Winnie the Pooh and Friends Painted Cabinet

Well as you can see I have been busy doing something.

This is a changing cabinet that a friend of my parents made for our soon to be new arrival. It was a plain MDF cabinet and I decided to have a go at painting. Its the first time I have used acrylic paints in this way and I had to remember back to my school days to when we had to mix primary colours to make other colours as my paint supply is limited. I did have to use some artistic license with some of the colouring... but I have to say I am so chuffed with the final result.

I still have a few bees and butterfly's to paint on the sides and doors and the two or three coats of varnish ... but heres hoping it will be finished by the weekend.

Well I've done it again ..

I forgot to blog... I never was good at keeping diaries even when I was a teenage kid and it was all the rage.

Well just to update you slighty.... we have 6 weeks to go before we finally meet Smeagle... although I believe it might be earlier than that .. I wouldn't be surprised if i turns out to be in 4 weeks time. So long as it doesn't impend on Danni's performances that she has coming up in July I don't mind.

We are almost ready for the new addition... I just have to sort out a matress for the crib and finish painting the cabinet. I not sure if I have mentioned this or not but a friend of my parents made me a changing cabinet which I am now ainting and hoping to draw and paint Winnie the POoh motive on the front and possiblehe sides. It was at my parents but as I am now really quite big and I get breathless and I do have the occasional pains now I felt it would be better to have it home here so that I can get on with it as and when I felt I could..... and ironically I was wide awake at 4 this am so after lying there awke for an hour I figured I might as well get up and give it a lick of paint..... so I am glad its home here now .. its definately more likely to get done now.

I am waffling now !!!

Not much else I can think of to say to be honest .... if I can think of anything I will pop back (if I remember) Bye for now !!!

O dear....

I really am useless at this blogging stuff aren't I .... Didn't realise it was 15th May since I last posted.

Well not much exciting had really happened to be fair.

We start antenatal classes tomorrow night ... I am looking forward to it but I feel it marks the beginning of the end of my PGY :(

As for my scrapping I have been working on a circle journal. I will explain more about that when I have some pictures t show you .. I also have been doing my scrap a day again when I have some pictures I will tell more.

If I get a chance tomorrow I will be back and tell you more ;)

Done too much !!!

I am the type person that when I have something I want to do I usually get stuck in and just like to get the job done.
Since being PG I have had to try and take a step back and its becoming very frustrating having to wait for others to have the time to help me get jobs done in and around the house. So today I had had about enough and I could no longer sit here and wait for Harry to help me with the garden... in all fairness he had planned to help me today but our stupid car went wrong and so that came first (obviously) ...... so I have spent an hour or so in the garden this afternoon moving pots and sweeping up the debris..... I feel really good at how much I actually managed to do but now I am suffering ... my back and legs are really aching.... I am gonna be stiff tomorrow !!!

As well as doing some housework including hoovering right through and washing, I also completed the week 2 challenge on UKS .... I am quite pleased with the results !!



It a LO of my Great Aunt Lil .. someone very close to my heart.

Well must go and sort out my supper..... jacket potato and bread and butter pudding for desert ... yummy !!!

Really loving this !!

It might not seem much to some but I done this LO this morning and I am really loving it ... even if I do say so myself.



The journaling around the edge reads ' I have waited for this moment all my life and finally my dream of becoming a mummy has come true. I am looking forward to meeting you and getting to know you.' And at the bottom (you can't quite see it as it didn't scan it reads ' To feel you moving about inside me is a true miracle'

I Finally Finish it !!

I have been beavering away these last few weeks on a knitted pram blanket ... I am not great knitter .. in fact I'm no expert at all but I thought I would give it a go. Well here is the result ... and I am dead chuffed about it ... it would never win any knitting prizes but for a first attempt I think its not bad ... especially as there was no pattern!!

I also finished my front cover of my Shimelle Scrap the Day challenge !! It took almost three days for the glue on the number to dry out ... the idea was to cover the glitter in the hope that the glitter doesn't rub off over time ... well there is no chance of that but using clear glue has dulled the glittery effect. Definitely must invest in some more clear accent ... probably wouldn't have taken so long to dry and the glittery shimmer would have remained ... never mind all a learning curve.


Pregnancy is going well ... had my 28 weeks bloods today and will be seeing the madwife on Monday. Littl' Blob is very active which is great.

My friend Stevie came over on Monday and took some pictures of me, bump , Harry, Bump and I and the dogs ... I am so looking forward to seeing the results of the shoot.

