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Stocking and Show off

2009-08-01T01:54:00.001-07:00

August 1st Stocking!! - August brings new goodies to Poopy Pants. There are fresh new hand dyed colourways in a range of yarns, some custom crochet goodies (courtesy of Croc o' Stitch) up for offer and a lovely selection of Flip 'n' Go's and Roll 'n' Sit Highchairs. Stocking at 12pm GMT. www.poopypants.co.uk

Also, a lovely photographer in the Gold Coast region of Australia did a wonderful shoot on a gorgeous 4 day old little man, with some props I knitted for her. They look wonderful, and the baby is just divine. If you are in the area and are looking for an attentive and talented photographer please contact Caroline at www.mihajaphotography.com and if you're a photographer looking for yarny props, give me a holler (contact @ poopypants.co.uk), they are my own design and a joy to knit.

Alive and Kicking

2009-07-27T00:55:00.000-07:00

Woah how long since the last blog... too long!! Well I am still alive (just) and the baby bean has started kicking!

Its been a whirlwind of madness in this house the last couple of months, sickness and visitors and crazy afternoons.

Huds got chicken pox, which is fine, except I've never had it. So I was sent pronto to hospital to get needled to check my immunity, seems I have a natural immunity which is awesome and means I wont get a wonky baby (well not a chicken pox related one, we cant do anything about the parents being weird). Then Dan got swine flu, OMG its like the worst ever man flu x 1,000,000 he thought he was dying, I thought I was going to kill him. Neither me nor the Hud caught it (go the super awesome immune system).

Dans mum and step dad arrived from Aussie for 3 weeks to sta with us, which was great, they brought me yarn and dyes :D. S (Dans step dad) made me a shelf for my crafty area (which Hudson helped make)
and I'm all organised and in love...

Its lush and gorgeous and makes me feel inspired. I have done lots of dyeing and lots of sewing ready for a store stocking on the 1st August. Lots of yarn types and new colourways. I am planning a music themed stocking next month, its been very fun.

What else, hmmm, well, me and Dan had our 6th (yes 6th) year wedding anniversary on the 13th July, we had our baby scan in the morning...

its a real live baby in there!!! My dates were spot on and I am due January 30th 2010. We then went to London for the day with Hudson and Dans parents, brother and his bros girlfriend. We went to the Natural History Museum

which was awesome, we made a deal not to get gifts or cards this year, as we are broke and cards are a waste of money that end up in the bin, instead we got each othera £5 gift from the gift shop of the museums we visited, and the traditional gift for 6 years is candy, so we got each other a sweetie too. So, from the NHM I got Dan a DinoMagic dinosaur..
Then we went on to the Science Museum and Dan bought me a Robotic Hand...

I think i got the better gift!

All in all its been a fun and interesting few months, and it seems summer finally arrived...

Three Little Words

2009-05-21T04:47:00.000-07:00

BIG

FAT

POSITIVE

Crafty Muddy Funster

2009-05-17T12:39:00.000-07:00

I've been in a sewing mood since I got my new machine (which I am totally in love with by the way). So have been making some nappies, some newborn ones for TBC baby and Hudson.

TBC babes - cotton terry with sewn in soaker of cotton terry and microfibre, with a snap down for umbilical cord.

Hudsons nappy, fleece outer with hidden PUL, full layer of bamboo and 5 layers of bamboo in the soakers. He's in love.

I have also been doing a bit of pattern designing, and have come up with a gorgeous little dress. I am looking for testers for sizing if there is any interest? It has an open back to show off little cloth bums in the coming summer months. I think I might change the shoulders, the ties might get in the way for a newb, so might change it to snaps or buttons.

In other news, I have found out that my wheel can be sorted, so I will be sending it off to be refurbished soon - woot!!!

