Bathrooms

I am in interior design mode and right now Im thinking bathrooms!! I am uninspired by my google search and I got to page 16.....yes 16 before I even found a bathroom I loved and Im not sure that even if I copied this bathroom that it would really work unless of course i lived on a beach and loved to show off my bubbled bathed body to all who sun worshipped below my window...........even more of a no no when you think of Great yarmouth beach........hmmmmm so moving on........

currently I have a blank background,a sea of white and nothing to give it the wow factor,its clinical and practical (easy to clean) and I decided i would love to have a bit of romance injected in to my operating theatre kinda look bathroom and so i started my search????

and then i wonder where do you start?

Shower curtains seem a good place as I am a loather of them,yet they serve a purpose,who wants a flooded floor?? and I find this..................................

a vey ruffled shower curtain

My search has begun yet I cant get one anywhere near the United Kingdom unless i am willing to pay Anthropoligie price tag of £98.00 and so I am on a quest to make this little baby and i will update you with my results very soon

Megan is 14,happy birthday baby

Happy birthday Megan,you need to stop growing up so fast though!!!
Megan is such fun,she makes me laugh so much,we spookily share the same thoughts and laugh at the most strangest things and sometimes during our deep conversations we realise that thoughts and feelings we may not be confident to share among others are mirrored and we can then laugh till our bellys hurt

Megan is such a home bird and I love that but I realise that she will be spreading her wings more and more now she is growing up but at the end of the day I know she will always fly home,she is still my baby in my eyes

Wedding

July 29th 2011

The moment my daughter put on her wedding dress,we are exchanging looks that are glazed with tears of emotion and happiness.I could not have been a prouder mother.
The day was an amazing day and Rebecca had made such special touches that will make the memory last forever

Getting ready for the big day was a very special time,it was calm and relaxed,not what I had expected it to be, almost surreal and another wonderful memory that when I look back on this picture it just brings back that wonderful day like it was yesterday

The final walk down the stairs as a single girl

My beautiful daughter and my new son in law,I really could not wish for a better son in law,he looks after Beckie so well and I know she is in safe hands,they make a very special couple

My Luverly lot!!!!! No more needs to be said here

what a pair of cuties

Wedding cake made by mummy x

More pictures on the way soon.

A Little Lucy update,almost 3 and a half!!

I have not been blogging recently and i know that a lot of people that check in here come along to see how the little lady Lucy is getting on so I thought I would just drop by and give a little lucy update.

All I can say is what an amazing transformation we have seen in Lucy now that she has started nursery two mornings a week,she is a confident,popular,funny chatty little girl and her speech has hit new heights.

She has a one to one support worker called Kim who is an amazing woman and knows the right time to step back and step in when needed,she has given Lucy the freedom to explore and make friends and is happy when Lucy tells her I dont want to play with Kim I want to play with my friends!!

Lucy has her lunch at school and she does so well and there have been no issues,Lucy has adapted so well,she has become independent.

There is so much to say that I just cant fit it all in to one post!!

She is now in a big girl bed and there have been no problems there,the stair gates are down and she manages the stairs,she takes herself off to the toilet and picks out what she is going to wear each day,such cute combinations as well......maybe not too color coordinated!!!

She has made some good little friends as well and they all run over to each other in the morning,its so cute and show each other thier baby dolls,we even have to pick out baby dolls clothes on a nursery morning,like they discuss what their babies are going to be wearing.

I worried that Lucy would not form (normal) friendships but I had no need to worry,she is a very popular little lady in class.

I have the most funny amazing conversations with lucy now,she has decided she wants a horse and she is going to have a pink hat and boots and gloves and her horse is going to be called BIG EYES!!

She has an amazing humor,she really gets irony and she told me today that she hated her cheesy mash at school,Hated!!! thats a strong word that she has never used before

She is bouncy and lively and such a joy to spend time with everyday and while i know we will have issues later down the line Im just focusing on the here and now and loving my confident very very chatty girl

The sign of the times

 Any body who knows me or comes to my home knows I love signs and pictures and letters as decoration,something draws me to them I have maybe 12 different displays of affection on show around my home

but my wish list is ever growing as I recieve the new catolougue for  Not on the high street.com and i am drawing some inspiration

I can feel some crafty moments coming on!!!

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Project cardigan complete and my new favorite place to go

 I have completed Lucys cardigan at last,and I am quite pleased with the results.I dont think I would have quite got so in to this if I had not had such terrible back pain recently as I am still a seamstress girly by nature but i have actually really enjoyed cozying up at night with a good film and my knitting needles,its defiantly a winter hobby.

Lucy actually hated the cardigan and I had to bribe her to wear it for me so I could take some photos.!! Just typical!!

She did wear it though when we went out later that day to have a little brows round the last of the sale bargains.......I just about cleared out Jarrold store of their joules sale items I cant resist I got a dress for Lucy reduced from £32.00 to £ 8.00 now that's a result!!

Anyway here is the finished cardigan

When we were out today I went to visit a new store that has opened called Hobby Craft and I just know i am going to be a regular there it was 2 floors of everything craft and I was like a kid in a candy store,in fact Andrew had to about drag me out of there .

You can try out all the stuff as well in the craft corner so you get to see how things work

I came away with some new wool to knit Daniel a hat..........watch this space I may get it finished before winter is out

A good reason not to do piano practice

When you have spent ages strategically placing you soldiers in prime spots to commence battle then how could they possibly be moved so that army Sergeant Daniel can do some piano practice!!!

A clever tactic on Daniels behalf and as you may tell his new years resolution is not to concentrate on scales and chords.

