries in March. The goal was to spend less on groceries, ideally R3000 or less (and then keep the spend down going forward), but more importantly to use some of the saved money to bless someone…
March Grocery Challenge
Groceries are ridiculously expensive. Prices also seem to keep going up. I’ve also found though, that’s it’s very easy for my standard of living to slowly creep up too. So not only is meat getting more expensive, but one slowly starts to buy the better meat more often, or the fancier muesli. Towards the end…
Oat Banana Toddler Pancakes Recipe // Baby Bullet
Making toddler meals can be a tiring process. I often find myself out of ideas for interesting and healthy foods, that are still easy to whip up. These oat banana toddler pancakes are now one of our go to breakfasts (with leftovers for snacks). Using a blender, like the Baby Bullet, helps turn raw oats…
Soft Sole Velvet Toddler Shoes // Baby DIY with pattern
Last week I shared a tutorial for soft sole baby shoes, which may well end up being the first in a whole series of baby or toddler shoe DIY patterns. I’m thoroughly loving being able to put Bubs in shoes that I made specially for her and need to maximise on it while she’s still small enough…
Soft Sole Toddler Shoes // Baby DIY with pattern
I never thought I’d be a “shoe mom”. But then Bubs started walking and suddenly I wanted to get her a wardrobe full of cute shoes. Instead of breaking the bank, I started researching making some myself. And then Zana put their scrap packs on sale. Sold! Add in some leather scraps, some pattern trial…
Your favourite children’s books
I have a love hate relationship with the children’s section at the bookshop. There seem to be so many good options that it can actually just be overwhelming! Undoubtedly I’ll want to leave with more than my bank account intended. Last week, in an effort to make it less overwhelming, I asked you for some…
Preserving memories with Grand Little Adventure
Goodness me, time goes quickly! I know that you hear that all the time, but I really can’t believe that we’re just two weeks away from Bubs’ first birthday. At the same time it sometimes feels like she’s always been around, but time is a very strange thing that way. We’ve been trying to just…
Top product picks for newborn to six months
It’s so easy to get sucked into buying all.the.things for your sweet little baby to be. In reality though the only essentials are milk, love, hygiene and warmth. That being said, these are the top items that helped make our first 6 months of parenthood just that much easier. They are by no means “essentials”. But,…
On your first Father’s Day // Baby is here!
We are so thrilled to be able to say that we are parents! I can’t believe it’s already been two weeks since our little girl arrived in the big outside world. We have been enjoying time with her so much. I may be a little quiet around these parts for a while as I’m trying…
Counting down the days // Maternity Photos
I don’t think we can believe that the day is actually drawing so so close when we will get to meet our little girl. Technically she’s due THIS weekend, but we’ll have to see how long she makes us wait. It makes it a little difficult to count down the days, when we don’t actually…
Need your clothes to dry faster? // Spindel Review
Are you good at keeping up with with your laundry? We aren’t! As it is now, with just the two of us we can often have washing strewn out over the clothes rack, camping chairs and sometimes even on the couch just to try get it all to dry. The lounge ends up looking like…
We’re having a ? // Gender Reveal
It’s slowly starting to feel a little more real that we’ll actually be having a baby soon and we are super excited that it’ll be a little GIRL 🙂
We’re having a little baby!
Our little family is becoming a family of three and we are so excited! Come June 2017 our lives are going to change forever, in ways we can’t even imagine I’m sure, but we are looking forward to the journey and all that we will learn along the way.
When things aren’t always pretty // Life lately
I’ve had this idea sort of brewing in my mind for a while, but putting it into words is extremely difficult. I recently met up with a blogger friend of mine and while discussing blog niches she said how your blog is your own space so you can write whatever you want. So here goes….
2015 SA Blog Awards Results
The 2015 SA blog awards results are out and I’m so excited! I absolutely love putting together content for Pure Sweet Joy, but many people don’t realise the hard work that goes into blogging. It’s so great to see bloggers getting recognition for their efforts. Head over to see the list of 2015 results and look…