Anna Grace has safely arrived! She was born on Monday morning weighing 3.29kg (7 pounds, 4 oz.) and she is beautifully perfect. The operation went very well and this is my best recovery yet.
The children all love her so she has received a warm welcome into our family. She feeds well and is, so far, a very contented baby.
Thankyou dear God for another beautiful blessing. We are so grateful to have her.
I rarely buy magazines, however, a hospital stay is a worthy excuse for buying not one, but three of your favourite magazines! I’ve had these sitting and waiting, so very tempting to peep, but no! I loooove craft and lifestyle magazines, every visit to the library sees me with at least a handful, but naturally, competition for new editions is fierce.
Check out the cover of this months Homespun, wouldn’t you be tempted to peep?!
Grass Roots – essential reading for suburbanites craving the country life!
I couldn’t go past Handmade, especially when I spied the “triple pack”. Who says clever marketing doesn’t work?
Are you the sort of person who walks into a house and wants to look at everything? I find it fascinating visiting homes I haven’t been to, maybe I’m just a nosy old stickybeak, but when someone visits me I love it if they want to look around. So, today I’m sharing with you some of the pictures that hang on the walls of our home.
The picture above was an op shop find that is in my bedroom, I practiced ballet from the time I was very young until my teenage years, when I found the discipline of point shoes too hard on my feet.
Our ten year wedding anniversary is in September this year. My, how life has changed since that lovely day, and how our marriage has grown!
This picture was given to me by my mother in law, it has been with her for a long time and is very beautiful.
A visitor to our home was admiring some of my craft work recently and asked whether I make cards. I have been known to paint cards or, in more pressing circumstances, cut and paste. But for some reason, I’m just not that into papercrafts. Give me a scrap of fabric over a scrap of paper anyday!
So… my Nanna’s 82nd birthday is coming up. What else can you do when waiting for a baby to arrive but put hours into a gift for someone?
A fabric card is not difficult to make, but be prepared for the time it will take!
I do so love hand embroidering though, so relaxing, and even better when the children are in bed and you have a husband handy to chat to.
The photo isn’t good, but those are suffolk puffs (yo – yos) on the front. This is a great way to showcase a special fabric that you may only have a small amount of.
If you would like to have a go at making one but aren’t sure how to start, I’d be happy to put up a tutorial, just ask!
Yesterday was a happy one, I made my first sale through Madeit and my study grant was approved. Busy times ahead!!
Thankyou to Del of Delicious Designz!
She awarded me with this lovely blog award, what a very nice surprise.
Here are the rules of this award :
1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2. Pass the award to 10 other blogs that you have newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.
Here are the blogs I’m passing the award onto:
1. Antique Rose Designs
2. Styling It Retro
3. Little Cotton Rabbits
4. Plain and Joyful Living
5. Our Shabby Cottage
6. GardenMama
7. Kristen Doran Design
8. PinkLizzy Sews
9. And so, I sew
10. Catholic OnlineMothers
2 years old today! Of course it seems like yesterday she was a wee babe in arms, now to be replaced by another wee one. She loves the little apron I made her and is still wearing it now. I actually made it while she was asleep, so no measurements, but it fits perfectly.
She loves her new wee waldorf too. She is pushing her dollies around in the doll pusher she also received – a very happy little girl.
These are the embroidered buttons I mentioned in the last post. I’ve been wanting to start a button collection for ages so these are a start. I used a tiny quilting between and one strand of embroidery floss for these. Its very enjoyable, I must do more!
MON!!
I know where to find you, I’ll send you a message.
This afternoon I’ve been embroidering tiny pieces of fabric to cover buttons with. I seem to have a bit of a thing for miniature things, the challenge of using tiny needles and the cuteness of the end product. Only problem is trying to get a decent photo with my camera, even editing only improves the detail a little. I’ll keep trying with that so you can see the little buttons – I love them!
“If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home….
But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colourless, and of small import to the soul, then, as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean.
To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours and holidays;
to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, books, cakes and boots;
to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene;
I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?
No, a woman’s function is laborious; but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.
I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task;
I will never pity her for its smallness.”
G.K. Chesterton
I got a little parcel of these headbands from Ema Lou at Scarlette Rose Fairy in the mail today, there was one for me too. The colours don’t show too well here but they’re really pretty and vibrant. They smell lovely too! Even my older girl, who usually hates to have anything in her hair is wearing hers happily.
Ema Lou popped in this cute little dyed singlet as a present for the new baby, just lovely! There is something so satisfying about buying handmade goods, particularly from mums at home.
Its the little one’s 2nd birthday on Monday, so I couldn’t let it pass without making one of her favourite things – a doll! This is one of my little 6 inch dolls and I knitted her a little dress and matching headband out of lovely soft baby yarn.
