Finally the weather is warmer and I feel so much better for it! I really don't like being cold at all and am the sort of person who wears cardigans in the height of Summer! It's lovely to wear just a couple of layers of clothing at the moment rather than what has seemed like about ten in the last few months! The nice weather makes me feel really excited about places to go and I'm itching for a day at the Seaside!
This weekend I went a walk with Little Tea Cup and Mr Teacup (I'm sure he'll thank me for that title!) to a local park. We went there in Winter which was nice but of course, it looked a hundred times nicer with the sun shining.
I carried Little Tea Cup in my new russian doll printed baby sling and was a bit worried about what she'd make of it as it was her first real outing in it. It turned out to be a success as she was much higher up than in the push chair (obviously!) and could see loads more than usual. She was really intrigued by all of the trees and protested when I tried to turn her to look at other things! I'm going to try and use the sling more often, especially now that it's (fingers crossed!) going to be better weather for a while.
Here's Little Tea Cup admiring the trees across the stream!
This type of carrier is a Sleepy Nico and it's soooo comfy! I have another sling called a Moby which is a stretchy wrap and is also really comfy but I think it's designed for slightly lighter babies than Little Tea Cup. She starts off quite high up and cosy but ends up somewhere around my knees after half an hour of walking! I will have to put it away and maybe it can be used again if we're lucky enough to have any more Little Tea Cups in the future! The Sleepy Nico is much more supportive for her and also a lot quicker to get her in a out of as it's just a case of using the buckles to clip her in.
I really like using slings after being a bit unsure of them to begin with. It's great to be able to use escalators in shops rather than wait for lifts which are often really crowded. It's also lovely for Little Tea Cup to be closer to me and to be able to see more. Hopefully there'll be lots more trips to the park in it this Spring and Summer!
During my maternity leave I had tons of time for making things. Ooodles of time! It was such a lovely way to spend those weeks of waiting for the baby to arrive. I sewed curtains for her nursery. I made little crochet toys and shoes for her. I sewed brooches and made bags for friends and family. I spent many a happy hour on Pinterest looking for ideas. I used to love wandering (or waddling!) around the haberdashery department in John Lewis admiring the pretty wool, buttons and fabric etc. I knew that when the baby arrived I wouldn't have any time for crafty stuff and thought I'd forget all about it for the time being....but now my little girl is here there are even more things I want to make for her and ideas whizzing around in my head! Except now my days are happily spent with Little Tea Cup and finding time to squeeze in time to craft is such a challenge!
Now that Little Tea Cup is in more of a routine and goes to bed roughly at the same time each evening (the little star!) I've decided to take myself in hand and get organised enough with my free(ish) time to do a little bit of making.
Part of the problem with getting going again with crafting is that I always seem to want to start too many projects at once and as a result my little sewing room looks like a bit of a tip and I never know where to start! So I've decided to choose one project at a time that I HAVE to finish before I start another one. I feel lots more focused and am enjoying the time I get to craft much more now.
To keep my current project easy to hand for when I get a moment, I've decided to use a w.i.p. (work in progress) box. I'm going to collect all of the materials I need for a project before I start and store it all in the box and that way I wont get distracted by all of my pretty fabrics and buttons calling for attention!
So here's my latest project stored in my little w.i.p. box!
I'm really loving clouds at the moment so I'm making a cute cloud softie with a little family of rain drops to accompany it. I'm almost done and just need to add faces to the softies. I'll share photos of them when they're finished!
Well as the title might suggest I have decided.....to blog! This is My Very First Post on my shiny new blog. It was designed by the lovely and very talented Jen from Jenny and the Magic Feather and I think she's done a fantastic job and has really captured my ideas for how I wanted it to look (yay for polka dots!).
I've really enjoyed reading lots of crafty type blogs in the last year or so and have always been so inspired by them and thought 'ooh I'd like to have a go at that!'. But for various reasons I've always dithered about actually getting on with it (the biggest being my little baby girl, born in January who I'll call Little Tea Cup on here). Then I stumbled across Jenny's lovely blog and her fab blog designs and.....well here I am!
I've decided to use this space as a way of recording those little snippets of life that make me happy. Special things like my baby girl giggling for the first time or just little things like walks in the park on Spring days. I also plan on using this as a place to share 'stuff I make' (sewing, crochet, glueing and sticking etc!) and am hoping that I'll find more time for 'ta-dah!' moments with such a pretty place to share them!
