Baby

Pregnant

Well so much for slimming down!! I am going to get fatter :p I will have to start proper dieting after my Blob is born! We were in shock for about a month, it just feels so surreal but I have taken 4 pregnancy tests and they can't all be lying lol. Got my midwife app on Thursday so she will tell me what to do next. It looks like I will have a consultant too because I don't have a spleen. It is still early days though, only about 6 weeks (according to the NHS), however my body is behaving really well on the whole. Just a bit of irrational anger and backache. 

Other than that I haven't really done much! Been on a few nice dog walks but not really gone too far as I have had to stop my painkillers. I am also really itchy as I have had to stop the anti-histames for my hives :(

Still here

I am still here :) just been very busy the last couple of months!!

My business is up and running and I have one client, he is adorable. He keeps me very active though as he has Beagle in him. Tess wasn't sure at first but after about 6 weeks she has decided that she really likes him.

 

 

I have been working on my patchwork skills and almost managed to finish some placemats and coasters for Xmas (but I stopped after I started setting myself strict deadlines as it was taking all the fun out of it and that, after all, is the whole reason for doing it.

 

 

 

Other than that I have been to the races for the first time (though I was a bit upset as a horse was put down after falling) and have finished out first set of ballroom dancing. We have had it confirmed that we will need full blown IVF if we want children (which was upsetting and now this month my period is late!!... so who knows!). Bramble bunny was put down just before Xmas as she had a lung tumour, that was horribly hard but the kindest thing to do for her. Pepsi bunny is still going strong and has just had a full MOT at the vets.

 

 

2015 is hopefully going to be a good year. I am on a diet now as I have to loose 3 1/2 stone to be able to have a baby. So we are doing some form of exercise every day. I have booked us on for ballroom dancing again and in February I am starting belly dancing classes :D I am also learning the piano this year and have borrowed a keyboard from my mother-in-law. I think that brings me back up to date with my own life!!



Still busy!!

Not felt I have had time to blog much (too much playing of Hay Day) over the past month or so. I have been setting up my business, even had a client asking about my services, so fingers crossed. 

Had another bump in the car, failure on the part of the other guy to stop when I did an emergency break... but I was simply happy that I hadn't broken anything. I have been given a lexus as a curtesy car which is worth about £48,000 so I am terrified to park it anywhere in case it gets damaged. It feels amazing to drive though :D

I have also been working on a new crafting project, it is a table runner for in the new extension. Probably need to do about double what I have but the shop has run out of the backing stuff I need. 

This is a picture of my hopefully to be pony Bella who is utterly adorable and may be coming to live with me for a few months next year (very excited)

And this is my first attempt at grooming Tess :) I thought I did well... both her ears seem to be level :p

Busy busy busy

I don't feel like I am stopping at the moment! Every day seems to be packed with stuff. I have a weeks free bus pass so the dog and I have been out and about. This afternoon I am off to visit the Bar Covent in York and tomorrow the mother-in-law is over. 

Windsor was really good and I felt like I had a really good break from reality and a chance to actually relax. We did Hampton Court Palace and the Harry Potter Studio. 

This is us in the maze of Hampton Court (there really was too much for us to do even though we had given ourselves a full day!)

And this is me and Hogwarts! It was really busy even though it wasn't school holidays any more. It was excellent but I don't think I would go again as I have seen what I wanted to see. I even got to open the doors of the great hall as it was my birthday :D We were the first tour of the day so we got to actually open them... not like all the other tours who would be fake opening them lol. 

I have been taking part in a Christmas tree ornament exchange. I can't believe I got it finished so quickly! The only problem is that I always make cross stitch ornaments for other people and I never end up making one for myself and I always fall in love with the one I have done but have to give it away. 

My other crafts are not going so well. I have gone backwards with my perfectionism since returning from China so I have had to put some of it away as I am not enjoying it, I am just rushing to have it finished so I can put it up on facebook!!

Business wise things are moving along but I am waiting for the local council to get back to me with a date when they can come and do a home inspection for me. 

Stitching show

Today I went to a stitching show in Harrogate with a friend (although a teeny bit of me wanted to go alone so I could spend more time just oogling and looking at individual things on various stalls). We learnt from last year and went towards the end of the day and it was much less busy, the last half an hour there were only a handful of people left and the stall holders actually had time to gossip!

I got aida, buttons, fabric, two patterns (one for a rabbit cushion and one for a needle case) a gorjuss cross stitch kit and this applique kit (though the photo does not do it justice). 

Some of the workmen were here today to finish off so I now have the joinery finished, a radiator and a plumbed in dish washer (thank goodness!!). However the electrician had a nasty shock for me. We have no upstairs lights because a junction box has gone... the problem is that we don't know exactly where it is so next week we are going to have to take up the carpet and flooring to find it *sighs*. Anyway tomorrow the guy is coming to finish off all the outside stuff and then I can get my house back again!

No more blogging for a while for me as I am off to Windsor on Sunday for my 30th :D Hampton Court Palace and the Harry Potter studios!!!