We are back in school… it took a while and we took it slow, but we have found our rhythm. I seem to be embracing slow blogging, it may have something to do with the volume of books I have been reading – there is some sort of a book reading binge going on over here, it started small but it is turning out to be huge… I predict a reading post in the next week or two.
Otherwise, we have been posting away on instagram… because it has simply been too hot and windy to do much else. Not to mention so much email… clearly while we took a break the world decided to drop us an email, I guess I am getting to it, but right now my gang wants to be swimming and so I am spending my afternoons beside the swimming pool, not wanting to waste a moment of summertime… no offence, but email can ever so slightly wait a little bit.
Lovely Links from This Week
- Imagine Childhood’s Animal Track Cookies… I totally love!!!
- How to make a Book and fill it with Stuff via The Guardian.
- The sweetest post I have read in forever: A Father Gets His Child to Read… on Fatherly.com
- I stumbled upon this on twitter… who knew South Africa had a Walking Festival… What a fabulous idea!!!
- Before the Birds and the Bees by Tim Challies… Galactic Yes!!!
- Why Daughters Need Their Dads on LifeWay.com… This is a must read, especially for dads who think they don’t matter.
A Blast From the Past:
- 2009: A Triathlon Party in Se7en Steps…
- 2010: Se7en Thoughts About Babies and Sleep…
- 2011: Se7en’s Take on the Best Toys and Sharing and Caring…
- 2012: Se7en + 1 Tips for Getting All That School Reading Done…
- 2013: You Really Don’t Have to Listen to those Inner Critics…
- 2014: Visiting the Castle of Good Hope…
- 2015: Se7en+1 Ways to Stop Racing Ahead and Just Take a Break…
And the se7en + 1th link:
International Book Giving Day is on the Way
A couple of folk have emailed me about this already… so excited to hear our readers are good and ready to go with this project again… and I will be getting back to you folk with all the details as soon as we are good to go!!!
GiveAway Winners
All the entries…
Mixed in the mug…
After picking and choosing, the winners are:
Ronél: Jan 13, 2016 at 10:56 pm I love looking back through my old diaries and remembering all the fun stuff I would otherwise completely forget! The pink would make a lovely gift for my niece.
Alex: Jan 12, 2016 at 8:44 am I would love the blue diary 
We would like to thank MapStudio who supplied us with diaries to review. We were not paid for the review and the opinions expressed in it are as usual, entirely our own.
That’s us… Hope you all have a fabulous week!!!
Oh I love your best nine – so colourful. Was that shell a folding project – origami or something
Thank you Cat, it is surprising how representative the best nine turned out to be!!! ANd yes that is an origami nautilus by the great origami artist that you can find on instagram @white_onrice Hope you have a fabulous day!!!
A fun list of links this week!
Alex was sooooo excited!
Thanks Christi, It’s been a slow start to the year… and reading blogs wasn’t really part of it!!! So it was a bit of a hunt to find the best of the rest!!! Hope you have had a good week!!!
Oh dvs, I was pretty excited myself… so glad she entered. Hope you had a great week!!!