High School Musical Clothes
With Christmas getting closer and High School Musical 3 being released at the end October 2008 it won’t be long before the mad shopping occurs for High School Musical clothes. We have a wardrobe full of these and other Disney theme clothes and I’m not really sure where we will be putting them, but I am sure that High School Musical clothes will be on the Christmas list this year again.
So what wonderful High School Musical fashion can we look forward to this year? First on the list for us at least will be High School Musical pyjamas and/or dressing gowns, never really a favourite choice with Skye but always handy to mix practical purchases with up to the minute fashion. Throw in some High School Musical underwear and that’s the practical purchases almost over for Christmas. For Skye however there will no doubt be at least some type of denim skirt on the list, well I hope its denim and not the cheerleaders skirt again. We will most likely see some jeans on the list as well and lots of different t-shirts with different characters on each one. Don’t forget the shoes and handbags as well all with matching logos!
The problem I have with High School Musical clothes is that the clothes they wear in the movies is far more tasteful than the clothes they sell to the kids, but my wife just says I’m over thinking it.
Other than the High School Musical clothes there will be the accessories to work out and the board games and the console games and anything else with a High School Musical logo on it. Luckily we have avoided the Nintendo Wii so far, so we won’t have to buy the dance game being released around the same time as the movie. Well at least we won’t have to buy it as long as we don’t have the Wii but that is a discussion that is dodged at least once a day at the moment.
Like everything that is popular with children around Christmas there will be the High School Musical clothes copies and rip off’s. To avoid copies we stay clear of anything that comes from Asia, that’s not to say they are all copies from this part of the world but the chances of them not being original are higher. We normally buy our kids stuff off EBay or from the local super market as shopping in stores like Toys-R-Us or the Disney store can sometimes work out expensive for items such as the High School Musical clothes.
The secret to avoid being ripped off is to start early doing the price comparisons and have a plan of were you want to look. For us here in Manchester, our house is in between 2 massive superstores; Asda and Tesco, so that’s our first port of call while doing the grocery shopping. Before we get there though we check out what is available on EBay as this is a wonderful window into what is out in the market place. Sometimes you will find a great bargain there as well.
The Plot
So how does it all come about that we parents have fork out for this stuff each year? Well what started as a Disney Channel TV movie in 2006 quickly became very popular the young kids and soon erupted into an international craze. The plot has been described as a modern day Romeo & Juliet with Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) playing the lovelorn couple. The story goes these two are from opposite groups but are pulled together when they audition for the lead parts in the High School Musical. Despite intervention from their friends who try everything to split them up they inevitably fall in love and become inseparable.
High School Musical 2 was released in 2007 and obtained more followers than before as Troy and Gabriella continued their relationship, this time working at a golf country club for the summer. Despite the efforts of Sharpey (Ashley Tisdale) to split the two up again they still manage to stay together. This is pretty much the same theme again for High School Musical 3 but this time the threat to Troy and Gabriela is the graduation and moving into the real world and out of High School.
The End
I hope I have given you some idea what High School Musical is all about and what sort of High School Musical clothes you can expect to be shopping for this Christmas but be warned its not only Christmas this stuff is popular for. Just recently we were invited to a High School Musical themed party were they had plates, cups, balloons, napkins and the like. So we were in a room full of kids wearing High School Musical clothes eating of High School Musical party packs and looking at High School Streams and posters and balloons. Where will this all end? Usually at the shops or on EBay.
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Wordpress Upgrade Crash
I recently tried to upgrade my blog to the new wordpress 2.7 and totally messed it up 
So here I am again at the start but I suppose it gives me a chance to get rid of a few posts that weren’t up to scratch and gives me another reason to try out some themes. Things will be changing often on the blog until i sort out a lot of the problems and get it the way i like it.
Hope I don’t break this time.
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High School Musical Clothes For Christmas
Christmas is a wonderful time for giving High School Musical clothes as presents to the young ones in your family. As well as for dressing up these outfits can be used for everyday wear so not only will the child be happy about getting something from High School Musical but the parents would be happy with the extra clothing for the children.
While looking for ideas for High School Musical clothes gifts don’t forget to consider the pyjamas, underwear and dressing gowns from the High School Musical range. These make ideal gifts for younger children who may just be discovering the show but not yet found their favorite character or for those you don’t know if they have a favorite in the show.
If they do have their favorite though then you will be spoilt for choice. You should easily find T-shirts, denim skirts or trousers with the logo and signature of their favorite person. T-shirts with the image of the High School Musical character will be popular with girls about 8 years or older but reconsider your purchase if child is older than 12. Personally I take this time to make sure I get the child something that will be useful most of the year round. I tend not to go for the dress up costumes at Christmas as there will be many other times throughout the year for these types of High School Musical clothes.