My diet is going all guns, I have lost 5lb in the last 4 weeks. To celebrate Dan bought me a Wii and Wii Fit. I'm ecstatic. I don't get time to do real exercise, I cant get to a gym without finding a sitter for Hudson, so this is the best alternative. I have done 2 days of it, and am loving it, it makes me feel the burn. I have set up a regime and am aiming to do 30mins a day 6 days a week. As it stands I have a long term goal of about 3 1/2 stone to loose, but obviously if a baby comes along I wont get there as quickly, but I will still hopefully loose a bit even when pregnant as long as I'm sensible.

What A Whole Lotta Love

2009-05-06T14:49:00.000-07:00

Its been package crazy here the last few days. I have received numerous parcels of fabric, and a lovely knit from the MM swap.

I bought a sewing machine last week off ebay, its kitsch, quirky, and in absolutely brand spanking new condition, all for £30 - bargainous. No picture of it as yet though, it's still at mums. I let her keep hold of it to get it all oiled up for me and have a little play, she said its wonderful and will last me the next 50 years!! Lets hope, it's my last machine (and yes I possibly said that 2 machines ago, but I'm a bit addicted). I cant wait to get it going this weekend and sew up a storm!

My sister is suddenly my new best friend... check out what she found for me...

HELL YES!!!! my very own spinning wheel. Yes I know its in bad shape and missing the flyer etc, but, it was a bargain, and I am on the hunt for a flyer/maidens to fit it as I type. Excitement muchly.

I've started buying newbie cloth. Perhaps a bad idea, but another bargain (haha I'm full of them this week) and once I do get UTD I wont need to spend so much on nappies will I. They are SO teeny, look at it next to Hudsons massive nappy (and my face reflecting in the glass haha).

Finally here are some knits I've done over the last couple of weeks, the poncho is for the MM swap, and the soaker is just a play knit I did, its lovely, so small and squishy. Got to love newborn fluff!!

I went away at the weekend, with Dan, Huds and my parents. It was lovely. I spent 5 entire days with Dan which was lovely, although I was hormonal and stroppy the entire time, I did secretly enjoy being with him. I am on a diet, and honestly, it nearly killed me this weekend, everywhere I looked there was cake. But I was good, I didn't cheat once, and I feel very proud of myself for it. I'm determined to loose some weight this summer, and try get into shape for the next baby, I don't want to be a scummy mummy, I don't even want to be a yummy mummy (I despise that phrase), I just want to be a normal weight range almost verging on pretty woman who happens to have a kid... one day, one day.

I also REALLY want to go to the cinema and see Let The Right One In it looks amazing.

Further Down The Spiral

2009-04-28T03:22:00.000-07:00

Could today get much worse? I hope not.

The day started with POAS... BFN even though I'm now day 36 (37??) of my cycle. No idea why its so late if I'm not UTD. Just desperate for AF now so we can get trying again. (haha how many acronyms in that one paragraph!)

Then, I am in the shower just putting the last of the shampoo on my hair, Hudson comes wandering in saying 'yuck, uh oh' and he is covered in dark purple nail varnish - this is the second time in as many weeks he has found my nail varnish and opened it (he turned the bin upside down and climbed up for todays one). Not only has he got it on his brand new shorts (his main shorts for the summer) but also his new tee from his nanna, and more importantly all over our cream bedroom carpet and bedside cabinet. I'm livid and want to cry.

And finally, Fletcher got bitten by another cat last week and has an infected foot, we took him to the vet on Saturday who prescribed him a course of anti-b's (£50 later - noice). So I'm trying to give him his AB's this morning and he keeps filtering it out from the ham and spitting it on the floor. He cracks the pill and its all over my floor and skirt... great! no anti-b's for him today. Mum has since told me I can open the pill and put the powder in the meat without the plastic outer.

Anyhow, its 11.30am what else is in store for me today? AF I hope.

Real Nappy Week

2009-04-26T12:25:00.001-07:00

In celebration of Real Nappy Week 2009 - Poopy Pants has some great offers available including 10% off everything!! Click Here for more details

Live and kicking

2009-04-08T15:10:00.000-07:00

Poopy Pants has gone live!!!

