Liam And Freya Meet Their Baby Cousin

We had taken a trip down to Wales on Thursday evening to say hello to our new little bundle but sadly Liam and Freya due their age were unable to go on the ward.  This meant another 2 hour drive to South Wales on Saturday where lots of cuddles were had and oddles of ooohs and ahhhhs were heard.

Cuddles with Aunty Candace

Cuddles with Grandad

Cuddles with Daddy

Super cute cuddles with Mommy

And finally a little photo that would give anybody the impression Thomas was supposed to be a girl:

10!

Today my little boy turns 10, double digits, a whole decade.

How did that happen?

It doesn't seem like yesterday he was so small and helpless.  Lying in an incubator after he came too soon.  

Lying there so helpless and so very ill, so very yellow.

Ever the big proud Brother, protecting and caring for his little Sister:

And here he is now holding his little cousin, ever the proud caring young man he has remained.

Holding his little cousin who looks the spit of him.  That same little nose, same bottom lip and those same big blue eyes.

Happy Birthday Liam xxx

'She' Is Finally Here!

Last Wednesday after 42 hours of labour my Sister In Law was taken down to theatre for an emergency C section after she had only progressed to 3cm. Baby was born weighing 7lb 6oz at 4.47pm. 

The proud parents were are asked 'does he have a name?'. To which my brother replied 'Eva.....HE???????'

After 4 scans where on each occasion they had been told it was a girl, out popped a baby with some very unexpected extras!  Now you need to realise this was a very much longed for little girl and she has a wardrobe full of pink things, a pink nursery and a pink pram!

They did not know the sex at Christmas and i had brought 3 neutral sleepsuits. These are the only non pink, flowery clothes or dresses they own. The nursery is now magnolia and there are a few blue sleep suits in the cupboard but i think there may be a little boy wearing some pink vests for a couple of months, but we promise not to tell.

Ta Da; Car Seat Blanket

I finished the car seat blanket as planned but haven't got round to showing the finished item yet.  So without further ado, here it is:

This blanket didn't really cost anything as it was made with ends from my stash. The greatest sort of project eh?

Its just the right size as we have tried it out on a 5 month baby and it snuggles up lovely.

As I am writing this we are still waiting for a little girl to arrive. The hospital didn't induce my Sister In Law as they were going to so we are waiting for nature to do what it does best.

With the change in weather, Saturday and Sunday were both dry and bright, i have managed to get some photos of my project life progress. Plus i managed to complete another week of Project Life at Bromsgrove crop last Saturday. I also made Deb's card class.

Must get me some of the flower stamps and matching dies that she used.  Plus i love the ribbon too.  Can see a Stampin' Up order coming on.

In other news we had 2 new chickens last week.  Sadly we Lost our light Sussex Mo and really noticed the loss of 1 egg to the extent I found I had to buy some!  As you need to introduce at least 2 birds due to them fighting we purchased these lovely girls; This is them still at the Garden centre, Stevie, a black rock:

and Zeberdee, a layman:

And this is the best picture I could get of all 5 of them together:

TFL x

Project Life Update

I've been a busy little bee the past 3 weekends working on Project Life and trying to get up to date.  It took me nearly a whole day to sort photos, edit and set up my order.  Madness!

I have been super busy and now only have from the 16 April to today and from 26 March to 5 April to complete.  I am not strictly keeping to a double spread per week.  This is the minimum.  Some weeks, like Easter hols are more.  I have got 3 double spreads with extra inserts for those 2 weeks plus the weekend of Sarah's Cards Retreat is a double spread.  I have also added in the missing photos for the previous weeks where there were gaps.  Just need to add 4 photos now for the completed weeks as my order had photos that hadn't printed right.  Still waiting for a reply from photobox about this but nothing has come back after a week and a half which I am not really impressed with.  I thought I would have at least had a reply by now.

Must dash as I have to get to work, sooner you get there, sooner you leave!

Hope to be back in a couple of days time with photos of my progress on Project Life.  But that is all dependant on a certain little girl who we are still eagerly waiting for and is showing no signs of coming.

Tuesday Tallies (24 April 2012)

Well we have had progress! 

Car Seat Blanket

Finished!!!!!!

