WordPress is a reliable and fantastically versatile platform for blogs and websites, and these days many many different types of sites are run on it.

If you need help setting up or running your WordPress site, Barbara Saul and her team over at the Blogmistress offer all sorts of expert support  and services for WordPress.

They can install and host your WordPress site for you, move your existing site to WordPress, update plugins and themes, check your site’s security and rescue it when something’s gone horribly wrong. They also offer online training to help you get to grips with WordPress so that you can work on your own website.

Have a look at the Blogmistress site and see how they can help you improve your business or personal blog or website.

Africa on the Blog has a new business directory.

A business listing costs only £5 and job vacancy listings are £10. It’s a perfect opportunity to promote your business, plus get a link back to your site, and do something worthwhile for others too. Africa on the Blog supports two young girls in Uganda, Perfect and Princess, and all donations from the business directory go towards helping support them.

It’s a new directory so there are only a handful of businesses listed at the moment – why not pop over and add yours too?

With space at a premium in many modern kitchens, more and more people are turning to pull out larders as practical, compact and attractive storage solutions.

Pull out larders make excellent use of limited space, and can optimize awkward spaces. They slide out easily giving you very convenient access to all your groceries. For even easier access, a rotary larder unit is an excellent option.

Our pull out larders come complete with fixing materials and fitting instructions, and are available in a wide range of sizes.

At Kitchen Kitten we have a fabulous range of larders and pull out storage, including swing out pantry units, pull out towel rail units, and mulitpurpose pull out units, which are ideal for neatly storing chopping boards, kitchen knives and other utensils.

Visit the Kitchen Kitten website for lots of choice, at great prices.

Red poppy on black background

Patterned glass splashbacks are an innovative and exciting development in contemporary kitchen design, and we have a wonderful selection here at Kitchen Kitten.

We have many beautiful floral splashbacks including a rich red stem rose, delicate poppies and stunning sunflowers. And we have a great selection of designs that are exclusive to our group, including our gallery of popular splashbacks by Nita Joy Designs which features truly stunning floral images set against simple black backgrounds.

Also exclusive to our group is a stunning close-up of a lily on an elegant pewter grey background, and a simple, stylish and very beautiful, white tulip on a black background.

Green lily bud splashback

Our vibrant lime green lily bud splashback has been designed exclusively for us and makes a real statement in your kitchen.

Do you have a favourite landscape photo, perhaps from a holiday filled with special memories, or simply of a location you love? With your high resolution photo we can make a landscape splashback to your design, or we have a selection of images you can choose from.

You can also choose a design from our modern and very stylish range of black and white splashback designs with contemporary geometrics and flowers.

Lily on grey background

We can manufacture your splashback to your exact requirements and you can choose from our standard sizes, or we will manufacture to any size you need. With our digital design service you can have literally any photographic image for your splashback, giving you complete control over the design, colours and themes in your kitchen.

Visit Kitchen Kitten for more ideas and inspiration for a unique, beautifully designed kitchen at an affordable price.

HD LED Square downlights

Good kitchen lighting is essential for food preparation, cooking and cleaning, but gone are the days when functional, and sometimes harsh, fluorescent strip lighting was your main option. Kitchen lighting can be creative, fun and innovative, as well as practical.

Clever use of lighting will complement and enhance your kitchen design and fittings, and create a wonderful atmosphere. With kitchen spotlights you can highlight your special glassware and crockery, or really bring out the warmth and tones of a solid wood worktop. And our patterned splashbacks look even more stunning when highlighted.

We have a great selection of kitchen lights at Kitchen Kitten, including plinth lighting, down lights, cornice and wall lights and LED strip lights and light bars.

LED strip lights are an excellent way to create ambient lighting. They look great as edging inside cabinets or perhaps attached to the top of a glass splashback to create an interesting splash of light and highlight its gorgeous colours.

Our LED kitchen drawer lights look lovely and with a built-in infrared sensor activated by movement are innovative solutions for lighting drawers. They’re battery operated and very easy to fit.

This is just a small selection of our kitchen lights – for lots of choice, and more information, visit the Kitchen Kitten website.

Magic Corner

Our excellent range of kitchen corner units and magic corners is even better value at the moment, with 15% off until the 30th June!

