Yeah, my Mixtape zine has finally arrived. I found out about it whilst reading some other blogs - particularly and specifically Meet me at Mikes. I can’t wait to read it - now I just need for the little one to go back to sleep so I can curl up on the sofa and read!! (I’m dreaming on that count!!!)
The first very quick flick through - it looks wonderful - lots of interesting content! Will post more when I’ve had a chance to read it.
While little Miss D was sleeping this afternoon I had a go at finishing Mrs Perkins by Melly and Me - had a slow time turning out the horns, with much complaining along the way. Now I just need to put the finishing touches on - attach the horns, ears and eyes and the mane and tail. When I say it like that - it seems a lot - but isn’t really. Just need a little more time!! Will post a photo when it’s done. I’m hoping to give it as a gift next week - so really better do something about getting it finished!
Well, I had a really lovely weekend - surprisingly so…
Hubby went to Sydney for the weekend - leaving Daina and I and Claude home alone. We would have loved to have gone to Sydney - but the logistics of travelling with an 8 month old along the goats track known as the Pacific Highway - really didn’t thrill us greatly. And plus - we don’t have anywhere to stay in Sydney - despite hubby’s parents living there. (apparently they are resistant to the idea of putting in a bed for us to use and for us to stay! - make it of that what you will…)… So as a result, he went and stayed in Port with the bub and cat! And all in all we had a pretty good weekend.
Daina is crawling all over the place now and I think she is tiring herself out and is needing and wanting more sleeps now than she used to in the past. Which is good in some ways - but not so good when she refuses to go to sleep and gets very grumpy and irritable! But Saturday was lovely. We sang songs, played games and generally had fun.
I was a little worried about the evening though as she hasn’t been sleeping through the nights very well. She’ll wake anywhere from 2 to 8 times during the course of the evening. So by just after 7pm she was in bed. And there she stayed - with a couple of very minor squawks - which may have just been noises she was making in her dreams. (do 8 month old babies dream… I wonder???) And she woke at 5am. It would be better if she woke later - but 5am it was. So up for a bottle and nappy change and back into bed within 30 mins and then up for the day around 6.30…
We had another good day on Sunday. Went to the shops to get some ingredients to make a cake for hubby’s birthday. A delicious chocolate cake! Yum!!! And just to generally get out of the house. Then the rest of the day was spent doing what we usually do - reading, singing, playing etc and trying to squeeze in some naps and baking a cake. How one does it I don’t know sometimes!!! But did it we did.
Hubby got home in the late afternoon - in time to start the usual evening routine - of feeding Daina solids, us having dinner, bathing her and then giving her her bottle so that she is in bed by 7pm. All of that takes us nearly 2 hours. Never a good time to call. Anyway, we took some pics of the cake and presents with Daina and daddy - but I can’t post them here as he doesn’t want his photo on the blog…
And after the joy of the night before I was hoping for another equally good night last night. No such luck. Up every 2 hours. I’m just exhausted today… On top of that I’ve got a migraine. And when I was washing up I broke Daina’s food bowl and the contents of it went everywhere - all over the floor. That then necessitated a mop of the floor - so I ended up mopping the entire downstairs area. Oh joy - and it was only 10am by this time. Most of the morning she’s been a little grizzle guts - very tired - but just not settling when I try and settle her.
So at lunch time she had some baked pear and yoghurt. And I tried her on some spaghetti bolognaise we had last night. She wasn’t too keen on the spag unfortunately. But I’ll try again. She had half of what I had dished out for her - so that’s something I guess. She seems quite reluctant to try meats. I think dinner for Daina will be probably a try of some baked beans and then maybe some banana and possibly osme more yoghurt. She’s gone to sleep now - so I might do the same thing. Ahhh a nana nap!!
Brooke is hosting a week long pet love-in. Some gorgeous pets are posted - check them out!!
Claude is my gorgeous 14 year old black British Shorthair cat. He has travelled all over this big broad land we call Australia with me. He came into my life when I was a penniless student at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music and has since travelled with me to Brisbane twice, Melbourne twice, Sydney once, Port Macquarie once and several trips to visit my Mum near Byron Bay. My motto during my uni days was have cat will travel - and that’s indeed what we did do!
I’ve been getting quite a few people looking for this pattern on my blog. It’s a current work in progress.
I checked the pattern sheet and this pattern was in issue 59 vol9 issue 4 of Homespun Magazine here in Australia.
To try and get old copies of the magazine I would suggest contacting the magazine directly - at Universal Magazine - there are contact details for subscriptions etc and they may be able to help out with older issues.