I knew this piano would give us hours of enjoyment for all the family

I have also made no resolution this year either as mostly mine are to get fit and lose weight and that may last a few days at most.........although this year I really am going to get fit and lose weight!!!!

I have decided that its come to a time when Andrew and I need to make extra special time together,we are always so busy with the children that we sometimes neglect our relationship,I can count on one hand the times we have made a date with each other and gone out with no children and this year that will all change and we have decided that we are going to make that extra effort to get out together rather than one of us staying in to babysit while the other one goes out and I'm looking forward to my first date of 20011 already.



We are already back in to the swing of routine here and Christmas is almost a distant memory although I did find a couple of photos from the end of 2010

Christmas eve

Chrismas morning ( I actually forgot I had taken these as it was some enearthly hour in the morning)

Lots of daddy snuggle time

A belated happy christmas and new year to you all

 During the christmas period I have little time to do what needs to be done let alone any posts,top that off with siatica pain on every movement,dosed up the eyeballs on pain killers and maybe you can understand my lack of cheery christmas posts....bahhh humbug!!!

I worked through it though and had a wonderful christmas time with a big focus on friends as well as family this year and it made christmas extra special to spend some time with great friends.

I was spoilt christmas day by rebecca who cooked a fantastic meal for us all,even though she put the oven on grill for the first 3 hours,the turkey was fine and cooked to perfection,maybe grilling is the way to go!!!

I was amazed at Lucys understanding of the whole christmas thing,she was very in to it all (my party girl) right down to choosing her own outfit and shoes for christmas day,she has style!!

I sadly didnt take pictures this year as I could barely lift myself up let alone a camera so I am afraid this year I will just have my memory of events and those I will cherish! My back is not good right now and so I have not been very creative either although have taken up some knitting,project cardigan!!

One thing that has brought me great joy this holiday season is how well lucy has come on with her speech,its truly amazing and very understandable

Last night she rattled this big sentence off as I was putting her to bed

Me "Time to go bed now Lucy"

Lucy "Ok,Me go in my bed,Gaga (her name for Daniel) go his own bed,he naughty,mummy go bed,daddy go bed,megeg go bed,everybody go to bed.

she then lay in bed chatting to her doll asking dolly if she had missed her and that she needed to put her covers on

It was so sweet and its great now to hear her opinions and her humor is amazing,she is very funny and cheeky and now she can use words to express her personality,im loving this independance its giving her and she loves it too,she is soaking up these words and putting them in to context.

Also just to document another first,this time for my big boy Daniel,he has lost his first baby tooth,and guess what ................the tooth fairy came to our house last night.

frozen back in time

today was a normal kind of day,well if you dont count the root canal filling at the dentist (ouch)!!

I was driving to pick up Daniel from school,happily singing to the radio when Leona lewis blasted out the radio,bleeding love and it froze me to the point of tears and sent a shiver down my spine

Then I realised its almost three years to the day that I had conformation that my beautiful baby girl had prader willi syndrome and this was the song that was playing on the radio the day the consultant told me,he told me over the phone at my request as I could not face the wait for an appointment to confirm that my worst fears were true

Today the song is not played much and at any other time its never really got to me like it did today,the tears fell for my little girl once more and the words seemed even more apt,I keep bleeding love for my daughter and at the time of her diagnosis I thought I was going crazy and although I dont dwell ,today it took me right back to that life changing moment and it made me see how far we have come in the last 3 years and how much love and happiness my special girl has brought me and our family and she has taught me so much,far more than she could ever know.

Monday makeover

 Now that winter has defiantly arrived....first frost last night

weekends have taken on a new dimension and we are all feeling homely and have that dark night cozy up time,no nipping off to the seaside for fish and chips.....well maybe now and again!!!

Its home and shut the door,fire on,warm winter fodder on the stove and lots more dark hours to fill and so I stumbled on this

........http://www.newdressaday.com/

I think its amazing how she can turn the most horrendous dress in to something great to wear and although i am not brave enough to do this challenge on a daily basis I thought maybe I could have a makeover Monday each week ( although dont hold me to it) on my blog and see what I can up cycle over each week

here is my first up cycle object.............pretty horrendous huh!! And it was £4.00 from a local charity shop,seriously though this came with a skirt to match (another monday makeover project)

Its 5 sizes too big for me but I was drawn by the buttons and the winteryness of it

I used a tunic that fits me to establish the size and basic shape I was looking for

I then cut up the sides and shaped the arm holes and after a bit of nifty stichery ended up with

This............

its going to look cool with a pair of wool tights and black boots,looking forward to wearing it!!

Next project mission

 There is a definite chill in the air now and the dark nights are drawing in,yes winter has arrived and my thoughts turn to coats and boots always at this time of year

I pour over the glossys of winter woolens and this year the theme is certainly military and as a non follower of fashion I had not considered but on my drive to school every day I have seen this lady walking along in this

I didn't know where it was from until Megan had asked me to take a look at an item on top shops site,and there it was the military coat that I am now putting on my wish list

It then got me to thinking that I could not find a coat that I really loved for Daniel and Lucy,I'm not talking about every day coats but something a bit eye catching and so I decided to make a coat......as you do!!!

I got the pattern for this coat from http://www.ottobredesign.com/ 

It was a real happy accident in the fact that I ran out of wool for the front bodice and ended up with the spotty lining on the outside too and then a great find for the matching buttons at my local sewing shop just a walk in to town away

And I added a kinda military edge to the front

Now its Daniels turn and in this months Ottobre design magazine

I am just waiting for my delivery  of this months issue and to find some nice soft wool and this will be my next project,Im very excited to get this one made as my little chap will look such a dude in this