What better time to clear out the dark, cluttered and awkward-to-reach recesses of your kitchen corner cupboard, and fit it with a sleek, smooth, ultra-stylish and convenient pull out kitchen corner shelving unit, or a magic corner?

The shelves on these units work on an interior spindle or rail mechanism meaning your kitchen items are easily accessible because the shelves automatically draw out either when you open the cupboard door, or when you gently pull on the front of the unit to extend it fully. And when you’ve finished, the unit folds smoothly back into the furthest corner of your cupboard.

pull out corner unit

Our range includes a high capacity two tier pull out shelving corner unit with laminated wood trays with a polished chrome surround, and a pull out unit for 45° angled cabinets.

For lots more options and product information, have a look at the full range on the main Kitchen Kitten site.

We’re sure you’ll find an innovative and stylish alternative to your inaccessible corner kitchen cupboard, that will maximize your storage space and really improve access to all your kitchen utensils and groceries.

We have a great offer for you on our entire range of wire baskets and drawers – they’re 10% off until the 30th April (subject to availablity).

Wire baskets and drawers make excellent easy-access storage solutions and we have a wide range of top-value best sellers.

Our soft close pull out wire basket is sleek, robust and very practical, and is suitable for cabinet widths 400mm, 500mm and 600mm’

Pull-out chrome wire baskets

A stylish chrome mesh storage unit makes kitchen storage neat and efficient. They can hold up to 20kg, making them suitable for all sorts of items in your cupboard.

If the cupboard under your sink is a jumbled mess, an undersink wire basket could be the answer! These pull out baskets are suitable for cabinet widths 800mm, 900mm and 1000mm and give you valuable extra space in your cupboard, as well as a perfect way to keep cleaning products tidy and easily accessible.

This is just a small selection from our range, so pop over and see what other kitchen storage options we have in stock, and give your kitchen cupboards a makeover.

Don’t forget, this special offer runs out on the 30th April.

Let’s face it, it’s not always easy being a domestic goddess and finding the time to plan healthy, imaginative and affordable family meals; on the contrary, it’s far too easy to find yourself stuck in an unorganized and uninspired rut when it comes to cooking yet another meal for the family!

If this sounds like you (and me!), Menus4Mums could be the answer. It’s a weekly family meal planner service that includes recipe cards and shopping lists. The shopping lists are organized into supermarket categories and take advantage of supermarket special offers and seasonal produce to help you keep the costs of your meals down. An example weekly plan came to £28 for five family meals.

Menus4Mums are on Facebook and you can also find them on Twitter.

I’m not the world’s best cook (far from it, in fact!) but I do like to experiment with new recipes and, being a vegetarian, I was happy to find a wealth of lovely stuff on the Cook Vegetarian website.

Cook Vegetarian are a team of “friendly, long-standing veggies who are passionate about food”, and who love coming up with new ideas to that prove that meat-free cooking can be creative, adventurous and above all easy! The site is brought to you by Cook Vegetarian magazine.

There are loads of interesting and imaginitive recipes on the site (308 as I type this), and if you register with the site you can upload your own recipes and comment on and rate other users’ creations.

The recipes are indexed alphabetically, but also by cuisine (e.g. Chinese, British, Mexican), dietary requirements (e.g. egg-free, vegan), and by occasion (e.g. Christmas and dinner parties) – making it very easy to locate a new recipe, whatever the occasion.

Why not have a go at cooking their recipes for Mini Easter Cakes or Easter Bunny Biscuits this Easter weekend?

At Kitchen Kitten we have a huge range of high standard kitchen door handles and knobs: from sleek contemporary bar handles to traditional twist T bars; from funky flower designs on antique iron to delicate traditional drop bars in metal and ceramic.

Changing the door handles in your kitchen is a great way to give your kitchen a mini makeover that’s affordable, but is also a big boost to the look and feel of your kitchen design.

Our door handles come in a range of sizes to suit a variety of kitchen cupboards and drawers. Many contemporary kitchens are designed with very wide drawers and our ‘New and Funky’ section has a number of options that are ideal for drawer fronts of this type.

Our range of door handles and knobs has been available to the DIY trade for the years and we have some amazingly good value options with prices starting from as little as 50p.

So, visit our kitchen store and come and get a grip on the kitchen handle options at Kitchen Kitten