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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Review and Competition!

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Today I’m sharing our review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, along with a fabulous opportunity to win one of two copies of the DVD for your own family to enjoy!CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 CDRB1397UV_3D UV STICKER

Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his most infamous invention — a machine that turned water into food, causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. However, he soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals, or “foodimals!”  Now, Flint and his friends must embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world – again! Cloudy 6

As a family we all loved the original Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and I was apprehensive that a sequel might not live up to it’s predecessor, however this film is easily as amusing if not more so! It’s definitely a film that adults will chuckle along too as well as the kids. Cloudy 7

The foodimals are ridiculously cute and my kids cannot stop quoting the Strawberry who says ‘En-Woo!’ repeatedly. I really can’t recommend it enough especially without giving away the plot, but if you don’t pick up a copy soon you really are missing out!

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I have two copies of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on DVD to give away to readers of the blog! To be in with a chance of winning follow the instructions below.

How To Enter

Entering couldn’t be simpler, just pop over to the Angel Eden Blog Facebook page and hit ‘like’ then either click the widget below or the ‘Competition’ tab on the Facebook page to register your entry.

For extra entries either:

  • Leave a comment on this post (comments will be checked so make sure to leave one)
  • Follow me on Twitter
  • Tweet about the competition

The competition will end at midnight on 4th March 2014 (UK residents only please).

Make sure you leave me a way to contact you should you win :)  Good Luck!

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Justin & the Knights of Valour Review and DVD competition!

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Today I’m sharing our review of Justin & the Knights of Valour, along with a fabulous opportunity to win one of three copies of the DVD for your own family to enjoy!

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Young Justin lives in a kingdom without knights! He dreams of following in his Grandfather’s footsteps and becoming one of the famed Knights of Valour but his father wants him to settle down to a life without adventure. Inspired by his Grandmother Justin decides to follow his heart and embarks upon a daring quest to become a knight by himself.

Sounds like fine family fun, but did the film live up to the write up? I let my three young adventurers decide:

Sir G – I think it was the best film I’ve seen so far!

Lady I – It was brilliant and most of all I liked the girl who helps Justin.

Sir N – I really liked the whole film, it was really funny!

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So the kids loved it but what about us adults? In recent years and with the likes of Shrek, Despicable Me and the Pixar films, adults have been treated to family movies which also cater to our sense of humour and don’t have us nodding off in the corner. I wasn’t completely convinced I would enjoy Justin & the Knights of Valour but was pleasantly surprised. It doesn’t contain belly rumbling laughs which only parents understand, it’s much lighter and more delicately written than that. Some of the lip syncing seemed a little off in places (may have been my copy though I suppose) and I don’t think it’s a movie parents will watch entirely on their own, but for an afternoon with the kids or even as a simple way to occupy them it’s light hearted and sweet fun.

Win your own copy of Justin & the Knights of Valour on DVD!

I have three copies of Justin & the Knights of Valour on DVD to give away to readers of the blog! To be in with a chance of winning follow the instructions below.

How To Enter

Entering couldn’t be simpler, just pop over to the Angel Eden Blog Facebook page and hit ‘like’ then either click the widget below or the ‘Competition’ tab on the Facebook page to register your entry.

For extra entries either:

  • Leave a comment on this post (comments will be checked so make sure to leave one)
  • Follow me on Twitter
  • Tweet about the competition

The competition will end at midnight on 17th February 2014 (UK residents only please).

Make sure you leave me a way to contact you should you win :)  Good Luck!

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Valentines craft and card tutorial with Bostik!

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Today I’m bringing you my first Valentine craft and card tutorial as part of the Bostik Craft Bloggers Network. Every month Bostik send members of the network a pack containing crafty materials and challenge us to create something to share with our readers!

Bostik sent me:

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A tube of Bostik Glu & Fix all purpose glue

Blu Tack foam pads

2 blank white cards

A foil heart shape box

Foam heart shape

2 silver pom poms

A4 of red card

A4 sparkly red felt

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I enlisted my children and together we created two lovely cards and a tiny personalised book as a gift.

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Adding a badge onto a card creates a wonderful 3d element plus it doubles as a small gift.

IMG_6832Start by cutting two heart shapes from the red felt and gluing them together using the Bostik Glu & Fix. Next attach a badge back or safety pin through the back of the felt.

IMG_6833Cut another heart from the red card and glue onto the top right hand side of your greetings card. My daughter made the heart into a balloon and drew a woman holding it.

We then used the Blu Tack foam pads to attach the badge onto the top of the red heart on the card.

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My youngest son made this card on his own by sticking the sparkly foam heart onto the front of a card using the Bostik Glu & Fix. Then he decorated the card using felt tips. Finally he used the Blu Tack foam pads to attach the two silver pom poms to the front.

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My eldest son folded some plain white paper together to make a concertina and then we made a book cover from the red card and glued the concertina inside.IMG_6836

Next he drew all the things that he loves inside the book and placed it inside the foil gift box to present to his Daddy. 🙂

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The kids had a fabulous time getting creative and Daddy is sure to love his gifts come Feb 14th!

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