Boomfest 2011 – Colourscape – Weston super Mare

We visited this FREE festival that offered a variety of professional cultural and creative arts performances and workshops for all ages through dance including street dance and free running, live music, theatre, film, comedy, performance poetry, graffiti, BMX-ing, skateboarding and art exhibitions.

Well my favourite bit about it was the Colourscape, and was one of the reasons I popped down 😀 It’s a amazing experience, you are given coloured cloaks to wear and on entering remove your shoes and go on in entering all different coloured sections with musicians in the main section…

If you would like to find out where Colourscape will be next – check out their site http://www.eyemusic.org.uk/COLOURSCAPE/HOME.html

Our Chicken Pox Experience with Pox Clin Mousse

Well it’s been 10 days since my daughter came out in the pox! It has been hard work not going anywhere apart from solo escaping from me! I have felt very sorry for her but lucky for her she had it quite easy and is just now left looking scabby and with a cough 😦 We were recommended antihistimine syrup and Pox Clin Mousse – which I had never heard of but I must say was a lot easier and less messy to use. Especially as she didn’t want me to touch her ‘spots’ as we called them! You had to apply 3 times a day and the good thing about the less mess was being a independant 4 and a half year old she could do it herself if she choose to 🙂 And it goes a long way, I now have it on stand-by waiting to see if my 1 and a half year old little boy is going to suddenly turn ‘spotty’!

You can get Pox Clin Mousse 100ml from Boots for £10.47, this has been a personal review and I did not recieve the product for free.

My hubbys favourite meal…chicken pie!

This evening I ask my hubby what he wanted for tea and gave him the options, immediately after chicken pie was mentioned – ‘chicken pie’ was chosen!

So I decided to make chicken and mushroom pie and serve with carrots and peas, not sure where I got the base recipe from but if you fancy it here goes:

Skinless chicken breasts 3-4, chopped into 2cm cubes

Plain flour

1 medium onion, chopped

1 potato, chopped

250ml vegetable/chicken stock

1 sheet puff pastry

2 tsp milk

*Optional: Carrots, Mushrooms, Peas

Toss chicken cubes into flour – shake off excess. Combine meat,  *carrots and stock in a medium pan – bring to the boil then simmer covered for 45 minutes or until chicken cooked. Transfer to dish and allow to cool for 10 minutes. *Add peas and mushrooms and place pastry over filling – trim to fit dish, add decoration if wish and make 2 small cuts in top. Brush with milk and bake in oven at 200c for 15 minutes 🙂 Serve with gravy if desired – we do!

Enjoy x

Three by nine meme

All you have to do is answer the nine questions below and then tag three of your blogging buddies so that you can learn a little something new about each other, so here you go:

Heres my three by nine…

Three names I go by:   Emma, Ems, Mummy
Three places I’ve lived:   Weston-super-Mare,Weston-super-Mare, Weston-super-Mare!
Three places I’ve worked:   Scallys, Masquerade, NHS
Three things I love to watch:   Glee, Horror Movies, Twilight
Three places I have been & love:   Venice, Disneyland, London
Three people that email me regularly:   Elaine, Kathryn, Becky
Three things I love to eat:   Chinese, Cheese, Chocolate
Three people I think will respond:   Elaine, Natalie, Becky
Three things I am looking forward to:  Business launch, Butlins, Summer

I’d love to read a “three by nine” meme post by: Elaine, Natalie & Becky

New Website coming soon…

So we shall soon be launching the Stars & Roses website with a fantastic special offer to introduce you to all our gorgeous new products.  Unfortunately later then we had expected due to technical issues (Elaine’s laptop packed in!) But we are back on track to launching very soon.  So to keep up to date join us on facebook or twitter so your the first to find out!

Hello Blogging world!

I’m here, finally!