Alternative Blog Names!

I should have started writing a blog several months ago. Many posts were written mentally and ideas noted of things I loved from other blogs, that I much enjoy reading. Posting on my own was something which I was keen to do. However, procrastination, indecisiveness and general dithering over what I should call my blog got in the way. Every time I decided on a title, I doubted whether it was catchy enough, if it summed up me and my little brood well and countless other doubts too. So, her are some of the other blog names on the list!

• Somewhere in the Middle- we live in the midlands, and I find myself sitting 'in the middle' on most things: we babywear sometimes, we grow our own (but not loads)... you get where this is going!
• Beanie, Moo and Mama too- me and my little ducklings... but I didn't want to leave dad out!
• Butterflies and Buttons- two of my favourite things. I just love butterflies, hence the banner, and buttons too.
• Wonder mama- not because I'm big headed or anything like that. Trust me, I'm far from wonderful! More that I seem to constantly hurry and rush these days!
• Time for another coffee?- Isn't it always? Not the instant kind, or those awful cappuccinos from a machine where you just press the button. But proper filter coffee. Freshly made.
• Mummy to the Monkeys- and they are little monkeys! One is going through a 'mountain goat' stage, of climbing on everything! So maybe mummy and the Kids? In the nicest possible way, of course!
• Adventures of our Free Range Family-  I do like to think that we allow our children to be a little free range. We use gentle discipline and like them to explore outdoors. We like them to be their own little people and explore at their own will. There are a few 'free range' titled blogs that I've stumbled across and enjoyed. They do, however, all seem to be much more free range than us though, and give me something to aspire to, both in how we encourage our children to learn and grow and in the lifestyle of our family.

But in the end Make, Do and Mend won the day. I know the phrase is more 'Make-do and mend', but I like it the way I've written it. I hope to use this blog to show you the things we have made, to talk about the things we do as a family and also that it will bring out our up-cycling/mending skills! It sums up the things we enjoy; boot sales, thrift and charity shops and also making and mending from various other sources!