Season craft swap x

This is our super duper lovely season swap from Dawn on the GP forum :) we absolutely love them ,Daisy has run off with the Rudolf and Ben has claimed the Yule Gnome as his :)
Thank you so much they will be treasured x

This is what i made for my season swap it looks rather pitiful next to the photo of Rudolf and Gnome but I'll blame the camera as i couldn't get a decent photo of it :) its homemade white felt with shiny Angelica strands and embroidery with beaded detail and a nice big jingly bell :)

making of christmasy things

With the complete failure of Mummy to make some Christmas cards we set about making some Pixie made cards .

After the pixies painted their faces,necks and arms this was the finished product ! we put a Ben paw print on the front and a Daisy paw print inside the card complete with Rudolf nose and googly eyes they look brilliant and we just made enough for all the Aunts and Uncles and Nana and Grandad so mission accomplished !

Here's some of the things Ben's has been making at his playgroup he goes to in the mornings .

I love the look on the Angels face :)

snowy snow

With great excitment we woke up to find it had been snowing ! so after running round the garden we went to run round the fields .

this photo looks like im modleing for Countrylife Magazine :) with my new Mam babywearing jacket :) cant wait to have a little bundle to snuggle up inside it .

Daisy making snow angels

Snow angel

bump watch

Bump watch is just what it feels like in our house at the moment everyone has been ordered by Grandma to ALWAYS have their mobile phones with them when venturing out the house which has taken some getting used to as my phone usually has a lonely existence hidden under clothes ,books and other general clutter!
Am feeling huge now but am feeling alot happier about my impending labour i had a another hospital appointment last week where i got to talk to a consultant about all things birth and labour and i was pleased that he agreed with me about having a natural birth :) so yay ! Ive packed my hospital bag and am just impatiently waiting any signs that baby pixie is on her way earthside :)

not that im slightly obsessed at the moment or anything :) but have been busy reading these books , a big thank you to GP mum Lou who kindly lent me the HypnoBirthing book its has played a big part in me feeling alot more relaxed about birthing baby pixie i just hope i can finish reading it before baby arrives .

Got the baby name book from a charity shop to see if it had any girls names i liked and 'hip hurray' have found a couple i like but will till she's born before i decide on anything definite so will be keeping them secret :) i nearly popped a seam when i saw the name Anal in there ! i can safely reveal this will NOT be babies name :)

Have been on lots of long walks

and after months and months finally finished my baby blanket :)

a casualty of constant baby blanket making has been my handmade felt Christmas cards :( this is the only one Ive managed to finish so i will admit defeat and maybe have them done for next Christmas :)

Right off to knit and try my best to be patient and remind myself that baby's like wizards 'are never late, they arrive exactly when they mean too :) x

Its beginning to look alot like christmas !

These are some of the Christmasy goings on from the past week :)
Daisy went to the Toddler Christmas party so after a major rummage we found one of her few dresses and cracked out the rainbow tights and she even let me tie her hair up in pig tails :)


Yesterday we went to see Father Christmas ! who i must admit was on the rather thin and slightly naff side ( i like my Santa to at least have a real beard but i think that's just me being a perfectionist and watching miracle on 34th street far too many times !!!) the pixies loved it though .

Daisy took awhile to come round after being rather taken aback at first but eventually crept up to father Christmas with Grandma for protection :)

Then after all the twinkly light and tinsely excitement we went for a play on the playground .

and of course Doodles didn't escape the tinsely fun :)

baby bump

Here's a nice obscure photo of my 34 week bump ,i really must remember to take some more photos of me and bump as i only have one photo of my Ben bump and none of my full term Daisy bump :(

I Still haven't decided on the best course of action to take about monitoring during labour !have yet another midwife appointment on Friday so will see what she says.
would love to be in my own home to labour peacefully but that's no longer possible and my parents house is just to full of people :(
Have started looking into hypnobirthing as Ive also got worries about giving birth without Andy there as comfort and support like he was with my last two births ,he didn't do anything amazing during labour and birth but its nice to have someone there to share it with . My mum has said she will come to hospital with me but doesn't feel she can come and be there during the birth . but ive got used to the idea of doing it alone (apart from the midwifes) i just hope i can keep focused and positive and my big worry is i will spend labour in tears upset that ive no husband to hold my hand and support me or crying afterwards at having no husband to share my baby with .
However despite all my little worries im looking forward to labour and getting to see my baby for the first time :) and crikey i need to think of a name for her !

Ive started practising with my preloved gypsymama wrap in front of the mirror as ive never used a wrap type sling before .and after months of deliberation finally ordered a MaM two way jacket :) which arrived today and is really lovely so i can still baby wear when its cold and icy :) yay .

This is my scarf im knitting, i thought it was about time i knitted myself something lovely, im also knitting like mad to finish tummy pixies baby blanket .

more wood walks

and yes that is a wooden spatula Ben is holding ! its his new favourite toy he found it while having a rummage in Grandmas kitchen draws and now he and it are inseparable . he even coloured it in with red felt pen and then when he took it too bed he feel asleep with his cheek on it and when he woke up he had a red felt tip cheek which you can just about see in the photo :)

water baby at play.

Daisy trying on mummy's Doc Martens .

lego and puddles

The weather has been a bit wet and soggy lately so we have been up to lots of indoor play,this is Ben's castle he made out of Lego .

These are tummy pixies knitted longies that i finally finished after a Daisy pixie pulled a huge chunk off my needle :) it looks from the photo like one ankle is a bit wonkey but its just the photo :) . Cant wait now to see how they look on my little girl ,

Im 33 weeks pregnant now and after a confusing midwife visit am getting a bit worried about labour despite my best efforts not too ,this has not been helped by all the advice Ive had from various consultants and midwifes about my vbac . some seem to think i need constant monitoring and 'watching like a hawk' like one midwife said and others seem to think i don't need any monitoring during labour at all !!?? so I'm trying to do some research so i can make the decision myself but its not been so easy there's lots of conflicting advice on the Internet too !

We had one really sunny day so we rushed out to take advantage of the sun and large puddles .

rainy day rainbow

Daisy dressed up as a ballerina :)

doodles asked to get dressed up as witch ... no honestly she did :)

+*+ Samhain +*+

We had planned on all going on a walk in our favourite woods but Ben was complaining loudly that his ear hurt so Grandma,Grandad and Doodles took Daisy while i stayed home and looked after Ben and made a start carving our pumpkin.

Despite Daisy being in head too toe waterproofs she still came home absolutely soaked :) which is always a sign she's had a good time .

Knitted these ghosts for the pixies to find in the morning ,they were greeted with squeals of delight :) which made it all worth it staying up late too knit them all .

After much cursing under my breath i finally scooped out all the inside and set aside the flesh for making pumpkin pie and i didn't cut any fingers off which was a bonus :)

Playmobil men playing in the pumpkin or 'puntkin' as Ben called it and 'Kunkin' as Daisy called it :)

In the afternoon we played dressing up ,Ben's a pirate /skeleton incase you were wondering .

and Daisy's a fairy.

Then we set about some serious baking first we made pumpkin pie then we made fairy cakes and as usual the pixies were only interested in licking the spoons so i had to take the bowl off them before they ate all the uncooked fairy cake mix.

ever so slightly messy fairy cakes

and this was my big success of the day, Pumpkin pie ! i was a little worried at how it would taste but i was super duper yummy so i only just managed to get a photo of it before it was eaten up .