Finally after nearly 3 months its up with product ready to go. It's still quite basic, with lots of products to sell in the coming months, but I did it, practically all on my own too, I even learnt a tiny bit of html for it too.

So, go visit it and buy something :D (post is free!!!)

www.poopypants.co.uk

Deuces Are Wild

2009-04-08T10:04:00.000-07:00

It feels like ages since I posted last. It's not.

The weekend brought sunshine and spring, made everything bright and fabulous. I finished my custom order, and am SO pleased with it, here it is all finished.

The girl I did them for loves them, and they look great on her little girl. She now wants 3 more pairs of the shoes!

On a different note...

Hudson had his surgery yesterday. He was a trooper... It went like this..

We got there and chatted to the consultant about what was happening. Then he let the nurse put the magic cream on his hands and then she put cling film over it, and he was walking around with 'funky gloves' on. then for the cannula he sat on my knee and put his arm behind my back so the anaesthetist did it all behind us, I laid him on the bed and gave him his bear and donkey and she put the stuff in and within 2 seconds his eyes rolled back and he was asleep.

We went back down to wait and we're called back up an hour later. He was sobbing when we got there, but his eyes were still closed, so hadn't woken properly. I was made to sit in a wheelchair cuddling him so they could wheel us back to the ward *insert super embarrassment here*. Then HURRAY for mummy milk, he wouldn't stop crying so I boobed him and he fell back to sleep and woke with a start and screamed again. i gave him the other side and he calmed a bit. I think the cannula was hurting him as he moved his arm and cried again. Dan distracted him by drawing loads of pictures until Huds grabbed at the cannula bandage and tried ripping it off. I said he had to leave it alone and he totally cracked it. The nurse came over and said he could actually have it out if he wanted, so she took it out and he calmed instantly (although he didn't want me holding the cotton wool on it and got a bit of blood spurting) and after 10 mins or so ate a 2 slice jam sandwich, a banana, yoghurt and half a cup of water.

Then he asked to get down and play, the nurse said if he still had the anaesthetic running through him his legs wouldn't work, but he got down and played fine, walking and trying to climb!!! The nurse said he seemed fine and could go home if we wanted to. This was just an hour after getting back from surgery (the other 2 kids on the ward had to wait 4 hours to leave, but they were older - about 8).

Just as we were getting ready to leave the surgeon came to see us and told us how it went - he managed to pull it right down, but its very small, so will hopefully catch up with the other soon enough. I changed his nappy and the stitches were fine. Hudson showed him his new tractor that Dan got him, and then the surgeon asked him if he wanted to jump on the bed, and bounced him on the bed about 10 times, Huds thought it was great, and the surgeon said yep he's definitely fine to go home, as that didn't upset him at all!!!

So yep an all round success. Today he has been fine, climbing over stuff and everything, he slept great last night as well. no pain medication needed or anything. I'm just glad its over and I don't need to stress anymore.

Then to give me a little lift, today a lovely packet arrived from Allison with a melancholy inducing letter and tons of kool-aid!!!! Yey - go Allison!!! I have already got 2 in the pan cooking away, the smell is to die for. The colour seems to go a long way, and I had quite a bit of of it left after dyeing. I did almost contemplate mixing the left over bits together, adding a bit of sugar and downing it, but then I looked at my hands and saw the horrific staining that they had left, so it went down the sink.

These are the selections of colours for the 2 lots currently cooking..

Aprils Playlist

2009-04-04T07:55:00.001-07:00

I've decided to make a play list each month of songs I am listening to. This month was a list we made up on the iPod on the way home from the hospital last night. It was to keep Hudson singing and cheerful on the drive back, they are all songs he loves to dance to and some of them he picks out words and sings along. Enjoy!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Black Tongue
White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore
The Ramones - Blitzkreig Bop (Hudsons favourite song)
Missy Elliot - Get Your Freak On
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Kelis - Milkshake
Kate Nash - Foundations
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
Electric Six - Gay Bar
The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
David Bowie - Starman
Danzig - Twist Of Cain
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Hudsons video version)

Hospital Woes

2009-04-03T00:41:00.000-07:00

Hudson has his pre-op today. I'm dreading it. He has to have blood taken and all sorts. I know it will be fine and things could be a lot worse, but its scary to contemplate what could go wrong. His actual operation is on Tuesday.

