I spend a lot of time in my kitchen here on Wallace and I know baking and jam making is messy work. But with a plan of action and a bit of know-how, you can breeze through the clean-up and get to the fun part quicker: eating the delicious baked treats! Follow these tips to nail theRead more
Who can resist a homemade jam, or a sweetly preserved fruit? Not me! I’m known for my sweet tooth and love a chance to perfect my granny skills. When Mr Wallace gave me Cornersmith Picklery voucher for my birthday I was excited. I signed up for the three hour sweet preserves workshop and boy did I have fun!Read more
Meet Lou. The Lou Box Top, like the name suggests, is a loose fitting, square shaped top. He’s not called a box top for nothing! Beth at Sew DIY is the creator of the Lou Box Top. I’d been on the hunt for a top that didn’t have ‘set in sleeves’. I’m sure there’s a technicalRead more
*Trigger warning – this post contains material that may cause distress* Often my work leaves me shaking my head. Today, in an open plan office, I put my head in my hands and cried at my desk. I cried for a little girl I have never met, whose name I will never know. I criedRead more
The words butchered by kids just keep on coming! Last week’s post about toddlers adorably and totally mangling words had a great response. Not only do toddlers jumble up words, they accidentally throw the odd swear word around too. My fabulous readers told me brilliant stories of kid’s swearing. Like the family who were considering calling their unborn son Hunter,Read more
You don’t drink and drive, clearly. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to operate ‘heavy machinery’ while intoxicated. Well, it turns out that you shouldn’t use a sewing machine after drinking half a bottle of bubbly. I learnt this the hard way. As a public service announcement, here’s why you should not drink and sew! 1.Read more
Kids are adorable, right? Ok, perhaps not all of the time, but listening to children’s language develop is amazing. When toddlers mispronounce everyday words it can be truly gorgeous, or outright embarrassing! I asked the lovely Life on Wallace Facebook fans to share the words their toddlers mangle. Here are 19 words totally jumbled by toddlers. This isRead more
Our biggest lad started Kindergarten this year. He was excited about it and so was I! To mark the beginning of his formal education, we, like all parents, took some happy snaps of his first day. I’d previously been hunting around Pinterest for inspiration for first day of school photos and found ‘first day’ and ‘last day’Read more