As you look about for High School Musical clothes as Christmas presents you may run into one problem, I know I do. Most of the clothing merchandise is targeted towards girls and finding something suitable for boys as a Christmas present can be problematic. In this situation I call upon the old favorite of stationary sets. High School Musical pens, pencils, coloring books, pencil cases etc are all very good gifts for boys that like High School Musical. You could always get them the Troy dress up outfit but I have yet to buy this as a present as most boys in out family want either Indiana Jones or something from Star Wars to dress up in.
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Welcome Post
Welcome to The Children’s Den. This is the first post of many that you will find here eventually but like everything else in the world you need to start somewhere.
So what’s this blog all about then? Well as you can probably see at the moment it’s not got a lot going on but in the coming months and years that will all change. These pages will be the ramblings, reviews and opinions of what our children liked as they grow up. Some of it will be written to help parents out with bored children and some of it will be the opinion of our children.
What will we be writing about? In a word everything! If it can be found in a child’s den then we will probably write about it. An example of some of the posts we have in mind include arts and crafts for kids, Disney DvD reviews, board games for families, electronic games now one of them has a Nintendo DS, computer games and educational software, dressup outfits for boys and girls, the list could go on and on but in short if it’s in the Children’s Den we’ll probably write about it at some point.
So who are WE? the easiest way to find out would be to jump over to the About Us page but in brief WE are the dad Brian, the Mum Emma, the oldest daughter Skye (6 years old ) and the youngest son Reefe (3 years old). Skye is at primary school and loves learning everything except numbers, Reefe is at pre-school and loves averything messy and noisy. What mum and dad do is boring and one thing we don’t want to do here is talk about boring stuff. 
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High School Musical Clothes Introduction
High School Musical was first released in 2006 as a Disney made for TV movie but it didn’t take long to capture the imagination of every child in the world. High School Musical clothes wasn’t something you would have seen a lot of that first year but after the release of the second movie most high street retailers stocked everyone’s favorite Troy or Gabriella outfit.
With High School Musical 3 the merchandise has stepped things up and now you can find High School Musical clothes for almost everyone in the movie.
These outfits are a great way to dress up for Halloween but they are also popular presents for Christmas and wonderful outfits for girls to wear to parties. Boys to can wear High School Musical clothes to parties but with the casual gym look of shorts and vest or track suit these would be more suited to everyday wear. Not to be left out there are plenty of everyday clothes for the girls as well.
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High School Musical Clothes For Everyday
Everyday High School Musical clothes are my daughter’s favorite. She comes home from school and can’t wait to get into her jeans or bright red track pants. At weekends she spends more time than her mum in choosing which top to wear and who will accompany her on the shopping trip.
The range of everyday High School Musical clothes is almost endless with everything from the classic t-shirt with the logo emblazoned across the front to those with images of your favorite character or the full team. There are sweatshirts, hoodie tops, long sleeve tops, and jackets. These tops can be pink, white, blue or black, they can be mixed colors or single colors they can different colored hood’s or arms or both. The pattern could be anything from a single letter ‘E’ to the full troop of dancers and singers jumping about. There are flowers, stars, fireworks the lot and we all wait while she chooses what from all of this she would like to wear
For the bottom half of the ensemble we have jeans with stars on the pockets or flowers embroidered onto the bottom of the legs, we have track pants with letters across the bum area and mini skirts made from denim or cotton. Again these come in a variety of colors and most will have diamante on them somewhere.
In general I don’t have any problem with my daughters choice in High Scholl Musical clothes I just wish there wasn’t such a large range for her to choose from.
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Marbles Game
As a young boy I always had glass marbles in my pocket or school bag and at any moment ready for a challenge. This was just the same as conkers but this was an annul event and usually died out by the Christmas period. Marbles however was something that could be played year round and the thought of being challenged when you didn’t have your marbles was the cause of sleepless nights for me.
All grown up and adult like I was surprised to find the same competitive edge was lurking deep down and during a recent game with the kids I got all upset about them breaking the rules (she is 6 he is 3 now). Unfortunately turning to Emma for some support was earth shattering in two ways. One, she chastised me for being a child and that i shouldn’t be see hard with the kids and rules, as if that will ever happen. Something I have learnt real fast is that kids make up rules if you don’t give them any. When playing within the rules if they can’t win they wil have no problems changing the rules to suit. S We have rules during our games! But more shocking was that wive of 15 years and should mate for more than 20 years didn’t know how to play marbles!
Yes can you believe that someone in this world has never played marbles as they grow up, what a deprived childhood she must have had. Anyway she will get over that quickly with a run through of the rules and how to play. Now the problems really start, have you ever tried to describe how to play a game so simple that it should be easy but with so many different parts to it that you talk so much you forget what you were trying to do.