On an awesome note, I got a tax rebate £320 worth, thank you very much. Brilliant, it means we can actually sort our lounge out and get our heads in gear a bit.

I also finished the 'spiral yarn' I love it!!! Its wound into a tiny cake now and looks so cute!!

Yarny days

2009-03-30T08:40:00.001-07:00

I am taking part in a dye-a-long competition. It's so exciting - my first comp. The rules are that you have to spiral dye, which is something you do with fibre to get one continual gradient colour with no repeats, or a selection of colours with no repeats. Obviously, you cant do that with yarn, so instead I made 5 mini skeins all connected and dyed each skein a different colour. I was going to do a gradient, but couldn't decide what colour to do. The colours didn't come out exactly as planned, I had no green, so had to mix it myself, which didn't go great - I can never get a strong green, its always a bit yellow (and yes I've tried adding more blue), so that affected the blue as well, as I needed to make the turquoise from scratch. Anyway, I'm still pretty happy with it, and I think perhaps I will do a gradient like this for a hat for Hudson next winter, its a pretty cool method.

The colours I wanted to achieve

Mini skeins (so cute)

Mixed colour

In the pan ready to cook

Finished, just drying

I don't know what to make with it, its 50g so maybe a calorimetry or maybe it'll just go in my store lol.

Blueberry breakfast yumminess

2009-03-30T01:40:00.000-07:00

I made up the yummiest breakfast, which the whole family loves. It is rather healthy too.

Blueberry infused oaty yoghurt.

Ingredients
1 cup jumbo oats
1 handful of jumbo oats
1 punnet blueberries (about 50)
1kilo tub natural yoghurt
fresh pressed apple juice

Put your 1 cup of oats in a bowl and cover in apple juice. soak over night.

take 3/4 of your punnet of blueberries and crush/whizz until smooth. stir into yoghurt. Drain any excess apple juice off oats (keep juice) and pour oats into yoghurt, stir through. Add the remaining blueberries and unsoaked oats and stir through along with a bit of the juice you drained, just to thin it down a bit.

Tada! It is SO tasty, and really really filling! Hudson normally has 2 slices of toast and fruit for brekkie, but today he had one small bowl of this and ate a tiny banana after and was stuffed.

Here it comes

2009-03-28T05:08:00.000-07:00

I feel it seeping through my pores, flowing through my veins. It's back.

My sister told me this morning she thinks she is pregnant. She took 2 tests, both are positive. She is pregnant. I'm happy for her, they were wanting to start trying this year for number 3. But I am so insanely jealous it's not funny. It's taking all my might not to burst into tears. Why her and not me?

Unless you have either wanted a baby and not fallen right away or wanted a baby and not been in the position to get pregnant, I don't think you'd understand that tug right in your gut, that makes you feel physically nauseous all the time and that ebbing of pure vile jealousy when you see someone with a bump or newborn. Whether you have a child or not, doesn't stop it happening.

I don't want to get out of bed in the morning, I just want to sleep and never wake up. The pang of needing to be pregnant is taking over my life. I remember being like this last time, my friend text me to tell me she had given birth and I burst into tears at work and I couldn't work all day, the feeling got worse and worse. I was pleased for her, it was lovely to see her being a mum and I know how much she wanted that baby, but omg, it just tears you apart.

I am piling on the pounds, I cant stop myself. I feel terrible, so I eat. It makes me feel worse, but I don't want to stop. It's like I'm on a quest to make my life more miserable than I already feel. Is that why I'm not pregnant? Because I'm fat? I don't think so, lots of fat people get pregnant. Is it because I'm still breastfeeding? I don't think so, lots of people who are still nursing fall pregnant. There is no reason for it, I just am not getting pregnant. It doesn't help that I have such self loathing that I can't bare to even look at my naked body. I feel nothing attractive about myself. My hair is suffering, and I'm losing loads of it. I'm starting to take a vitamin supplement for that, I've always had loads of hair, but even my mum commented on how thin and dead it looks recently.

