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October 01, 2010
this moment...
Inspired by SouleMama
In her words...
September 10, 2010
the end of summer...
...so I guess this means it really is the end of summer.
I remember reading somewhere last autumn that conkers deter spiders, I have no idea why, but as Johnny does not like spiders and our new house is rife with them, I thought I'd give it a go.
Don't get me wrong, I love spiders, but if this keeps them away then it's better than having to watch a grown man freak out over such a small creature and then witness the killing of said creature, or as he's been prone to do more recently, pointing the spiders out to Milo who's over excited 'playing' with them means Johnny doesn't have to partake in the killing himself.
September 07, 2010
moving week(s)...
...well it's been over a week now since we moved all of our many pocessions from one house to another and we are still long way off being unpacked and organised!
But here's a little of what's been going on...
:: Milo started nursery and experienced his first real injury. 17 months we've kept him pristine and on his first morning away he manages to fall on to the edge of a toy box!
:: we had a perfect ending to our last day in the old house with the must beautiful double rainbow at sunset (only one rainbow pictured above, but there were two, promise).
:: of course there was the big move day itself, keeping a toddler entertained and away from hazardous boxes was a very difficult task.
:: craft night in took place on wednesday at it's new venue. It was really really great and I'm already very much looking forward to the next one.
:: I managed to fall the entire height of our new staircase on saturday night (no drinking had been taking place I might add). It was incredibly frightening I properly tumbled all the way down, but despite a few bruises and a suspected broken finger, which on discovering I could still knit was decided probably wasn't broken after all, I am completely fine.
:: I have been buying lots of flowers to distract from the masses of boxes and general untidiness of the house. Johnny bought me the sunflowers after the ones I grew failed. There is a florist at the end of our new street, I imagine this may become a problem.
:: having a safe-for-toddlers garden, means I have to spend a lot of time fishing green tomatoes out of Milo's mouth and sweeping up piles of compost which have kindly been removed from pots for me. However watching him stomp around outside collecting stones and sticks and squealing with delight at the huge tree, make the very stressful moving business throughly worth it.
Right that is enough, unpacking distraction, for one morning xx
August 04, 2010
Hapa-Zome Jam Jar Covers...
...after making our delicious jam last week, Bethany, my niece, and I set about making the jars pretty.
Firstly we made some labels in various shapes and sizes and then we decided to add some lid covers, but not just any old fabric lid covers, oh no!
We picked some violas and strawberry leaves from my garden, cut some cicles from an old pillowcase I had, grabbed the hammer and a chopping board and created some beautiful hapa-zome jar lid covers.
A had a go at this once before, you can see my original attempt here, and really enjoyed it but had yet to make anything actually functional with this technique so was glad to have a good use to put these too. Plus it was lots of fun to do with a little helper.
April 16, 2010
An unexpected disappearance...
...I'm sorry for running off like that without a word!
It has been all kinds of busy here including birthdays, holidays and lovely friends. I am still around, just about, but taking things a little slower at the moment, as my little one year old becomes more demanding by the day (in a good way) and I get back in to the routine of being at home!
I will be reopening my shops sometime next week (I'll be sure to let you know when).
I will also be sure to blog about our lovely trip to Cornwall and the little one's first birthday, soon.
I hope you all had lovely easter's and are enjoying the lovely sunshine. xxx
March 01, 2010
Spring!
It certainly feels like spring has really arrived today, it's March 1st, the sun is shining and it is even quite warm out there (I wondered out in just a long sleeve tee and baby strapped to my front this morning!).
Milo and I headed to the shops to get ourselves some shiny new plant pots and seeds, I can't wait to get them sown, hopefully in the next hour or so whilst he naps.
I've begun a new blog on my gardening adventures here, this year I hope to make a success of what otherwise have been fairly unsuccessful gardening shenanigans!
January 06, 2010
January 03, 2010
Crafting 128-138/365...
...a whole lot of knitting...
My holiday crafting was knitting!!! I did at least a little every day over our time away.
Christmas eve was a mad flurry of knitting in order to get Milo's christmas hat finished (the quilt unfortunately didn't make it into his stocking-I ran out of cotton and was locked in the house due to having misplaced my keys!).
And since then I have been working on little knits for a my newest nephew (he'll be my only nephew actually!) who thought about turning up on christmas eve! But fortunately has now decided to stay put for at least a few more weeks I hope.
I'll be back to work type crafting today, but it was lovely to have a few days of nothing but knitting!
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