Busy, busy, busy

Too busy to post in fact. But here is a quick look at a little drawing that will be appearing on notebooks in my etsy shop soon. When I'm not so busy.

The best room in the house

I thought I would take a few photos of Bea's nursery while it was tidy! Its my favourite room in the house and we had lots of fun decorating it before she was born and have continued to add things ever since. We rent so were restricted in what we could do but I thought I would share a few details here:

Here is her bed where she spends (most of) the night. It has a Cath Kidston spray flowers bumper and I made the matching hearts at the end of the cot.

We bought the little shelf/photo frame at a craft fair last year and her little coat and dressing gown look so sweet hanging there. The candle on the chest is Yankee Candle Baby Powder which is a much loved scent in this house!

Here is the Lloyd Loom we restored last year with matching spray flowers fabric and although you can't tell here, the curtains are white broderie anglaise. I have put the quilt I made on the back of the chair as it can feel a bit chilly at 3am!

And this is the other side of the room with changing table and Gisela Graham growth chart picture frame that we still need to put photos in!

A new citizen of Pikaland

Amy at Pikaland has just launched this brilliant new community for illustrators. What a fantastic idea!

Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee

I spent some time last week creating two matching tiny cheerleader outfits for my nieces 3rd birthday party, which was Grease themed. One was for Bea and the other for her cousin Tilly.

They were not keen on posing for a picture together.

I think they looked pretty darn cute! I guess I can expect a lot more costume making from now on!

Sleepy baby elephant in a new format...

Hello, I have just added a new product to my shop, a notebook featuring my sleepy baby elephant character also available as a soft toy.

I love notebooks. They make me want to write lists.

Get some of those booties!

After making so many of these booties both for gifts and as commissions you can now order a custom made pair yourself from my etsy shop. Each pair will be made to order so you can choose the design.

Sorry, did I forget to say I was going on holiday?

I do apologise. We went off for a little break to Spain with my sister and her family. We stayed in a little place close to Portugal and Seville and although I promise we did see some interesting things, and Seville is very picturesque, when looking through all the photos we took I have found that they are all of Bea. There are no landscape views or culture rich snaps. we appear to have spent the entire week taking pictures of our baby!

Oh well, I'll share a few examples of our holiday baby worship with you and you'll have to try and pick out any exciting scenery in the background, or just imagine the colourful sights and sounds of the old city of Seville. Sorry about that.

Bea sunbathing with Mama

Looking quite excited to be on the beach for the first time

We did try to make her wear these sunglasses to no avail

Its hard work being a baby

Not more booties!!

I'm afraid so. Another boys pair for another new boy. I really think I could knit booties in my sleep now!

Handknitted booties make such a lovely baby gift though, and are small enough to keep as a memento of those tiny toes!

Blooming

I've been waiting for this flower to blossom for about three weeks and it has finally popped open. I must say it looks a lot prettier now than when it was just a big green stalk sticking out of a pot. And it happens to go with our living room colour scheme perfectly.

I shall enjoy its short life!

That blanket again...

I recently had a request to post instructions for the blanket I talked about making for Bea.

I can't take credit for the design as it is a pattern by Alicia Paulson that you can get here, but I changed the yarn for Rowan all seasons cotton and chose a different colour scheme.

Here is the young lady herself chewing on the velvet ribbon!