Peeps. When we visited my brother and his wife in New Jersey, you couldn't move for these brightly coloured marshmallows, bursting from every Easter display.​

I snuck several packets into my suitcase to use for an Easter sweet treat for the boys.

When I say treat, I mean the most indulgent, sugar stuffed treat on the planet!​

Smores are an American ​camp fire tradition. They are usually made with crackers but I chose to make ours with Melba toast and rice cakes. Ideally you roast the marshmallows over the fire and then squish them between the layer of chocolate and cracker.

In the absence of a fire we used the microwave! 5 seconds and a gooey wonder awaits you.​

Make your own with thin mini bars of chocolate and ordinary marshmallows!​ Enjoy!

My discovery for the weekend is a website that is so beautiful it hurts my eyes! I have never been so obsessed with crepe paper flowers. I have got to try these ranunculus  by Twigg Studios​. 

Happy Easter Saturday! We are down in Southbourne and I am off to buy crepe paper! ​

Chocolate. I love it and yet at this time of year I start to loathe it.​ Sticky fingers, hyper children, daily demands of the sweet stuff.

Here is my alternative to stuffing their, and your faces with chocolate this Easter. (Ours already have 4 eggs each in the fridge so I am not being a meanie!)​

​Top savoury ideas without a crisp in sight!

• Edamame beans
• Dried apple wriggly worms
• Wasabi peas
• Bean shoots
• Raw broccoli
• Cous cous
• Kiwi slices

How do you manage the chocolate excess over Easter?! Or do you just give in and indulge?! ​

Happy Good Friday, we are off to sunny Southbourne, what are you doing?​

I love Easter time but the full onslaught of chocolate hasn't even begun and I am already having to limit what the boys are eating!​

Egg hunts are fab but my boys enjoy the collecting part more than the eating, so they loved this hunt even though it was chocolate free. ​

Paint charts are great for all sorts of learning games as well as making fab stripey eggs.​

They don't have to be perfect, so take a stack of 5 or so and cut out your egg shape.​

I used dolly pegs to attach them to the trees in the little park near us. A real adventure that didn't cost a penny!​

We couldn't believe it when it started to snow, just before we left for the park. Sammy decided he needed to take a net with him to catch some flakes! Too cute!​

We made the bags last year. If you fancy making a no sew felt bag for your little one have a look here.​