My easy stripey blanket is coming along just fine

Posted on March 30th, 2010 by emma
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Getting ready for baby..
I fell in love with this colour combo on my recent fabric shop, my plan is simply to line the fleecy with the print.

apartment covered in post-it notes..
Is what I came home to find after my fabric shopping trip with the girls on Saturday. Mr A was missing me and wrote down [...]

Posted on March 28th, 2010 by emma
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Does my bump look big in this!
So I’d just got in the door the other night from the RS bday party when there is Mr A standing there with camera already clicking away like a crazed paparazzi, saying how he felt so bad that we didn’t have any pictures yet of me with my preggars [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2010 by emma
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Mum with flowers we sent her..
Look at that smile.

just like..
Sunshine

Huge thankyou to Laura for capturing these images.
and to value flora..

Posted on March 25th, 2010 by emma
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My girl you will have three blankets
Each one made by your mothers. Far-mor carefully cuts and hand stitches a patchwork blanket. Gran has carefully made soft yarns beautiful as she knits by hand and I pick up knitting needles for the first time in years to take my skills a step further that you may [...]

Posted on March 21st, 2010 by emma
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So I’ve had very little appetite for a loong time and its finally back!- only I can just be bothered making very quick food now! Here’s a peak at Saturdays dinner.. which includes a pre-cooked chicken, pre-made salad, bread left over from breakfast and plastic plates! Yay.. easy and tasty.
To celebrate our ‘its a girl’ [...]

Posted on March 16th, 2010 by emma
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Thinking of..

Eastery treats
- making something from pretty fabrics for nieces & nephews.. While at the summer house I had a great idea for an Easter creation using fabric, but now I can’t remember what it was! Must check my sketch book.

I also have mini bunting in the brain.. I’m dying to make some! For how [...]

Posted on March 16th, 2010 by emma
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It’s been another one of those days.. I’ve been sick and feeling ill all day. My throat even hurts from vomiting. We had Dominos for dinner because there was no way I was going to cook. I did accomplish a couple of basic tasks today, a shower because I stank.. and later I took on [...]

Posted on March 12th, 2010 by emma
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I feel inspired to sew when I’m at the summerhouse.
There are always some small careful changes made there each season by Helmi (that I love to notice) as though she were some kind of magic fairy who likes to move things around.

I made a heart
for our baby
Maybe I will make a blanket to go with [...]

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by emma
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x Mr A’s Birthday Weekend Adventure x
Mr A is officially into an adult age.. don’t worry dear my number is soon to join yours. His smile gets more magnificent to me each year. Love this hunk of a man child.

It was THAT pretty.

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by emma
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