Just found this lovely photography blog where you can enter your photos’ into themed contests. I thought it give me the push & inspire me to start snapping photos again.
Missed out on this week’s contest so I’ll take as many photo’s as I can over the next few days and hopefully I’ll find one that will match next weeks theme.
I won’t enter to win any contests but it will be a lot of fun at any rate!
I’m in a flap! I couldn’t find anything this weekend for my parents and siblings so am ‘forced’ to make things for them!
For my sister I’m making some crochet birdie decorations and will add little twigs for them to be displayed on in her flat.
For Mum… I’m thinking quaint little heart decorations crocheted and sewn and/or maybe a crochet heart cushion.
Dad is a little bit more difficult. He’s looking for things to decorate his new apartment. Perhaps a couple of cushions for him too, but not hearts, more like ripples or straight lines. I don’t think a granny square cushion would really be up his street!
My brother Dan is very difficult to buy for, let alone make anything so I’m keeping it simple and making him a scarf.
Youngest brother Con really wouldn’t appreciate anything homemade so he’s getting cash to spend on computer games!
Jeff’s side of the family has been taken care of, and so has Indi. I can’t wait to see his little face on Christmas Day, his first ‘proper’ Christmas! (Last year he was too young to appreciate or understand it.)
We had a crazy shopping weekend, something we’re not used to at all. It was great fun picking up little gifts for Indi as he slept in his buggy but it was very hard to resist buying things for ourselves! Ok, we did pick up a couple of things but not nearly as much as we would have liked!
This Thursday we’re off up to Hay on Wye, the lovely little town that we eloped to five years ago. With any luck we’ll pick up the last bits and pieces needed for Christmas and then that is it, no more shopping!
I’ll be on the look out for mistletoe and holly too, it’ll be market day so hopefully I’ll get some really nice sprigs.
Next job to do is wrestle the Christmas decorations out of a very cluttered attic!
image from artfulofferings.com
One cold ladybird in our garden
Indi & I went to a toddler group this morning called ‘Music & Mayhem’. It’s only for an hour but he absolutely adores going. There’s lots of singing and running about. Indi’s favourite parts are going under the huge ‘parachute’ and the bubbles at the end.
He was asking for bubbles constantly today, and got so excited when L started up the machine. All the other toddlers were equally as excited but they might as well have been invisible as far as Indi was concerned! Even when one overzealous child decided to shout in his face it didn’t faze him, he was fixated on the bubbles.
Guess what will be in his Christmas stocking this year!
By the time we got home, Indi was fast asleep and putting him to bed was easy.
Normally I’d be picking up my hook and crocheting away right now but our morning out left housework to be done. So if I get off the laptop I might actually get enough of it done to warrant a sit down and a chance to make some hearts…
The blog snow is back! I had completely forgotten about it!
Now it does feel like winter and Christmas is just around the corner.
Can you see the blue sky just beyond that grey cloud? Funny how that little bit of sky can brighten a Monday!
This little table was found in a local charity shop, I painted it and all will be revealed in a couple of weeks…
My wrist is better, so I’m back to crocheting. I find it hard not doing anything creative at least for an hour day. I usually use Indi’s naptime as a chance to get crocheting but with my wrist being out of action we wallpapered part of the bedroom yesterday and I pulled out an unused alcove cupboard. Our bedroom hasn’t been decorated since we moved in and now is the time to get it done! I have so many plans for it and a long list of what needs to be stored/given/thrown away before anymore ripping out of useless cupboards and painting can be done. We wallpapered during Indi’s nap yesterday so his face was a picture when he came into our room to see the change! He seemed to like it anyway.
I’m off to buy paint tomorrow with a strip of wallpaper to match it up. What fun!
Oh no! There I was yesterday, waxing lyrical about crochet and today I went and hurt my wrist – crocheting! Totally overdid it & now I’ll have to rest my wrist for a couple of days, must resist any temptation to pick up my hook and yarn. Thankfully I’ve got a busy weekend ahead!
