easter

Hello!

I hope everyone enjoyed their easter weekend! Ours was lovely. On Good Friday we went to a little farm with my family and did the easter egg hunt and fed the animals. We saw all the adorable baby animals too! So cute! We then went to stay with David's family for a few nights as David was helping them move house. Lily and  I spent the time with David's sister and had a really nice time, as I don't get to see her very often. 

On easter Sunday it was also David's birthday. We came back home for a yummy dinner of roast lamb and a little easter get together with some of my family. I decorated a cake for David's birthday, I made a penguin out of icing which looked ridiculous but he seemed to appreciate the effort! Lily dressed in a pretty white dress and pink tights so she looked pretty for daddy's birthday. She was also one month old on Sunday! I can't believe how fast that time has gone! We also watched Mary Poppins and had lots of chocolate. It was a lovely weekend of celebrations, family and far too much food!

I've finally updated my shop with some new rings, and soon there will be some new necklaces up too! I'm really enjoying making things again now the pregnancy and birth are over with and I feel much better! http://www.etsy.com/shop/RosiesShop 

I've also decided my pregnancy and baby blog will just be a pregnancy blog, so I wont be updating it anymore. If you want to read about Lily, she will be included here! So I've finished the last few updates for the blog and now it will just be there as a place to look back on my pregnancy and bump pictures as a little record. I've changed the name to 'waiting for Lily'. I hope one day I'll be able to share it with her and she can read all about our time waiting and preparing for her arrival!

http://waitforlily.blogspot.com

And just one last thing... Lily smiled at me for the first time this morning! A very wide, beautiful, gummy grin! My heart melted ♥

How were your easter weekends?

x ♥

this feels like falling in love...

I'm so lucky at the moment. The weather is amazing (that first picture is of the sky. Not a single cloud!), I feel better than I have done in a long time, I have a pretty little strawberry blonde who enjoys being carried around in our new sling all day, which means my hands are free to get in my studio and start making things again! I have been making some little flower rings, necklaces & I've been sewing again. I feel very content and happy!

I don't even mind very much that I have a little baby weight to get rid of and no time to do anything exciting to my hair or clothes! I have been living in ponytails, jeans and boring tops. I'm determined I wont become a frumpy mum though! Once I can fit in my clothes again and have a better routine I will spend a bit more time on myself!

The new bits and bobs I've been making will be going up in the shop this week, and I'm hoping to do an Easter craft ideas post too! 

Has anybody got any exciting plans for Easter?

x ♥

soon...

Hello :) I know I keep saying it over and over again, but I really do want to put more time and effort into this blog and get back to posting regularly!! I will try harder...

I can't believe it's february already!! January went so fast. Mine was filled with shopping trips, housework & organising ready for a certain someone's arrival, dinners with friends, cooking for my family, making jewelry, lots of cuddling Milly, our puppy, taking Milly on her first walk, reading and preparing for birth, being scared, being emotional & being ridiculously excited!!

Little Lily's due date is just 5 weeks away. I feel like I am 5 again and it's christmas eve, everyday! It is so exciting and I can't wait for her to get here. Pregnancy is also now very uncomfortable, my ribs hurt and I really don't think my tummy can stretch anymore!! Lily is so big now, there is no room left. I can't wait until I can give her a cuddle for the first time!

This week I want to have a little pampering evening before I officially have no more time to myself, David and I start our antenatal classes, lots of snuggling on the sofa watching films, and I have lots of dog walking and making things to do :) I am also going to fit in a blog post at some point too!!

How are you all??

x ♥

flowers & glitter

I've had a very busy week, working lots of hours, but work has gone all christmassy this week and I love it! I have to wear our christmas makeup range and glitter all over me,  I have been decorating the shop, we have had our christmas candles burning, giving customers christmas makeovers and listening to christmas music! 


my long hours meant I didnt have much of a halloween though. I worked late at work, came home and fell asleep! My brother gave me some of his sweets from trick or treating though :)


I have been getting in the christmas mood lately and getting ready for christmas craft fairs and stock for my etsy shop. I have been making some pretty new jewelry with resin flowers and some christmas decorations made out of cinnamon salt dough that make the house smell amazing! I will be putting them up in my shop soon, I hope you all love them :)


And our little Lily. I love being able to really bond with my little girl now I know her gender and name. and she is getting ever so strong and giving me lots of kicks. she even kicked her daddy in the face when his head was on my tummy, hehe! We have been buying lots of pretty little clothes for her and gifts, and I have started reading to her too! I read that if you read a certain story to baby's in the womb they recognise them when they are born and it soothes them. We have been reading Charlie and Lola :) She really responds to my voice now, it's so lovely!


How are you all? are you in the christmas mood yet? did you have fun halloweens?


x ♥

birthday treats, charm necklaces and free goodies!!

hello :) I thought I would finally show you a few of the goodies I got for my birthday!! It's only a month late :) I thought I would show you a few of the prettier things I got for my birthday- having just found out I was pregnant, I asked for more practical things and money than pretty and exciting presents! and Im sure none of you would be very interested to see lots of plain maternity vests and t-shirts, and maternity jeans!

