Artful Ramblings

babies and all that

Had my 20 week scan today, well technically it was 19wks+6.

All is well.

Did try to see if I could see any appendage that would indicate the sex, not that it matters!

The process of pregnancy and birth never ceases to amaze me.

Really enjoying being a Breastfeeding Support Counsellor at the moment. We had a record 8 mums to the last drop in. There was such a lovely buzz of chatter and babies.

Latest toppers listed on ebay...

I love punching out a whole load of flowers and create paper floral arrangements!
It's so simple and so satisfying.

...more toppers...

As I enjoyed making the heart ones so much, I've been experimenting with different colour combinations. This lovely blue anna Griffin paper looks so beautiful against this peachy orange colour.

Ilove using the contrast of black against bight colours, it seems to help the really stand out. These are fun and girly!

Blue and Brown together just look so sophisticated, these verses are just lovely to give to friends.

All of the above are for sale on ebay here

Friends...

One of my unofficial New Years Resolutions was to try and stay in touch with friends. Not by just a quick text, but sending a nice hand made card to say something special.

I had a spare moment this afternoon and got playing with some lovely new inkpads I got on ebay for a bargain price.

Ingredients: scraps of pretty papers, ribbon, prima flower various stamps

Ingredients: Stamp tapestry and Anna Griffin stamps, Prima flowers, squares cut out with Fiskars Shape Cutter

The wonderful world of blogs and friends and goodthings...

Our sweet friend Nigel popped over to say hi tonight, and told us his family had got into blogging in a serious way. I have just whiled away a good few minutes reading his, Beth's and the kids blogs. Fantastic stuff!

It's inspired me to write more on this one. Particularly about current things that I know I'll forget, like words that Ethan is saying, or latest jokes Luke has made up.

So... here goes, Ethan's current words are...

whaaaat? (said very often)
Dad!
Mum!
dook (luke)
nen (again)
hot
cat ( said with a funny CH sound at the end...very good for Welsh pronounciation)
cow/moo
horCH (horse)
see (usully when we have the camera out, he likes to see the picures we've taken)
watch!
ner - which is usually accompanied by pointing which means "That thing over there"
oc (chocolate)
Hair
Nose
shoes
oc (again! this time it means sock)
no
yess (yes)
fineesh (finished)
o oh (tellytubbies style means broken/spilt etc)
tawl (towel)
bach (bath)
choo choo (train)
jooce (juice)

Those are all I can think of for now.

Luke has a lovely sense of cheeky humour. He likes calling his friends funny names when he says good bye... So at the top of his voice he'll shout bye bye chocolate giant silly, or bye bye power ranger. He also takes great pains to assure me that any "guns" he makes or draws are "only toy guns mummy, they're not real". He's really taken on board my dislike for the objects!

Things I really have to do this week.

Sort out the record of Volunteer hours done for B'feeding support group (I'm writing this here so I'll feel guilty if I haven't done them!)
Make 2 brooches for an order

Some priceless recent pics

Luke pulling one of his funny faces