boring update but scan on thurs!

So this week I have mainly been decorating G's big boys bedroom which is almost done :) I have my 20 week scan on Thurs when i will be 22 weeks and hubby is getting ridiculously excited. He's like a child in a sweet shop!


G has been walking a lot more this week only 6 weeks after he took his first steps. Its so odd watching him pottering around and I think hes finally walking more than crawling now, guess I now have a toddler and not a baby!

Nesting early?

So this week I have been a busy little bee decorating my house. It doesnt really need a lot doing to it but I wanted to brighten it up, so far I have repainted the porch from this:


to this:


I have started the boys new bedroom as the baby will be going into the smaller room so far he has a yellow wall and a green wall


and also today I have wallpapered for the first time ever in the dining end of my kitchen which now looks like this:




So my plans for the next few days consist of upcycling an old bookshelf for the boys room and I want to paint the other wall in his room blue as it is currently a sickening shade of pink

crochet blanket progress

So I have been busy crocheting this week and thought I would take some new pics to show progress;









Yesterday was the rat show and other than the show hall being so warm due to the weather I had a fabulous day. I entered Agnes and Perdita into the pet class and Agnes won 3 rosettes so I was very pleased. My hammock stall also seemed to go down well and I have enough left to use for my girls which is good since the have chewed a lot of their stuff recently. G was a good boy all day, he hardly moaned at all which for a 1 year old is a pretty big achievement, of course he does love to have other children around and my friend and her little girl were also there.

Tonight I am considering decorating our house and making it a little more homely before the baby comes, G will need his big boy bedroom decorating and I have a few other projects in mind but we shall see...

todays achievements :)

So since I made this blog a whole day ago I have been fairly productive craft wise. Before I went to sleep last night I got a few more crochet squares done for my blanket which is coming along nicely, I shall upload a more recent picture soon so you can see my progress but this one is from a few days ago

Today I have spent much of the day sewing rat hammocks. I have a stall selling these hammocks on Saturday at the Midlands Rat Club show. I've been a rat owner for a while now and soon discovered that although they love to lounge around in hammocks they also love to chew them. So out of necessity I began making my own to save a few pennies. I gradually got better at making them and so started selling them as well. This all got put on the back burner during the later stages of my pregnancy with G and this is the first time I've had a stall in a fairly long time so I'm a little nervous.

I guess I should introduce you to my rats:

From L-R: Ivy Angel Perdy and Agnes

Ivy and Perdy

All 4 girls investigating

and an old picture to show exactly why rats need hammocks:

so tomorrow will be another day of sewing but the majority is now done and as for tonight I think a few more crochet squares to relax before I can sleep is a good plan :-D

Hello!

So... I have a blog now, a spur of the moment decision to share some of my inane ramblings with the world. I'm Lisa and I have a son who is 13 months old and am currently nearly 19 weeks pregnant with baby number 2. I'm a babywearing mama and spend a lot of hours on For Sale or Trade boards looking at pretty slings and itching to buy more. I love crafting and have dabbled with a few different things including jewellry making, cross stitch, knitting (very bad at) and more recently crochet and cake making.

Today I have been asked to make my brother in laws wedding cake for the end of July and having now said yes and asked him to email me a few ideas I'm pretty scared that i will mess it up. I only started cake baking and decorating for my sons 1st birthday in April and have since made a further 3 cakes for neice and nephew birthdays. However the prospect of 4 tiers that quite a few people will see is just a bit daunting!

So other than my recent foray into cake baking I love to sew, have learnt to crochet fairly recently and really enjoy it. I'm currently making a babbette blanket with lots of different sized granny squares. I used to do a lot of cross stitching but havent picked it up in a long time now. Also in my work in progress pile is the dolls house I started a while ago now, at this stage it is still only decorated on the outside which is a huge achievement but I really need to get going on the inside. When finished it will be a fancy dress shop with the attic as a sewing room and 2 floors of miniature costume and changing rooms.

I think thats all for now, wonder if I will ever remember to update this again...