I’ve been testing a Kodak printer this week, and looking at the claim that Kodak can save you money on ink. I started by looking at just how much I can save, compared to my current printer. According to Kodak, I can save £169.23 a year with Kodak series 10 inks. Over the average three year lifespan of a printer that would be a massive £507 (see right). You can do your own printer ink cost comparison here. Kodak say that their printers might cost a little more, but when …

I’m testing out a new printer. This is the second printer I’ve trialled this year, and I’m excited about two things.
First, I used to have to get DH to help me set up anything IT related. Now, either set up has got easier, or I’ve learnt stuff, but I have set the Kodak Hero 7.1 up by myself. Small triumphs! The instructions were easy to follow, the touch screen was intuitive and it is all up and running! The only think that went wrong was that I put the paper …

Just wanted to share with you that Erica and ACE Inspire have recently been featured in the Tesco Magazine. She has been featured in an article which talked about how mumpreneurs are giving back after starting up their own flexible businesses.
Erica explains that it is not only money you can give back to people but also time, advce and support can be just as important. Great ideas when not everyone can afford to donate money in this current economic climate.
To read the full article visit here.

In the New Year, the thoughts of many parents turn to organizing and decluttering their home to create room for the new Christmas toys, and to start the year with great storage solutions to make the daily tidy-up that little bit easier.
bigbooklittlebookcardboardbox is an affordable children’s bookcase that addresses the common problem of how to store baby and toddler books. Anyone with very young children will know that they select books to read by looking at the covers. A baby or toddler sat in front of a traditional bookcase where …

Recently, Entertainment One offered us a ‘Talking Holly’ soft toy, Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom. With two small boys, a pink fairy was unlikely to be a hit, so they offered us a Talking Ben Elf Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom Talking Ben Elf Soft Toy
instead. It’s hard to find ‘dolls’ of any sort that appeal to boys, but K, who is 2 and 8 months, had really taken to Ben!
Ben has some really funny phrases which he says when you squeeze his hand, like  ’Elves are very good at finding …

J has been having a good time recently: with his birthday at the start of the month he has had non stop parties, plus a trip to London without his siblings! D was at a half term art course, and I decided K was too young for a few hours on the train followed by a few hours watching films, so just J and I went to see a preview of the Kung Fu Panda 2  DVD – and another new DVD I’ll tell you about in another post.
As …

Does your son or daughter embrace homework … or is it a real struggle? DD, 9, sometimes zooms through her homework (like when it is colouring) but at other times it seems to be a big battle to get maximum attention at a time when her little brothers need to be bathed and put to bed.
We’ve been lucky enough to get a fabulous children’s desk from Feather and Black as part of their tester programme: I’d hoped that it might work as a place where she could sit and work undisturbed by …

It’s J’s 6th birthday today and we’ve been celebrating for the last 3 days, with a Sunday afternoon birthday trip with friends to Drusilla’s starting the celebration. We took a birthday cake with us, then finished it off when we have friends for tea yesterday so we were excited to get a party pack with a superb Cheeky Monkey birthday cake from Asda which they sent us after we were sadly unable to make it to a tour of their cake factory – now that would have been a fab …

There are many challenges facing young people going back to school like learning new things and making friends – and to coincide with the new school term, ChildLine has created new content on their website around the theme of friendship to support young people anxious about going back to school. Roller Girls is a brand new ChildLine online game that allows friends to go roller skating together online and collect points along the way!

If you’re like me, your printer gets worked hard. Mine has to cope with the dual functions of producing professional quality materials to help me promote my business and send to clients alongside printing family photos, creating colouring sheets for the children and printing colour-heavy pages that they have created on various children’s activity sites.
I’ve been reviewing the  HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Multifunction Printer, Copier, Scanner and Fax with Touch-screen LCD Display, and I love it. It is packed with handy features that make it simple and fun …