I am joining in again with the fabulous Hannah over at Mums’ Days and her linky. Mums’ List allows us to share the highlights (personal and blogging) of our week and also the things that still need to be ticked off our Mums’ Lists!
REAL LIFE
- I still need masses of inspiration for our decorating #boring.
- We need to finish painting Baby’s playhouse, so I can get on with the fun job of personalising it.
- I need to source a big toy storage unit for our living room. Any suggestions?
- Baby went to her first swimming lesson #NeedNewEarDrums
- Investigate sensory play options for Baby.
- Devise some different lunches and snacks for Baby.
BLOG & SOCIAL MEDIA
- I gave my archive some love with Evergreen. This is a fabulous plug in for self hosted wordpress peeps, which automatically tweets out old posts for you. You can set times, day and age of post. Then just leave everything else to Evergreen. I love this minimum effort for maximum reward.
- I added the Editorial calendar plug in- another one for self hosted WP users. This is amazing! It shows a calendar page that you can drag your draft posts onto, move them around etc. This makes planning and prioritising so much easier, especially if you are a visual person.
- I finally got round to adding the ‘Related Posts‘ plug in to my blog (hooray for me!).
- I was very glad to look after #TWTWC for Hannah at Make, Do & Push, one of my favourite blogs, while she was on holiday.
- We started swimming as Konfidence Swimologists.
- Worked on the #MorrisonsMum project for BritMums.
- I won a computer, yes an actual computer, for this post I wrote about my Wonderblogs.
INSPIRATION
- I am inspired by blogs on a daily basis, whether it be a linky, brilliant post, piece of layout or design. It all gets my mind buzzing with ideas.
- This post from Manc Family Robinson echoed what I have been thinking about weight loss and diets for a while now.
- On the theme of diets, may be I should just do this one from Mama’s VIB.
Why not pop over and have a read of some other Mums’ lists.
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Thanks for sharing! I didn’t know there is a plugins to tweet old post! Off to download! And congrats on your fab win!
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Thank you. Yes you should it is great x
I’ve never got to grips with WordPress, I love Blogger and have found ways around lack of official plugins to achieve all I want, BUT I love the sound of Evergreen…. will have to see what I can do with Blogger!!
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I’m sure there must be a Blogger equivalent x
Wow…well done on your win. Thats awesome!
We are also swimologists and are having great fun.
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Thanks very much hun. Yes I saw you were on the list, well done, it’s great isn’t it x
congrats on your win! it looks like you’ve been busy, great #mumslist !!!I’ve been thinking about taking Thomas for swimming lessons but they are pricey! so I just take him myself, am I missing anything? x
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Thank you very much. I think it depends on the child. I am sure they could go and get used to it just with you, but the instructor knows lots of techniques to teach them to swim, be safe and get them used to the water. So in that respect I think a class is best. Also we did lots of singing and moving around with the other class members which you wouldn’t do on your own, but that really helped x
Wow, congratulations on the computer thing! I meant to enter that and totally forgot, damn!! I love the related posts plug in, no idea if it actually drives traffic through my site but it does look pretty 🙂
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Thanks hun. Yes as long as it looks pretty 🙂 x
We got a lot of toy storage from some fab sites online .x
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Yes I am trawling internet sites at the moment x
Good luck with completing your rather long list! Have you tried IKEA for toy storage? We have a lot of the ones where you can put the plastic boxes in and love them!
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Thanks, yes I have been looking at those, just not sure they would go as it is for our living room x
I love this linky – will endevour to join in again this week. I didn’t know you could get a plugin like that for your blog. I want to move to wordpress, but I am so scared I will lose the whole thing trying. Yes I am chicken! 🙂
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I think you can get companies that swap it over for you so you don’t have to worry. I moved from WP to self hosted WP, but not sure about blogger to WP x
I love this linky I’ve not seen it before will defo look it up and join in next time.
Great tip on the Evernote plugin – I normally schedule old post tweets with twuffer but I’ll give this a look anything to make life easier!
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Oh no I use Twuffer for my more recent posts but it would take forever with my archive, Evergreen is so much better x
Those plugins sound fab – going to check them out! It’s great to read what you’ve been up to! x
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You should do hun, they make my life easier. Thank you x
Love reading posts like this, gives a great insight into the blogger. I recently downloaded evergreen, I haven’t blogged much lately but its definitely helped drive some traffic to the blog and old posts are getting love! Oh,and a bit of self promo, but plenty of sensory play ideas for babies and toddlers on my blog 😉
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Perfect, will have a look at your blog. Evergreen is great, just set it up and don’t think about it again x
I love the sound of the editorial calender plugin – thanks for the tip.
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My pleasure, I hope you find it useful, I couldn’t cope without it now x
I am so pleased you won that computer. You deserve it!!! 🙂 x
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Thank you hun, I am very pleased x
Thank you for sharing! I’m also inspired by other blogs but when it comes to my own I often have a black hole in my head 😉 And the decorating bit is still ahead of me, but I’m not looking forward to moving and painting
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My pleasure, I think we can all pick little things up from each other. It’s good to share x
Love the idea of Evergreen – I did have tweet old post but it just ended up crashing my blog lol
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It is great you should add it, I tweets mine every hour x
I love Ikea for storage – practical and really reasonably priced x
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Thanks hun. We have been looking there, just trying to decide or find one 2nd hand x
I keep thinking about moving to wordpress every time I hear about these great plugins but I never pluck up the courage to do it!
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I am sure you could find someone to move it for you. I do love the plug ins on WP and I added another 3 today x
I think Corona have a lovely toy/storage box if you were after a nice wooden one?
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Thanks hun, that is lovely but we need masses of storage x
I’m so glad you won the computer! x
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Thank you huni x
Have you seen the Ikea storage chests? I think they look really good and you can choose the colour of drawers to suit the room. You can often pick them up second hand on gumtree or ebay.
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Thank you. We bought bargain one from a car boot, but think we may look in IKEA for another to go with it x
An ACTUAL computer?!?! That is brill, you’re doing so well and you really deserve it 🙂 big love!
I’ve had that calendar plug in for a while but I never have any posts to put in it!! Why am I so hand to mouth with my blogging?! Hahaha! Maybe I just need to accept it for a while and I’ll get better with time?!
For the living room we have a long thin unit from Ikea – it lifts up and I put jigsaws and games in the chest, and there are 2 drawers that are mainly for dumping stuff and DVDs but you could definitely use those for toys too. I’ll see if I can dig out a link! xxx
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Thanks hun. Yes an ACTUAL computer! Amazing isn’t it!! I arrived yesterday 🙂 I love the calendar plug in and it has got me so organised I am all scheduled up a week in advance now (usually I am writing the night before). Feel much better now I have breathing space to do all my commenting! ha ha! There is always something xxx