Save the Day

As part of the UKS cyber crop weekend there was a class called Save the Day ... designed and taught by our lovely Shimelle. I unfortunately missed the deadlines for making and getting it in for the CC but I decided to have a go at the class anyway. The day I have chosen is the 27th of each month. The idea is that every month for the next year, on the same date (27th in my case) you take photographs of your whole day and then on a double LO you explain with journalling and pictures what happened throughout that day. Even if it seems boring at the time over the course of the year you will see changes. There are a few photos that will be the same to see consistency ... like for example the clock first thing as soon as you wake up, a picture from your window, meal time pictures and bedtime clock.



I really enjoyed doing this class and although I don't wish my life away I am looking forward to May 27th to do my next two pages.

Littl' Blob is growing well and is very active which is wonderful. I am now suffering from swollen ankles :( ...... so I have to really pace myself throughout the day and make sure that I put my feet up to avoid too much water retention... just when I was finding my energy too ... O well at least I have my scrapping to keep me sane.

Good and Bad !!

Well it's official I really am rubbish at blogging !!!

Whats been happening??? ... Well I went to see the madwife at the beginning of the week... all is well with littl' blob and s/he is growing at the right pace. Can't believe I will be 26 weeks tomorrow... its certainly going quickly.... only 14 weeks to go ... or 98 days ARRGGHHH !!!!

This weekend has been great and not so great ... ha ha .... Littl' blob has found what I think might be a comfy spot for him/ her but certainly not for me ... little bottom up under my rib cage ... its extremly uncomfortable and after a while it starts to become quite painful and so I haven't had much sleep. But on the nice side I have enjoyed doing some scrapping ... unfortunately not at my crop as I felt too tired to be too far from my bed .... but UK Scrappers had a cyber crop weekend and I spent some time relaxing and enjoying some of the classes that had on ... here is what I managed to produce and earned my team 150 points in the meantime.









The Box and the little book was one of the classes .. I really enjoyed doing it but it took a long while. The box holds four different style of mini book and my intention is to make the other three up and to have a box of first for littl' blob ... so the yellow book you see already made will become his/ her first day of life ... the other three will be First Christmas... First milestones (teeth, walking, words etc) and the fourth will become first birthday next year. Looking forward to completing them .... not that I am wishing my child's life away already ... lol ... I am quite happy to be patient.

24 weeks and very active !!

Well we are now into the 24th week - the golden milestone ... the pregnancy is now classed as a viable pregnancy ... hopefully it won't happen but should blob decide its time to see the world s/he has a higher chance of survival with the help of the medical teams. Lets hope we don't have to find that one out though.

Blob is extremely active nowadays and nights which is fantastic ... I am still loving feeling the kicks and punches ... only thing I am not keen on is the bottom under my rib cage ...ouch that hurts !!!

I have been a busy gal the last few days trying to sort out my scraping area. It unfortunately got to the point where everything had just piled up on my desk and I couldn't see or find anything ... I desperately needed to sort out so that when sitting at my area I could see exactly what I have got .... and OMG I have alot more than what I thought for. I will try and get some piccies up on here when I have finished. O that reminds me I need to call local shop to order me in some 12x12 stacking shelves ... I made room enough for some last night lol .

I am taking a friend to the hospital today to have a dressing changed... thing is I have no clean clothes that fit so have resorted to putting on my dungarees again ... I look HUGE !!!!!!

Being Kicked is Fantastic !!

Hi all ... well I have managed to actually start my pregnancy scrapping ... here are the first few in the book ....



This title was taken from the song ' It Started with a Kiss' .. as our pregnancy was a little more clinical it seemed alot more fitting. Harry had to have a small operation and we were not told to take anything with us on the day ... but as it was he was suppose to have taken slippers and dressing gown. The clinic kindly provided Harry with an extra gown and pink slipper socks ... they did say he didn't have to wear them but in good humour and much to the amusement of the staff he wore them to theatre. All this has been recorded in hidden journaling under the pink section of the LO.


This LO I am not that happy with but it was a subject that I didn't like ... taking hormone drugs ... hence why the black background .. it describes how, when and what drugs I had to take and how they made me feel.



We have chosen not to find out Littl' blobs sex so until Birth Day we will have to wait and see .... by doing both Blue and Pink I thought it would help with recording scan pictures.



This is another day I thought I would never see. My own babies clothes hung up to dry ... I washed all of littl' blobs clothes ready for hospital labour day ;)

I am feeling so much more relaxed and happy now we have had the 20 week scan and Litl' blob has become so much more active (well so that I can now feel as well as see) . Its fantastic being kicked and punched right now ... no doubt as Littl' Blob gets stronger and space in my tummy becomes less I might not enjoy it quite as much lol . But for now I am cherishing every moment I can.

I met up with a couple of friends in Colchester yesterday for lunch ... we met up at 12 ish and we were still sitting nattering at the restaurant table at 10 pm last night ... lol was great to catch up though !! I feel quite shattered today now though lol ... I have been pottering around the house .. done the jobs I need to do but I still have a few I want to get done ..... was hoping that my cup of tea would give me some energy ... but alas no :(

No Sleep... maybe I should have read my own blog !!

