Hello there! I’m just nipping in quickly to say that Giles and I now have a beautiful little girl, Poppy, who arrived 7 weeks early on 3rd January. I’m going to be on maternity leave for a little while yet, but will be slowly working on my blog as time allows. See you soon!
Hello, there. It’s been a while. This is really just a quick post from me to say that I’m still alive and have not fallen down a rabbit hole. As regular readers might know, I’m expecting a baby early next year, and lately, it’s been a hectic time of many, many hospital visits and not a lot of time for
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Update: April 2013 Blimey, you’ve been waiting for a long time to find out how to make whatever it is! As some of you have rightly guessed, it is a microwaveable heat pack, and the tutorial is still in the works and I will update you as soon as I can, baby permitting! So, recently I have been interested
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Family history tells that this framed piece of embroidery, a ship sailing the sea, had been made by my grandmother, Myrtle Green, in the 1930s in preparation for her marriage, for her ‘bottom drawer’ or ‘trousseau’. The embroidery, today, is usually housed in a 46cm x 38.3cm wooden frame. It’s a nice centrepiece that currently resides on my parents’
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Knitted for our wedding reception, from Skein Queen‘s Twitter Bird pattern (adapted a little bit). We’re going to play a game of i-spy with some of them! I’ve got an old pillow ready for the stuffing, then I just need to sew them up and give them eyes and wings by embroidering in a contrasting colour. I’ll show you the
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