Totseat teams up with Paddington Bear™ with two new designs

The ever popular portable fabric baby travel chair by Totseat has joined forces with the adorable Paddington Bear™ to create two new designs. 

The new Paddington™ range will be in stock from next week (28th November 2014) to coincide with the release of the first ever live action film Paddington™, bringing Michael Bond's best-selling books to life.

Be the first to preorder the new design on our Tums To Tots online baby shop  and let your little ones dine out with the loveable adorable Paddington™ Bear, guaranteed to be a hit with your little one.

New in Stock the Newborn Gift sets for Boys and Girls by Hippychick

Christmas is round the corner... well yes kind of, but I know a shed load of people who have already embarked on the 'Christmas List' for loved ones.... so you have a new addition and what do you get a newborn baby... simple... a Hippychick Newborn Baby gift box.

The gift boxes come in two different sizes, standard and premium to cater for different budgets. All the gifts within the boxes are selected from our best sellers, so are bound to be hit with babies (and lets face it more importantly mums and dads).

Packed within the standard box is a pair of super soft shoes, a muslin and bandana style bib.

The Premium baby gift box has the same super soft adorable baby shoes, and also a cotton fleece baby blanket and soft cuddly toy.

So that's the newborn baby present sorted, tick... now for the rest of the family!

New in the BabaSling® Baby Carrier - New in the Cosy Edition

Check out our new range of stylish baby slings to transport your little ones around in. We simply love these baby carriers, not only are they truly practical, not having to lug a buggy in and out of your car, but they cocoon the baby in a safe and nurturing way, keeping them close to the warmth of mum or dad. 

With 5 different carrying positions it also enables mums to breastfeed their babies in a discreet way when out and about.  

They come in a range of styles and colours, the light weight version, classic (with a limited edition print), organic cotton range, and new in today the cosy range... with a snug TOG 2.0 rating these are just perfect for the colder chillier days of winter.

The Babasling® comes in a huge range of colours... just visit our shop www.tumstotots.com to view the full range of designs.

Funky Fun Travel Bags for Kids by Samsonite

I've been itching to write about these kids bags which are new to my shop, TumsToTots. These children's suitcases are from the Sammies range by Samsonite so are of a high quality and come in a multitude of popular designs which are just so much fun for children. 

I know the holiday season is slowly approaching and these children's bags are just the ticket. We all know how little people like to be all grown up mini adults, and these funky kids' suitcases will fuel their independence allowing all the 'mini me's' out there to strut around and show off these suitcases with pride. All the children's suitcases have wheels and extendible handles so the children can easily roll their precious belongings around.

The kids travel bags by Samsonite are strong and sturdy, and made from a robust 330d x 300d polyester. Alternatively there are some hard upright bags amongst the "My First Samsonite" selection such as the fruity pear, car and sweets design.

Depending on the design of the travel bag the average volume capacity of the suitcase is approx 19 litres so is there is ample room for all those little treasures. 

I just love the designs that Samsonite have thought of (must have been fun doing the market research for these bags). You have the car and sweet designs which are new to the range this year and then there are the old favourites; bumble bee, ladybird, crocodile, dragon, chick, dog, butterfly, elephant and my favourite the owl.

Fun Loving Funny Face Range from Samsonite include the ladybird, crocodile and buzzy bee

 New in the kids car and sweet upright suitcases by Samsonite

Adorable Sammies Dream collection include the puppy, chick, elephant, dragon, butterfly and my personal favourite the ....

...Owl

Samsonite haven't scrimped on the detail too - where appropriate the bags may have little feet, flappy ears, waggy tails,  fluttery wings which add to the loveability of these travel suitcases for children. In addition they all have straps within the bag to hold precious treasures in place, an address label or tag, sturdy wheels, extendible handle and an additional carry handle.