I just want to crawl into a hole and never come out - well until I have another baby growing in my body anyway. I lay there at night remembering Hudson in utero, how I'd be laying there and feel his tiny body moving inside, how it made me feel so special to have that tiny person rely totally on me to protect it and help it grow. Maybe that is why I'm still breastfeeding, it still gives me that control, that ability to help him grow and be strong and love me. Is that a bad thing?

I am going to see my sister tonight for a girls night, and I have to sit there all night keeping her secret from everyone else, all the while being a happy go lucky girl, hiding the black hole that is burrowing its way deeper into my soul. Great.

Pretty in Punk

2009-03-27T09:37:00.000-07:00

I've finished the skirty. I'm pretty happy with it. The baby I've made for has chunka thighs so I decided against putting a cuff on the leg holes as it would make it too tight. I might change the drawstring. I dyed the length of yarn after I dyed the main yarn and its come out a slightly darker pink. I'm not sure - opinions?

Anyway, I like the way the colour blocked in the main body and then varigated nicely on the skirt. All in all I'm pleased with it, but SO glad its done. Just the shoes to make tonight and then I can post it all off.

Front

Underneath

Back

LAAAAUUUURRRRAAAAAA MAIL!!!!

2009-03-27T01:59:00.000-07:00

HURRAH!!!!!!!!!! I got my Inner Stitch Yarn Club march slot today. It's gorgeous! I got the boy colourway, and it's just stunning. I got 200g of the colour and then a 50g contrast. I think I may knit a vest for Hudson out of it.

Look how beautifully it was packaged...

Out the packaging

The little free gift

Then I got some bad mail..

It's Hudsons appointment for his surgery. It's on April 7th, at 7.30am. I'm REALLY cross. I specifically asked not to go that hospital, it's an hours drive away, and the surgeon works at the hospital 20mins away. I guess there is not much I can do about it, but it means I need to get Hudson up so ultra early and he's not allowed anything to eat or drink once he wakes and will have to sit in the car for an hour before all the pre-surgery and stuff. I'm not even worried about the surgery, its a 10minute op, which has a maximum blood loss of 5ml so that is fine. I need to ring the hospital to ask about breastfeeding. The letter says for babies under 1 can have formula until midnight and breastfed babies can have bm until 5am. They just said Hudson cant have any food after midnight and only water until 6am, I guess they wouldn't expect a 2yo to still be breastfeeding.

On another note, I am ALMOST finished the skirty. literally on my last row and then just need to do the leg cuffs. phew, it's taken me forever!!! Well, 3 weeks for a dress and skirt, but it's much longer than things normally take me, I think because I'm on a schedule I cant knit fast enough ha.

sneak peak..

Alligator Anarchy

2009-03-25T04:00:00.000-07:00

I dyed last night. I tried a new method, and I am SO pleased with the results. It is quite different, and a joy to do. I started with a green base and added a selection of blood orange, blue and purple in an unusual method. I left it to cook for 30 or so minutes and then poured a load of vinegar in to make sure it was fully exhausted. The end result is flashes of bright vivid colour amongst a sea of green. The blood orange split slightly so there are some soft yellow hues to it too. As soon as Dan saw it he said it reminded him of an alligator, so its called 'Alligator Anarchy' (the anarchist bit being the punky blues and purples). It is certainly my favourite dye job so far, although I am uncertain how it will knit up. It will be going in my store shortly, and once my koolaid comes I will try this a few different ways.

Base Colour

Cookin' away

Just cooling

Alligator Anarchy

Doh Boy

2009-03-25T03:57:00.000-07:00

Hudsons little play.doh escapade yesterday, he had a lovely morning. We made faces - I did the head and eyes, he did the rest - I love the ears haha. The resulting product from his morning play however was a giant lump of brownish/purple doh all destined for the bin. Better dig out my recipe and make him some more!