This is the third entry I’ve written this week, the words just haven’t been coming out right and time has run away from me!
Crochet is still my number-one-favourite-me-time thing to do, Indi sleeps for at least two hours during his midday nap and I’m lucky to be able to spend the whole time with hook & yarn in hand. I finished a beret for my sister’s birthday last week, am nearly half way through the ripple blanket, started a colourful bag, made a couple of large coasters and practised making flowers & stars!
I’ve got this wonderful feeling that this isn’t a phase… usually I go full-pelt into a new hobby and end up overdoing it resulting in needing a break from it!
And I have been travelling around looking for a good place to buy my yarn. I tell you, its not easy! I went to a shop in the next town over called ‘Valerie’s Wool Shop’ a couple of days ago, there was half a shelf of… I don’t even know the name for it! It was string with feathery fabric interweaved into it and glittery stuff, was tempted to suggest they change the name of their shop but I was quite eager to get me & Indi out of there.
Thankfully there is a nice shop not too far away, they have a good selection although its only acrylic yarn but it’s perfect. The shop lady was lovely too, cooed over Indi and told me about her grandson who’s just a few months younger than my little boy.
So thats covered 
TTC wise, well I’ve just started a new cycle so we’ll see how this one goes… & that’s all you’re getting on that subject!
Indi has started saying a few words! He says car (car-ar), ball (bor-or), bubble (buh-uh), book & bron (bron is our word for milkies).
He does seem to have a preference for words starting with ‘b’ strangely, I was quite taken aback when he started saying car instead of brmmbrmm just a couple of days ago!
Indi likes to ‘help’ me feed the cats now, we have their dry food in a large tub & use a couple of scoops. Then when we’re done filling bowls he’ll open the door to let them in and laughs as they all rush past him!
Well that’s all for now, it’s a bit late and I’m getting tired… is it too late to crochet?… Yes! Go to sleep woman!
My latest find from a second-hand shop. It's handmade & cost just £2! I call it my Giraffe Jug!!
Into a world of colour and fun and passion for pretty things! And oh how I am revelling in it!
I’ve always loved that ‘vintage’ look, the cute classic 1950’s style and the retro chic fabulous-ness that appeals to so many women the world over. And I always thought that it was out of my reach, until now.
Take a look at the crafty blogs over in my links, it keeps getting added to and these women are giving me so much inspiration I am overwhelmed! My mind is full of ideas that I’m so eager to start.
It’s just so darn exciting!
So excuse the many posts that feature little ornaments and useless things, lots of crochet etc.
And if you’re wondering – I’m still ‘kneading another bun’! And my little Indi is still the most important being in my life of course!
(I’m loving the proper lip-smacking kisses he’s just learned to give me, oh my heart!)
(p.s – can you tell I’m feeling better?!)
Well I may have a nasty bug that is keeping us inside but I’m not going to let that stop me bringing colour into our home & lives…
Beat the Winter Blues Ripple Blanket.
The last colour in the sequence just being hooked on my new project. It’s rather wide & I’m hoping it will be quite long too. The pink is a lot brighter than in the photo, and the blue is… blue-er.
I’m also crochetting a red beret for my sister’s birthday and am addicted to making crochet birdies!
Cuppa Hyacinth
Just bought pink hyacinths, re-potted in mugs that were going to new homes (or the bin). I can’t wait until they start flowering! I smashed up another broken mug and put it at the bottom of the mugs to act as drainage.
This was inspired by Lucy from Attic24
It’s been one illness after the other in this household, and we’ve all been down with it. Jeff & Indi are just at the tail end of a bad cold/flu and I’m a couple of days in.
It’s driving us up the walls not being healthy enough to go out and about, especially as I’ve got a nice new-to-me car a couple of days ago that I need to learn to drive (it’s A LOT bigger than my previous one!).
So there’s been lots of crochet practice, comfort foods and pingu this past week. Hopefully we’ll all be healthy by next weekend when we can go out for a lovely early winter walk