And the details:

All Sammies Children's bags include robust wheels, extendible handle and carry handle, luggage tag and internal bag straps 


I know these bags for children would add that extra special element to their holiday experience and would make the ideal gift or present for a little boy or girl. They don't even have to be used for holiday,  maybe the odd sleep over at grandparents or friends. Whatever the occasion these beautiful kids bags are guaranteed to bring a smile to a little persons face.

Spongebob Squarepants Cake

I think my son has to be one of the biggest fans of SpongeBob SquarePants and when it came to his birthday I thought I'd fuel his obsession even more with a Spongebob Squarepants cake. 

It was actually dead easy to make (trust me I always look for the easy option not to complicate life). 

I made the cake using a square cake tin and once baked trimmed off one side to make the cake a rectangular shape. Then the cake was sliced in half and filled with butter cream and jam and sandwiched together.

Then came the fun part - decorating the cake. Melt some apricot jam (try and get the smooth jam without bits in) in a bowl over heated water. Once the jam is runny brush it all over the cake to make the icing stick.

I tend to get my icing pre-coloured from the shops. I'm a bit of an eBay fan and  you can pretty much get any colour you're after on eBay, but loads of supermarkets have now started selling ready made coloured icing too (probably sparked by all the celebrity baking TV shows - Great British Bake Off springs to mind here). Buying ready coloured icing saves on having to colour it yourself and I've generally found if you colour it yourself the colours aren't nearly as vibrant as ones you can buy ready made. 

The colours I bought for this Spongebob Cake were yellow, red, black, brown (which has a chocolate flavour yum)  and white. As I didn't need much for the green spots, pink tongue and blue eyes and the colours didn't need to be as strong I just made these up by mixing some colouring with the white icing. 

After the yellow was rolled out, I cut a straight line across the bottom if the icing and placed it over the top half of the cake - covering about 3/4 of the cake. The chocolate brown was then rolled out - one side cut with a straight line again and then placed over the other bottom quarter of the cake butting up to the yellow. A band of white was cut to cover the join. (as you can see I'm still very much an amateur here). The main tool I needed were my circle cutters which came in 3 sizes. All you need is to cut out the relevant colours and stick them onto the yellow base (teeny brush of water helps to stick them on). 

Then all the other shapes were cut out black stitching  a rolled yellow nose, black mouth, pink tongue  black eyelashes, yellow arms and little white triangles for the shirt collar.

Yes, before anyone mentions it I didn't include legs, but you know what I don't think my three year old even noticed - detail again which I felt not needed (easy life moto).

Really enjoyed making this cake and the all important little man loved it too. 

I've got loads more cakes (not all mine) to add to my blog roll and will hopefully manage to list some more in-between all the blogging updates of new stock to my shop www.TumsToTots.com

If you've got any cake pics you'd like me to share please send them over. I'd be more than happy to add them on :-)

All Profits Today (Fri 15th March) to Red Nose Day

Red Nose Day today - as I watched my little ones trundle off to school with their hair all spiked up wearing their red tops, my son asked me what I'll be doing... which got me thinking.... how about I'll donate all the profit, not a penny less, from anything I sell today from my shop TumsToTots

I've already sold some of my bright coloured Wooden Alphabet Letters earlier this morning, so go on have a squiz at www.tumstotot.com, it's all for a great cause:-)

Happy Red Nose Day!

The Perfect Mother's Day Cake

Firstly "Happy Mother's Day" to all the lovely mums out there for this weekend... hope you get a chance to put your feet up! I thought I'd share with you all this lovely chocolate cake was made (sadly not by myself - my talents don't stretch to these high standards!) for my mother-in-law's birthday. If any children (aka dads) are looking for any inspiration for mothers day this is one stunning cake which will definitely go down well with mums out there - chocolate and flowers - need I say any more!!!

I've got loads more cakes (not all mine) to add to my blog roll and will hopefully manage to squeeze some more in-between all the blogging updates of the fab new items in my shop www.TumsToTots.com.

If you've got any cake pics you'd like me to share please send them over. I'd be more than happy to add them on.

Thanks to Nise (the cake queen) for sharing :-)