Pink Pram Ripple

Is now 12 1/2 stripes.

Cotton Wool Squares Pram Blanket

No different.

However, there has now been an update.  Last week the hospital saw my Sister in Law and have booked her next appointment for Monday, 5 days before her due date.  They have also said if there is no sign of things moving naturally they are likely to induce her on Tuesday!!!!!!  This is theory gives me a maximum of 7 days.

Perhaps I should stop blogging and get crocheting.

Wish me luck.....

Tuesday Tallies (17 April 2012) On A Friday

Things went a little pear shaped this week.  I wrote this post on Monday, took my photos then never got wrong to editing and uploading the photos until today.  Due date should now read 2 weeks today not 17 days.  There has been no progress on any of the blankets all week since the photos were taken.  

So this is what I wanted to say on Tuesday:

Although Carole has not posted a link for a few months I am finding that without this weekly post about my crochet progress I am not completing as much as I would like to.  I have a very fast approaching deadline to complete 3 baby blankets that I have started.  You see baby Hyde is due in 17 days time! (insert 2 weeks today now)

I have finished the large cot blanket but I have the car seat blanket and the 2 pram blankets to finish.  This is how they look today:

Car Seat Blanket.


2 more cream/coloured stripes to add and then the boarder. This is my project to complete today, no matter what happens I WILL finish this today.

Cotton Wool Squares Pram Blanket.  

This is a light weight summer blanket and as you can see there is plenty more to do.  Another 36 squares to make, sew ends in, stitch together and boarder.  Leaving this one till last now.

Pink Pram Ripple

And finally one that I started 2 weeks ago.  My Sister In Law didn't want to know the sex of the baby to start with which is why the blankets are neutral.  However, she changed her mind at 30 weeks.  Couldn't resist not making a pink one once we knew.  Ten rows completed with another 22 to do.  Probably going to leave this without a boarder as this is made with the left over yarn from my Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK ripple.  I can get 1 stripe in my blanket and 2 in this out of a ball.  If I put a boarder on I am having to go and buy more wool and will end up with more expense and left over wool I won't know what to do with.  Having said that Freya has taken a liking to this and has commented how it would be nice if her new cousin and her had matching blankets!

Hope you all enjoy your weekend, even if it is going to be a very wet one in the UK (and the rain is forecast to continue for quite a while).

One A Day Tuesday Tallies (17 January 2012)

Its Finished!!!!  

My first Ta Da of the year!

The first of many!

This year is the year of COMPLETION

and I will complete lots.

Here it is:

My finished cot ripple blanket.  Made using Rico Baby DK wool in cream, purple, turquoise, red, petrol, grass green and denim blue.  

I was able to crochet 5 stripes from one ball; 27 stripes in total plus boarder which is equivalent to 10 stripes.  

Just over 7 balls in total at £2.25 a ball.

Just loving this snugly blanket and I can't wait for Baby Hyde to arrive to wrap it up and hug it tight.

Now my one a day blanket is finished, its time to move on to a new one!  To accompany the cot blanket baby Hyde needs pram blankets.  This is my progress so far:

I am using Rico Baby DK again; this time in cream, red, petrol and green.  There are 3 rows of dc in the red, petrol and green followed by 4 rows of tr in cream.  

I am then going to do 5 rows of dc (red, petrol, green, petrol, red) before 4 rows of tr in cream.  Final row will be 3 rows of dc in red, petrol and green.

I plan on getting this blanket finished this month as I have some time off work and plan to concentrate on this as I have lots of other crafty makes I am eager to do this year.

Pop on over to Carole to see lots of other one a day tallies.

Secret Crochet Project

I mentioned a few weeks ago I had a new crochet project in mind.   I have made good progress over the last few weeks as well as trying to keep on top of my one a day ripple along blanket.

Well scans etc have happened and I can now reveal the purpose of all these little blankets.  I am going to be an Aunty next year.  

FINALLY!!!  

I honestly thought it would never happen but the honeymoon baby is well and healthy and will be putting in an appearance early May.

The cot blanket looked like this on Sunday evening:

And the new pram blanket I have been working on looks like this:

At half the size of the cot blanket it is crocheting up really quick and I can see progress on a daily basis.