Uncle Billy’s Shop
When you get a phone call from my Uncle Billy at 9pm at night it can only mean one thing: He’s 5 minutes away from your house and he wants you to put the kettle on. So I did. He was calling in on his...
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It’s Tuesday. There are still the remains of trashy food, booze and 30th birthday balloons roaming around our house like the last guests to leave the party. I turned 30 on Thursday last week and have...
View Article8 Things You Should Care About
I don’t often talk about my work on here. I reckon most people know what I do and keep up with our social media outlets for information but this week feels significant. This Friday, October 18th...
View Article8 Things You Should Care About: Part II
Following on from yesterdays post about the different issues that we must consider when we want to do something about human trafficking, here are my second four. - Gender Inequality When you consider...
View ArticlePotty Training Woes
Dudes, I am going a little crazy. On Thursday I mopped up 4 pee-pees (2x on the floor & 2x on the sofa – one of which he swooshed around with his hand after finishing. Leather sofas, thankfully)...
View ArticleThanksgiving 2013
It’s becoming a bit of a tradition that each year we host a big bellied Thankgiving dinner for our pals to pay homage to my ‘lived-half-my-life-in-Canada’ heritage. Shame it wasn’t accompanied by a...
View ArticleDIY Clay Ornaments
6 weeks until Christmas. SIX. WEEKS. I’m not a Christmas frenzy-type person, but I do love an excuse to deck the halls and be extra thoughtful about the people I love. While potty-training (which...
View ArticleIt’s just a week, right?
I’m currently gearing up for a week away in Rio, Brazil (I felt I had to specify the country ‘Brazil’ as opposed to the cinema Rio, which is what comes up first when you google ‘Rio’ – SERIOUSLY,...
View ArticleSights of Rio
Dudes, Rio is nuts. I can’t believe I’m back home already. Everyone survived my week away – almost too well actually. Dave and Levi are best buds and have had lots of adventures in my absence. I’ve...
View ArticleA Very Wiggy Advent
I spent all of last night winging together a DIY advent calendar for our family. It involved loo rolls, candy striped party bags, origami envelopes, jute string and a shed load of washi tape. It...
View ArticleDIY PAINTED BEADS
Glad tidings! Our tree is up, my parents arrive from Canada in a couple of weeks and we are on the wind-down to some serious breathing space as a family. Life is well hectic, isn’t it? This week has...
View ArticleA Very Wiggy Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone! Festivities peaked yesterday and we are all nursing our food hangovers in the Wiggy house today. I have loved the build up to Christmas this year. For a while in my 20′s I...
View Article2013 Reflections
I am rubbish at reflecting. I think most of us are. It’s such an important skill to hone and muscle to flex because it allows you to pause and take stock. To weigh things up before swooshing on to...
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Ah, it’s 12:30pm and I’m still in my jammies and dressing gown. The last day of this kind of bliss (until Thursday and Friday – I do this most Thursdays and Fridays). We’ve not been up to much except...
View ArticleFresh Finds Friday
Happy Weekend folks! I can smell and taste again! HURRAY! After a couple of weeks of battling a nasty sinus infection/flu-like things, I am finally feeling a bit more human. I want to get a little...
View Article6 Favourite Non-Toxic Beauty Products
I’m a sucker for beauty products. A total sucker. You might remember that a couple of years ago my friend told me about the book Gorgeously Green and it changed the way I spent my money on products and...
View ArticleFresh Finds Friday // 2
Continuing on from last week – here’s the next installment of all the interesting/fun/pretty things I’m digging this week: INTERESTING THINGS: - Michael Gove (Education Secretary) wants to turn our...
View ArticleToddler Craft: Watercolour Garland
Come hell or literal high water, we were going to the beach today. So we did. We miraculously left the house at 10am (2 out of 3 of us even showered!) and headed to Newcastle prepared to face the...
View ArticleTour: Studio Wiggins
Last week I climbed into bed a did a quick scan on our local Gumtree on my phone using my usual key-word search: ‘retro’ ‘vintage’ etc and couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a retro cabinet listed....
View ArticleFresh Finds Friday // 3
Welcome back! Another post of delights to slide you right into the weekend! INTERESTING THINGS: - Gemma loves Dan. They are getting married in October and she is raging against the bride-machine and...
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