Good luck in finding the magazine and sorry I can’t be of more help…
Little Miss Daina (who is just on 8 months now!)started crawling on Friday! Yay!! It’s so cute watching her move! And it’s definitely her preferred mode of transport already. And on top of that she’s already trying to stand now. She has been doing a position which is kind of like a yoga downward dog. It’s wonderful and mad all at the same time!
So now that she is crawling a bit of room re-organisation was required. Because we are living downstairs during the day - we have a cot downstairs for her. And we use the dining room table as a change table and up until yesterday bath table. And this table was in front of a set up bookshelves. Now that Daina is crawling, she is going for the books - which is kind of okay - but I can’t get her out without moving the table. And I really don’t want to have to do that 100 times a day. So we moved the bookshelves and now our loungeroom looks like this:
Bookshelves repositioned
And this is what the rest of the loungeroom looks like:
A new loungeroom set up
And a couple of photos of Daina now:
Daina on the move 1
And another one:
Daina on the move 2
Hubby took a video over the weekend - so when we’ve uploaded it to Youtube I’ll add it here!
I also managed to get to do a little bit of craft stuff over the weekend. I’m working on a couple of quilts at the moment - mostly using scraps I have from other projects. At this stage I’m just cutting pieces. Both quilts will be scrappy 4″ square based quilts. I’m just making it up as I go along - so no idea how it will turn out.
Anyway, my little mischief maker is getting into too much mischief for me to be able to sit her and write… I’ll continue anon…
Usually the post is nothing very exciting - bills usually. Nothing to rave about. And no swap packages - coz I’m not in one of those… But today there were 2 little parcels. One from Wee Wonderfuls and the other from Busy Thimbles
The contents of the packages:
A wee parcel in the post
A Wee Wonderfuls parcel
Alphabet squares
So I’m going to have a little bit of sewing to do!! Yay!!
Mind you the pile of sewing I have is growing - it’s just a bit challenging finding the time to actually sit at the machine and sew. I have so many projects on the go and so many more in my head!!
Anyway, little Miss Daina has woken - so better go and tend to her. Was hoping to have a nana nap this afternoon - but no such luck. Maybe later on!!! (wish me luck!) Although, am feeling better as she did manage to sleep through from 7pmish through to 6.20am this morning with only a couple of little squawks which only needed minor attention - as opposed to the 6-8 times I night I was getting up previously! Thank goodness that has improved - I was feeling very sleep deprived and less than human. I’m still feeling pretty tired but definitely better than when I was having to get up 6 or more times a night - the on the hour every hour wakings were pretty horrendous. So thank goodness for a good nights sleep!! More please!
There are some things that I’m a bit behind the eight ball on - and sometimes technology is one of them!
I can do a lot of things - but some of the Web2.0 stuff has me baffled.
Over the last few months, I’ve been marking as favourites a lot of blogs - but was finding it cumbersome and very time consuming keeping up to date with them. Then today I found Bloglines and all my blog problems are solved! I’m so excited about it. So I’ve just spent this morning going through and subscribing to all my blogs using Bloglines. I’m hoping it will be very easy to keep up to date with what’s happening now! I know for some - I’m probably stating the obvious - but I’m very pleased that I’ve found this great little tool!
Daina was being quite playful this afternoon and seemed to be enjoying upstairs in the main bedroom. She can tripod, sit up by herself and also has the art of clapping. Ignore the ‘how’ sounds, that is hubby making his favourite imitation Daina sound. (PS Daina is now nearly 8 months old!)
I spend a little bit of time online - although admittedly nowhere near as much as I used to spend prior to having my baby. I have other things to do now!! And also having a child we don’t have as much money to spend on “frivolous” things as we used to. So the question I have is - how do you keep track of all the things you wish you could buy - but just can’t at the moment?
One item on my current wishlist is this cot quilt featured over at Prints Charming. Here’s a pic of it:
The other purchase I made from the quilting and patchworking shop in Port Macquarie - Retallacks was this gorgeous book. It’s called “Gift” and is by Rosalie Quinlan. I got the last copy of the book from Retallacks - I think they are ordering in more…
I’ve been reading and re-reading it all weekend. There are some absolutely gorgeous projects - I can’t decide which to do first - but I’m sure I’ll be doing quite a few of them - especially the gorgeous dolls and the stitcheries. Will have my daughter’s room decorated with all things beautiful! Beautiful photography, great instructions… Can’t wait to get started.
