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Dragon & St George's Day Hama Bead Patterns

April 24, 2011 by

These are images from various Hama Bead kits available at CraftMerrily. With grateful thanks to DKL (our first and still our favourite supplier) and Hama DK. I got all behind this year and didn’t make any new ones of our own. I do love the Crocodile and Dragon boards though. Must do more for next […]

Filed Under: Hama Beads, Uncategorized Tagged With: dragon designs for hama beads, dragon patterns for hama beads, free hama patterns, hama bead dragons, st georges day hama bead designs

Hama Bead Easter Bunnies

April 22, 2011 by

I can always rely on Maddy to come up with some brilliant Hama Bead patterns for me and she really went for it this time. Maddy, you are a complete star 🙂     We are just going to stick these together and hang them up now 🙂 Other offerings include Josie’s chicks and her […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Hama Beads, Spring Crafts Tagged With: easter crafts for children, easter hama beads, free hama bead designs, hama bead easter bunny, hama beads, midi beads

That's a lot…ment. *whooty whoot whoot*

April 21, 2011 by

Ahem, just to get this out of the way,So, just in case you didn’t know, the last day for The Mads Nominations is tomorrow; I’m in Blogger of the Year, Writer, Inspirational, Craft, Family Life and Small Business and if you have time to vote for any blogs before closing date, I’d appreciate it so […]

Filed Under: Allotment, Garden, Knitting & Sewing, Maddy, Photos, Sport & Dance, Trips Out Tagged With: allotment, austin healey, knitted blanket squares, rugby, the mads, we will rock you, will greenwood

Knitted Hot Water Bottle Love

April 20, 2011 by

I knitted this for a friend. Now it’s arrived, I can blog it 🙂 I was fairly pleased with it, as I made the pattern up myself. I’ll have to have a go at remembering it. The only less good thing was perhaps that I only had Rowan Handknit Cotton in the right colours, so […]

Filed Under: Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: blue hot water bottle cover, easy knitting, knitted hearts, knitted hotwater bottle, knitting, rowan handknit cotton, stitches equal love

Making something grow

April 19, 2011 by

Thanks to my many lovely friends, the garden is still looking beautiful; daffs are hanging on, tulips blooming, one magnolia is still making new blooms and the other is about to burst open. Not bad for an iPhone. It’s worth a thank you. I didn’t want to garden last year, but being sent trees and […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Creative Every Day, Family Life, Freddie, Garden, Josie, Photos, Trying to Conceive Tagged With: garden veg patch, gardening, gardening with children, growing vegetables, growing vegetables with kids, vegetables in pots

This thing called…

April 18, 2011 by

When someone dies, people tell you a lot about the stages of grief. I believe there are 4; it says something, though I’m not sure what, that I can only ever remember 3 of them at a time. Right now though, I know exactly which one I’m fighting with: anger. I’m angry and I’m frightened […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Trying to Conceive Tagged With: clomid, conceiving after loss, conception after age 35, fertility treatment for secondary infertility, getting pregnant after losing a baby, grief, infant loss, infant loss grief, losing a baby, neonatal loss, older mothers, secondary infertility, trying to conceive

Easter Hama Bead Designs

April 18, 2011 by

Maddy made this last year, the day before Freddie was born. It’s kind of a funny thing, now. I love it though. The girls have made various things over the last week, to help me out with some new pages on BeadMerrily, home of all things Hama Bead-y.This is from one of the Mini Bead […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Hama Beads, Spring Crafts Tagged With: easter hama bead designs

Silent Sunday

April 17, 2011 by

Filed Under: Knitting & Sewing, Photos, Uncategorized Tagged With: knitted blanket in rowan wool cotton, knitting pictures, photos of knitted squares, silent sunday

Collections

April 15, 2011 by

In the book I’m reading, The Hare with the Amber Eyes, there is a description of the collection of Netsuke  it is all about falling into the hands of a family where the little ornaments are played with by children each night. They are taken from their mirror backed, glass vitrine (cupboard) and handed about, […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Thinking, Writing Tagged With: childhood, childhood memories, keepsakes, memories, memory, precious items, sentimental attachment, things, throwing away memory boxes

Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead

April 13, 2011 by

Miss you little boy. Night night. Wait for me.

Filed Under: Freddie Tagged With: anniversaries of baby death, baby loss, baby memorials, bereavement, fimo models, freddie, grief, how to commemorate a baby, infant loss, losing a child, neonatal loss

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