I was very lucky and got quite a few cath kidson items :) I LOVE cath kidson! My parents bought me a pretty floral sewing box of hers, with all sorts of cath kidson goodies inside. I got a very cute bouquet pin cushion, pretty tins full of useful bits and bobs like sewing needles and pins, and lots of cotton reels. My auntie bought me a cath kidson mug, the one I have been wanting forever! It has flowers and strawberries and is so so pretty ♥

I was also treated to lots of jewelry this year, which is perfect to make my outfits at the moment more interesting! You can get pretty maternity clothes, but most of the nice things are ridiculously expensive, and I don't want to pay £40 for a top that I can only wear for 9 months! So most of my maternity clothes are fairly plain, but all the lovely bits of jewelry I got make my outfits much prettier :) my family all chipped in to buy me a lovely charm bracelet and a few charms- so far I have a teapot, a cupcake, and a floral charm. It is lovely! I received lots of different friendship bracelets too, which are very cute. My parents bought me  pretty daisy necklace, and David bought me a lovely envelope necklace with an 'I love you' note inside, but I didn't get very good pictures of these and then my camera batteries ran out. Hopefully I can show you soon! And I got some rings which I love, lots of big pretty ones! Charlotte very kindly bought me two, one a big mint green heart, the other is the one in the picture, with the mint green stone. I love them! 

I have some new items in the shop! I have some teacup rings, a teapot necklace, and some pretty vintage charm necklaces which you can see above, which charms such as the eiffel tower, hot air balloons, and tea cups and saucers. 

I also have a special offer on at the moment! If you spend over £10 in the shop, you will receive a FREE friendship bracelet! And if you spend over £15, you will receive an owl ring, the same as the one in the above picture, for FREE!!  click here to go visit the shop :)

I hope your all well :)

x ♥

one hundred

Finally writing post number 100!!! although it isn't what I promised- sorry!! no giveaway yet. I've had such a busy few weeks and I'm not quite ready, but in the next few weeks there should be one. Without sounding cheesy, thank you so much to all of your for reading my blog!! I know I'm an absolutely rubbish blogger, as uni and a job with long hours has made posting difficult, rare and a bit all over the place. So for those of you who have stuck with me, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have finished university!!!  wow, it feels weird writing that. It still hasn't sunk in yet. my work for the degree show was one of my animations of my stick man and dog, projected onto the open lid of an old fashioned school desk. It was all about childhood and memory, and forgetting memories ect, and was in a tiny little space in the exhibition. I wasn't 100% happy with it if I'm honest, but I've had good feedback from other people. And one of my external examiners was Mariele Neudecker, which was amazing!! I had to be interviewed by her for my assessment, and was nervous, especially when the girl before me came out crying!! but she was so lovely, and told me my work was beautiful and even gave me some contacts she thought i should get in touch with for galleries she thought would be interested in my work!! it was amazing!! 

I have been doing lots of celebrating with friends and family, and have been completely spoilt too. My mother bought me some new pretty dresses, one with a starry skirt, and one with cat print all over. My Nan bought me a lovely wooden necklace with a triangle pattern sewed into it, and David bought me some beautiful flowers, wine and fudge!

I also recieved a wonderful package from Lyzi over at being little after winning her giveaway!! I was so excited :) I got so many amazing goodies!! I received a print of her beautiful mizu no kokoro painting, one of her really cute sewn kitties, a recipe for raspberry lemonade, some really pretty cupcake cases, a headscarf, some lovely jewelry by ella masters and a 'knit your own ninja' kit!! I finished the ninja last night, and love it!! My David tried to steal it from me he liked it so much :) If you haven't visited Lyzi's blog before, go do it now!!! She is very talented and her blog is one of my favourites!

we have had some bad news though this month. Archie, our kitten, is missing. He's been missing for a week and a half now, and it is awful without him. we are keeping everything crossed that he will turn up soon, but we do miss him. As does Alfie. It's just not right having Alfie without Archie!! Archie is quite silly, and likes to wander into neighbors houses, and get himself into strange places, so our guess is he's been accidently locked in somewhere. But we are desperate to have him back. I know this is a long shot, but if anyone who reads this is in the Reading area, have you seen a black cat with a blue collar wandering about anywhere?? or know of one thats been found?? we miss him :(

since finishing uni. I have been busy trying to set up my own little business. It's very scary and daunting at the moment!! I have been working really hard too produce lot so things to start selling, such as the sewn animals, little woven bracelets, and miniature jars with little sewn characters inside, which will become pendants! Hopefully my shop will be up and ready soon. Once it is, I will have that giveaway I promised. My parents are also building my studio in the garden this weekend, which is so exciting!! I will be in there next week decorating and can't wait!! I have also filled the time with some day trips out to farms and castles, painting my nails bright colours,   drawing and cooking lots, and watching lots of rubbish TV!!  

Also, now I've finished uni and my job in the student bar, I will blogging LOTS more!! I'm hoping to blog at least once a week now, I've been waiting so long to be able to blog properly! It also means you won't have to read huge long posts like this where I try to squeeze a million things into one post!! I've been trying to comment on some of your lovely blog posts I've read and reply to you all, but blogger won't let me comment??! hopefully that will be fixed soon!

take care

x ♥