With Christmas fast upon us I have a truly lovely item for you guys and girls to try and win. How would you like to gift out to the special little or big one in your life this beautiful Tat Bear from Alice’s Bear Shop. Along with 6 other bloggers we are bringing you some fantastic prizes on behalf of Bump PR for the #XmasBlogTrail – my prize “Tat Bear” from Alice’s Bear Shop is a gem. Tat is a loved to bits bear who is losing his stuffing so when he is brought to Alice’s Bear Shop for a make-over he is worried the new him might not be so loved, but thanks to Alice, Tat keeps his character, and his stuffing! Here is a little more info about the work the wonderful Alice’s Bear Shop do, I urge you to visit their site it is magical.

Alice’s Bear Shop is the creation of author and illustrator Rikey Austin. When they were young, Rikey’s three sons listened to her telling them stories about teddy bears and the adventures they had with a little girl called Alice. Alice could talk to the teddy bears and they could talk back to her.  Rikey stories have since been published, complete with her beautiful illustrations. The shop, a wonderful mix of new and old bears, is also home to a teddy bear and doll hospital where patients are lovingly treated by Dr Dave.

All you need to do to enter is complete the Rafflecopter below – Good Luck xx

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These are the other 6 fab prizes, why don’t you try your luck at all of them, head 1st over to Joanna at http://mylittleraysofsunshine.blogspot.co.uk/ and win yourself a FAB SmarTrike.

 
Kirsty and Clara at http://mytwomums.com/ are giving away a Happy Hopper

Chloe at http://www.cookiejarlife.co.uk/ is giving away a Wondercube

Sonia at http://thismummyloves.com/ is giving away a Silver Sense Onesie

Kiran at http://mummysays.net/ is giving away a bundle from Skibz

Danni at http://www.itstartedwithasquish.com/ is giving away a Scootaheadz

Thanks Bump PR

Disclosure – No monies were received for this post

Hubby and I on our anniversary lunch

Deacon and I having cuddles at Riley, Love From Mummy Blog

Deacon doing his best Elvis in the bath

Have you ever met a blogger who inspires you to be a better person. Lucy is one of those bloggers, she is a sweetheart, one of the kindest, but also one of the most awesome Mama’s.

I love that she started Me & Mine, every month I try to join in and get disheartened when I can’t take a beautiful picture, every month Lucy tells me it is not about that, it is about the picture and the story, so this month although I really am not pleased with the picture I am going to share.

This was taken one Saturday evening, it is on our sofa with front facing camera on my phone, we had planned to take a Me and Mine shot this evening, but not this way, we had been out to dinner with my Dad and Stepmum and they were going to take it for us, but then poor Grayson has a nappy incident and bad Mummy forgot a change of clothes, so we had to wrap Grayson’s bottom half in my Cardi and rush home half way through our meal. It was such a shame as Grayson and Addison were in really good moods and all were wearing their matching tops. But this is our normal, by the time we took the shot, Grayson was half-naked, Deacon was over due a feed and Addison wanted to be back with Popsy and Granny.

November has been a busy month for us.

Daddy Is Loving

* Colder Weather

* Christmas List writing

* Addison’s expanding vocab

* Deacon becoming cheeky

Mummy Is Loving

* One on One time with my Babies

* Learning to bake Brioche

*Celebrating 9yrs of Marriage

* Giant Teacakes

Grayson Is Loving

* Walking everywhere he can

* Bouncing on the sofa

* Feeding himself at times

* Bouncing on the bouncy castle at Riley’s party

Addison Is Loving

* Going to Nursery

* Dinosaurs

* Play dates with friends

* Her little house

Deacon Is Loving

* Being able to sit for short periods

* Getting tickled on his toes

* Watching his brother and sister

* Being in his bigger cot

One of my biggest problems this year has been keeping our lives on track. We have missed hospital appointments, Birthdays and even fun days all because I did not have a diary.

Dreadful for me, I love lists and diary’s are just another form of this, so imagine my excitement when the very talked about Personal Planner contacted me and offered the chance to review my own personal planner.

I was instantly taken with their website and product as it offered so much choice, everything is customisable, which I love.

4 sizes give every option from a handbag sized planner to a large family sized diary that can sit on the kitchen counter, thankfully with big writing I need a slighter larger size but I still wanted to carry around so I never missed anything, I have a Mary Poppins sized bag so I went for A5.

When I say everything can be designed for you, it is true, your own images can be added to front and back covers or you can choose from so many pre loaded designs, I could not pick just one picture so I made up a mosaic for both the front and back of my babies of course, cute.

Then inside more choices than you could ask for, I was over the moon when I could decide to start my planner immediately, of course I could wait till 2014 but I knew we needed to get organised now, so mine started as end of November, I went for a week to page view with note space on each day. You can add everything from exercise plans/to do lists/weather/notes and much more on the bottom of each page, colours not standard your choice, as well as whether you want lines or just plain.

Here is my week view, what do you think, I have not only space for our family plans but also for my post schedules for my blog, it is really helping to keep me on track and very kindly personal planner ask you for a list of all important birthdays and they print these in the diary for you in advance, with peoples ages, no forgetting Birthdays now.

After the diary section with the A5 planner you also get 2 other sections in which you can custom chose what pages to include, there are so many choices, I went for many note pages (lined and squared) as I am forever writing lists, but what the geniuses at Personal Planner also offer (which I included) is pull out colouring pages, I am always when out with Addison getting stuck without something to entertain, well no more, there are pages of delight for her (and well me maybe) to enjoy.

I can not rave about my Personal Planner enough, with prices from £14 to £22 there is a planner for every budget and I think this is a such a reasonable price for such a customisable product that will keep my life on track, I am actually a lot in love with my planner and so excited as I get to gift one to one of your lucky lot. 

Just fill in the rafflecopter below. Good Luck.

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Disclosure – I was sent a personal planner to review, honestly I love the product this much and will buying every year from now on.