I had terrible time trying to sleep last night and spent a best part of the night having ideas ....... think I over did the UKS site for inspiration yesterday .... had I have not been quite so tired I think I might have even got up at 2 am this morning to put my ideas into practice..... my mind was busy, Blob was active but my body just wanted to sleep.

I got about 3 hours sleep in the end..... Harry got up early to go and help a friend and when he told me we were covered in snow outside, although extremely tired I couldn't wait to get up and go with him. I love the snow... I wanted to take my camera and now wish I had as it was so beautiful ... and I have some lovely snow / winter papers which I haven't had a suitable picture to use as yet .... anyway by the time we had done all our running around and visiting parents etc all the snow had virtually gone ... O well we may get some next year for a few hours !!

By 3 pm I had had enough and climbed back into bed .... I think I was there no more than 10 minutes before I had dropped off .....

I have managed to jot down my ideas of layouts onto paper and I am hoping that tomorrow I may actually get a chance to try and put the ideas into practice....... watch this space !!!!

O My Gosh ... Where Do I Start !!!

Well as you can see I have not really been about on here for quite a few months now... the reason will all become very clear soon , but lets just say alot has been going on which I couldn't really talk about publicly at the time and because it was all so consuming it was difficult for me to find anything else to blog!!

Well I can now reveal whats been o so secretive and has kept me quiet all this time ....... I AM PREGNANT !!!! Wooooo Hooooooo !!!

We never thought it could actually happen for us as we had to have IVF treatment ... we started with DH having a small operation last June ... which was successful in locating some sperm and then we had to undertake the long and very emotional journey of injecting hormones daily and then hoping that I would produce enough eggs and then had to wait and hope that they would fertilise etc . Well in July last year I had an Egg Collection done.. they managed to get 23 eggs , 19 of which were good one ... but out of them 19 only 7 fertilised ... still a good number!! .. We had two embryos transfer back in to me on the 12th of July 2007 and then had to wait an agonising two weeks to see if one or both had attached ... but unfortunately it wasnt meant to be ... it was a heart breaking time for both of us, so we took a couple of months out .... we still had 3 frozen embryos for another day so that gave us some hope.

I went back to work and we got life back to 'normal' for a while and then October we had to make a decision as to whether we would try again using our three frozen embies .... well for weeks I agonise over whether I could face it all again .. the drugs and the heart ache if it wasnt to be .... and so near Christmas too :( I had until the day I started my period to decide. Well that day it happened I made my decision to go ahead ... and so it began ... the injections and the unpleasantness that come with those blessed hormones ... and then on 14th November 2007 we had two of the surviving frozen embies put back on board .... another agonising two week wait to find out. About 4 days before test day I had convinced myself (although deep down I felt different) that it hadnt worked... like a coping mechanism for the worst I guess.... well it did and on the 28th November 2007 we were told by our clinic that I was in fact pregnant.

I could not believe what I was hearing ... I was shaking and crying so much that I had to put the phone down on the clinic. It was just such a wonderful wonderful shock and the best 1st Wedding anniversary and Christmas present I could have ever wished for.

Well we are now 21 weeks in almost and all so far is going well.... we had our big 20 week scan and little Blob (as he / she is affectionally known) is absolutely fine and growing just as he / she should.



We decided it would be best not to tell Harry's older children until we had got to the 13 week stage as it was not only over Christmas that we found out and to be honest we were not sure how the news would be taken and we didn't want to ruin their Christmas had it have been taken badly and also we were very much aware that the risk of miscarriage is very high in those first precious weeks and so as not to have the children upset unnecessarily, should that have happened we thought it was best to keep quiet.... hence why I was not able to share our journey and then good news with you sooner.

You may now be wondering why has it taken so long to update ... you are 21 weeks ... well the truth is for the first 13 weeks I was really not very well at all ... I was having to continue with very high hormone drugs to maintain the pregnancy and then once I came off those drugs and was starting to feel 'normal' again I still could not believe I was actually PG, even though I have seen many scans and heard the heart beating. It was only really when we watch littl' blob yawning and drinking and waving its little arms and legs about at the 20 week scan last Tuesday it has really hit home ...... I AM GONNA BE A MUMMY!!!! and the added bonus is its gonna be with a man that I love and adore so much .... Harry is so over the moon about the whole thing and he is being so loving and attentive it is so wonderful to see. He felt a kick for the first time the other night so every night after supper when blob gets active we sit and have a cuddle so he can feel little blob.

Roll on 4th August so I can meet mine and Harry's little Baby!!!