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Mum in the Hotseat: 10 Tips for Cultivating a Happy Home

May 7, 2012
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I included today’s Mum in the Hotseat, Kellie of 1000 Homes of Happiness, in the 2012 list of 12 Great Blogs to Read earlier this year because I love the mission that her family have set themselves – to release 1000 origami houses out into the world as a means of spreading happiness. Today Kellie [...]

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A Family Kitchen Renovation Story

April 9, 2012
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As some of you who follow Childhood 101 on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram know, we decided to add a kitchen renovation to our long list of things to do before baby. It is something that we have wanted to do for a while but when it came down to the actual doing…the decision was made [...]

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Mum 2 Mum: How do you control the paper clutter???

February 16, 2012

A true sign that I am well and truly pregnant was the spontaneous urge to spring clean at 10pm that occurred earlier this week. All of a sudden the clutter was driving me crazy and I just wanted it gone!  (I literally was telling Dad 101 to ‘Throw it in the bin,” every time the [...]

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Our Play Space: The Perfect Home For Us

August 7, 2011
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A peek inside a reader’s play space… Today’s reader, Julia of Adventures at Home, has written a whole post about her love for her playful family home. Here are my favourite snippets…. “Sometimes, just sometimes, I daydream. I imagine that we have a big house… a playroom… a large garden… oodles of storage space – [...]

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Tree House Dreams

July 20, 2011

This post is by regular contributor Catherine Oehlman aka SquiggleMum. My dream home is a tree house.  Yes, a tree house!  Forget about giving me a home among the gumtrees… I want a home IN the gumtrees.  I want to reach out and touch the leaves, watch the birds, and feel the breeze blowing through [...]

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Kids Art: Working on Canvas

July 14, 2011
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Whenever I see stretched canvases on special, I grab a few in various sizes to use for art projects. I love hanging children’s art on the wall. It places value on their creativity and ideas, and it looks great. In fact I would have to say that children’s artwork is one of my favourite choices [...]

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Dreaming of a Family Home

July 13, 2011
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This post is by regular contributor Kate Fairlie of Picklebums. When we moved to our little rural property we already had 18 month old twins and were planning on having more children, so we knew that we’d have to do a major renovation one day.  Right then and there we started planning and dreaming and [...]

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Our Play Space: The Stuff With Thing Playroom

July 10, 2011
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A peek inside a reader’s play space… Having two girls with special needs can be demanding and one high priority when we were looking for a new place to live was that they have a dedicated play space. Preferrably a large space, so sensory seeking Heidi (who is 6 years old) could still be her [...]

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