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Festive Dreamcatchers & Bead & Button Xmas Decorations.

November 28, 2011 by

Today we made a start on the festive crafting list I put together the other week. A friend found me some cheap metal bangles on eBay which I duly purchased and had a quick play with. This was my first go at a crocheted hoop, partly inspired by MollieMakes Magazine and partly from my Christmas […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Crochet Tagged With: christmas craft ideas, christmas dreamcatchers, crocheted christmas decorations, decorations made with buttons, homemade christmas decorations, making beaded christmas decorations

Corolle Dolls Lila Crying Baby Doll Give Away Competition

November 28, 2011 by

This weeks give away, thanks to DKL, is for a Corolle Lila Crying Baby Doll. She’s an adorable 42cm doll who has been hugely popular this year, regularly selling out of all the stock in the country. She retails at £54.95 and does all the typical feature doll things – cooing, crying, giggling and sucking […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Corolle Doll Giveaway, Corolle Dolls, crying baby doll, Lila Doll

The one where I decide vlogging is not my thing

November 25, 2011 by

I like blogging (I know, go figure!) – I love that I get to craft words. I also love to talk (I know, I know) and for all my normal working life I was a sales person who relished selling products I believed in to people I could see. I still do. I’m passionate about […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: balloons and ring game, gogo garden game, gogo toys, john crane toys, maths manipulatives, video review of gogo toys, wooden memory game, wooden sequencing toys

Hello baby

November 24, 2011 by

Trying not to think too hard about the fact that stress can harm an unborn child. Its been a stressful few days. Somehow I’m booked on a section list. That wasn’t quite what I meant to happen and now that I am, I am deeply sure that is not how I want this baby to […]

Filed Under: Photos, Pregnancy After Loss, Uncategorized Tagged With: elective caesarean, planning a birth for a rainbow baby, scan photos, ultrasound baby picture with open eyes, ultrasound pictures

Unrecognisable to myself

November 22, 2011 by

I don’t know how old I was when I saw the film Philadelphia; I saw it at the cinema, with my friend who had a close family friend dying of AIDS at the time, contracted while working in Africa before anyone knew to be wary. We were teenagers. I don’t think I’ve seen the film […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Family Life, Freddie, Grief, Thinking Tagged With: acceptance after baby loss, glow in the woods, grief, infant loss, life after infant loss, loss

Wonderworld Wooden Crane Giveaway

November 21, 2011 by

Wonderworld was the first wooden toys brand that PlayMerrily Toys sold. By the time I really knew the brand, our girls had started to get a little big for the early years wooden toys in the range but they’ve loved a castle and wooden cooking pots from it. Mini World has been one of the […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: wonderworld crane, wonderworld toys, wooden construction toys, wooden toy crane

Christmas crafting coming around again.

November 20, 2011 by

Last year Christmas was such an effort; after the joy of enjoying the run up to it in 2009 so much (heavily pregnant but finally free of the desperate rush to pack parcels and run the business all on my own) last year was a major kick in the teeth. Making Christmas festive while you […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Christmas Crafts Tagged With: beaded Christmas elves, button crafts, christmas craft ideas, Christmas decorations, christmas felt decorations, Christmas felt templates, christmas felting, Christmas ornaments, Christmas Pinterest board, crochet christmas decorations., crocheted christmas crafts, fimo Christmas decorations, fimo christmas garlands, glass bead Christmas decorations, Xmas baking with kids, yarn wreaths

27 Weeks Pregnant

November 19, 2011 by

Time is marching on. Mostly, I’m still relaxed, though the worries about birthing this person are getting on top of me at times. Mostly Marmite moves enough to keep me sane. It’s a new experience though, this need to feel a movement any time I wake in the night and before I get up in […]

Filed Under: Pregnancy After Loss Tagged With: 27 weeks pregnant, pregnancy after loss

Home improvements.

November 18, 2011 by

A while ago I wrote about wanting to improve how the house looks a bit. A lot of this comes down to tidiness and decluttering and all that (I do try, it isn’t terrible!) but it needs some homely touches too. And most of that needs to come from things which can be pretty as […]

Filed Under: Family Life Tagged With: bathroom cupboards, crafty bathroom accessories, decorating, funky bathroom, home decor, just generally aaaaaargh!, need cube cupboards, trying to make a funky family bathroom

The home ed bits.

November 18, 2011 by

Life, aside from being extremely busy, is very peaceful here, back into the rhythm we all find comfortable and comforting. The girls get their stuff done first thing (currently we’re doing lots of maths, verbal and non verbal reasoning, spelling, grammar games and reading practise) and then, with that done by 11am or so, we’re […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Family Life, Gymnastics, Home Education, Music, Sport & Dance Tagged With: draw write now, drawing animals with kids, grade 1 violin, grade 3 cello, gymnastics, Home Education, music for kids

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