Anyway no problem i thought there really should be something online about how to play marbles, and if I’m lucky the rules as well. Land of Marbles. com is the place if you ever want to get anything to do with marbles they have the rules as well and to cut a long boring story short I was right and won that game of marbles. What i didn’t expect though was Reefe the little 3 year old took all the marbles and hurled them hard across the room. So although i was happy I had won I wasn’t that happy at having to move all the furniture to recover all the marbles. Well you win some - you lose some!
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Jessie Doll
Skye just had her 7th birthday and after a great deal of talking about, planning and shopping for High School musical clothes it turns out that it was the Jessie doll from Toy Story 2 that she really wanted. After the disappointement of not wanting to dress as Sharpie for Halloween or even as an understated Gabriella I should have seen the signs. But it was only last weekend that she sat for almost 4 hours and watched the High School Musical DVD’s, both 1 & 2, so I thought High School Musical clothes were definitely back on the shopping list.
What do I ever know about shopping especially for girls. I’m beginning to panic now about what to start buying for Christmas as I already had my shopping list set out. Well, when I say I had the shopping set out, what I really mean is that Emma has it all worked out and I’m invited along to carry the bags and made to feel that somehow my input did have some weight.
At the moment however I don’t think getting anything to do with High School Musical show is such a good thing. One of her birthday presents was in fact a Hannah Montana t-shirt and you would have thought it was the best present ever, wait maybe it was. Maybe I’ve got this all wrong and its not High School Musical clothes she wants but Hannah Montana clothes.
Well at least I’ve got something else to work on now.
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High School Musical Clothes For Halloween
Getting to look like your favorite character from High School Musical can be as easy as heading to your closet or you could buy a full High School Musical Clothes outfit from the store.
To be like athletic Troy all you would need is a white track suit with red strips down the side, then add an E logo to the breast pocket area of the top and there you have a very easy High School Musical costume. More complicated would be the Troy gym kit outfit. You would need to get a red sports vest and matching shorts then get a wildcat’s logo created in felt to Iron on to the top. With both these outfits all that would be missing is a basketball and a pair of sneakers. The basket ball should be similar to a beach ball, who wants to carry a ball about ALL night.
Beautiful Gabriella would be made by combining a shiny red vest with a velvet skirt and some red shoes. The true designer among you should actually combine these two items to make a dress for Gabriella but for Halloween we really want to be making easy High School Musical clothes.
Sharpay is the glitzy one in the group and to make here outfit would take a lot of sewing and adding. Putting together a Sharpey costume is not for the faint hearted among us and is probably best left for parties.
For a general High School Musical costume you could always make the cheerleaders outfit. Just look for an ordinary red and white cheerleaders outfit, preferably in a shiny material, and add EHS to the chest of the outfit.
There you have it simple yet easy High School Musical clothes for Halloween.
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Hand Foot and Mouth in Chidren
As a parent teaching your children is part and parcel of life as they grow up. Yet every day as a parent you learn something new as well. About 3 years ago Emma discovered she had spots all over the soles of her feet and the palms of her hands. A visit to the doctor was not helpful who said that it was probably stress related and want to start her on anti-depression tablets. Unhappy with the reported problems of such medication Emma decided that she would just leave them a few weeks and see how things went.
Two weeks after the doctors visit and all the spots had gone, as well as the stress of having the spots! What has that got to do with parents still learning you may ask, well recently our little lad came home from day care complaining about a sore mouth. Upon investigation we noticed he had ulcers on his tongue and cheeks so it was off to the doctors with this one.
Hand foot & mouth was the outcome! The daycare centre had a small outbreak of this viral disease, nothing really to worry about as it usually subsides after 3-4 days. Sometimes the ulcers can cause problems with drinking and eating but for our lad that didn’t seem to be a problem. He still managed to eat some of his lunch and evening meal and to help him with the ulcers ice cream was the best medication we came up with, better that the gel the doc gave us.
Here comes the learning part. Our daughter who is six didn’t get anything of the hand, foot & mouth but us mum and dad got some real irritating spots on our hands and feet, not dis-similar to those Emma got 3 years ago and things all started to fall into place now. Our daughter went to the same day centre and must have contracted a mild form of this hand, foot & mouth back then and passed this onto Emma who just had given birth. Probably a bit low, her immune system would have been unable to fight this as much as other adults who are not suppose to get hand, foot & mouth.
The spots are not as severe as those Emma had but they are definitely the same type of spots. So what did we learn about this? Adults can contract hand, foot & mouth from their children. Even though told by a doctor that he could go to day care they wouldn’t let him in, so doctors don’t know everything. But the most depression thing we learnt is that doctors are very quick to get people onto anti-depression drugs, why this is I’m not really sure but if your doctors answer to most illnesses is stress and depression maybe its time to find a new doctor, I know we did.
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