Yellow food is good

Currently enjoying lots of melted cheese on toast. So is La. Yum!

Mibo paper animals (giveaway)

They're the Yolk Folk! Meet Sophia Le Hen, Eggory Peck and Cluck Gable.
1 of the fabulous range of paper animal packs by mibo (UK) now at our store.
All you need is scissors and glue and you can make these chickies too!
Other packs include: Wise Guys (owls), Forest Friends (woodland creatures) and Carrot Crew (yep, rabbits).
Great activity for ages 6+ (including adults!)
Decorate your room or next party table top with a set of paper animals.

GIVEAWAY!

Who wants a pack? me me me me!
Just follow this blog and then leave me a comment below stating which pack you'd love to win and where they would live in your home once made.
Winner selected randomly (from correctly entered entries) on 1st Feb. 2011.

Fair trade ice creams

They're back! Lark's fabulous knitted ice cream rattles in 3 delicious flavours. Sure to get baby drooling and will cool off pretend playtime with the older kids! (My girls keep them in the pretend kitchen freezer for those really hot days...)

They are hand knitted by a women's fair trade collective in Bangladesh.

This one here is Vanilla and as it's yellow, it's 15% off until the end of January. Yummo!
Also available in Strawberry (pink) and Pistachio / Mint (green), available in the rattles and squeakers section... naturally.

I heart this

 

Today's yellow image is provided by Cathie, who's blog (m.e) I follow.

There is always lots of things to be grateful of, yummy things to cook and lovely creative images to look at.

Got something yellow for me to post? Email me at info[at]beyondpinkandblue[dot]com with a link or image and anything you want me to know! x

Make a Hope Softie!

Can you sew, knit, crochet, felt.....? Make a little softie for a child to cuddle and be-friend, in a time when they most probably have nothing familiar around them.
Lots of families are sheltering now at emergency centres and something little like this would be soooo comforting! Don't you think?
Head on over to Steph's blog and grab all the details.

Sunshine for our Sunshine state

At the moment I'm by myself at home and have had time to reflect on the devastation in Queensland. I think a bit of sunshine from our hearts needs to be sent to that part of our sunny country.
A couple of years ago, you may remember, I was running Rainbow Comfort Packs for the Children effected by the Victorian Bush fires. It was close to home, so became automatic for me to do it.
My questions to you all are:
1. Do you feel you want to help in some way, but don't know how or have the funds?
2. If you remember the Rainbow Comfort Packs, do you think you'd like to contribute to this idea again?

A refresher or to briefly enlighten those who don't know what I'm talking about when I mention Rainbow Comfort Packs, read about them here, when we were doing them for the Vic. Bush fires.
If this begins again, there will be more control as to what goes into the packs and better co-ordination with what we need etc.

Anyway, please leave your thoughts, ideas and links to auctions etc that are raising funds for this cause.
Stay safe. Mon x

Yellow in any language

Yellow Submarine

I loved (and still do actually!) the movie Yellow Submarine by The Beatles. In fact Mr bpab and I collected the figurines when they came out. The girls have not been allowed to 'play' with them and thus reside in a giant cardboard box on top of a cupboard. ONE day we will get them out and re-enact the movie, but for now.....

Look up you tube for Yellow Submarine video clips, actually better still, get a copy of the movie and just sit down with the kiddies and watch it. Blow their little minds.

January means yellow

Let's celebrate how wonderfully sunny the colour YELLOW is this month!
There is 15 % off all YELLOW products at beyond pink and blue for the month of January.
I'll even do some YELLOW themed posts on this here blog.
You can join in by leaving comments about yellow stuff etc. How fun!
Got something you'd love to have appear on the rainbow blog that's YELLOW related? Email me (info [at] beyondpinkandblue [dot] com) all the details with pictures and I'll do my best to get it up here. Even funner!!