Hummer V Ferrari

2009-03-24T14:29:00.000-07:00

There has been a family debate all evening of what Hudson is getting for his birthday in a couple of weeks, it was a choice of a ride on Hummer or Ferrari the decision has been made and he is getting a......

with a 'Hudson' number plate. He is going to love it. I still don't know when he will use it, but Dan seems impressed.

Dye baby dye

2009-03-24T04:08:00.000-07:00

Weeee!!! I'm taking part in my first dye along this month. pretty exciting stuff, doubt I'll win though lol. I have a hankering for a good dye session, but I'm trying to preserve my last few hundred grams of yarn. I think i might have a quick go this afternoon at something though, maybe kettle dyeing, I haven't done that in a loooong time.

I just need to clean the kitchen, it seems a crockery explosion has taken place before my very eyes!

Hudson is playing play.doh and just keeps asking me to do faces and cars. my hands are play.doh encrusted - as are his.

It's lovely and sunny today, but so very cold. I haven't even bothered to put the washing on the line, first off I'll die of freezation putting it out, and I don't think it'll dry when its so cold. Too much effort - just bung it in the dryer.

The postie STILL hasn't been. I'm totally hanging for my Inner Stitch yarn club to come through. Everyone seems to have theirs except me. I know its because I'm halfway around the world, but I am impatient dammit! I unfortunately know what its going to look like... silly ol' me looked on Rav and saw the spoilers. Its gorgeous!! I got the boy colourway, 200g of colour and 50g semi solid. I have literally NO idea what to with it. I'm over knitting longies. I wanted to do a spring sweater for Hudson, but I don't think 250g will be enough. I might just do a tank top that he can wear with a tee for spring.

Grey...

2009-03-23T12:32:00.000-07:00

Today I found not one, but lots of grey hairs. Sadness.

Easy like a sunday morning

2009-03-22T10:39:00.000-07:00

A lovely weekend had by all. I went to see my brother and the new baby, she is tiny. I don't remember Hudson being so small even though he was almost 1lb smaller. I didn't take any pictures, I forgot. Dan took Hudson to his brothers and went to the park, while I chillaxed cuddling a teeny baby - good deal.

I got a lot of knitting done, I am almost finished the skirty, it's taking forever, I just hope it fits and she likes it, it was my first consignment, and has taken almost a month. I will take pictures when it's all done.

I bought some dresses, they were soooo cheap and I will get hella use out of them in the summer. they are high neck, so no boobage, and just on the knee - perfect. I can't wait for it to warm up so I can wear them.

Mum bought us a rug for the lounge, which came yesterday as well...

It's already fitting in, covered in toys and Hudsons trainers he kicked off.

Was a weird night last night, I dreamt all night that Hudson was playing in the garden and kept opening the back gate and running away. I felt terrible with a banging headache this morning. He woke at 7.30am - yuk! It seems gone are the days when he slept in til 9am. But on the plus side, he came running into the bedroom shouting 'wake mummy, wake' and gave me a lovely cuddle. He didn't want booby though, and he didn't really want any before his nap this afternoon, perhaps he is finally weaning. I'm not sure how I feel about it, relief in a way, but also sad that he is growing up. I'm so proud of myself for getting to the 2 year mark though. But then again who knows, next week he might be addicted again ha.

Dan is treating me to a chinese takeout this evening.. yum!! Cant wait, I'm starving. We spent the afternoon at my parents, Dan is taking inline skating back up, and dusted off his skates and went to the park - he was back within half an hour with a bruised hand hahahaha serves him right for thinking he's still a teenager!

I let Hudson play on his own for 10 mins on Friday while I was getting ready, and this is what I came downstairs to...
He is an actual nightmare, he empties every toy out his box as soon as we go downstairs - he makes such a mess!!!

And last picture for today - what I see every day when I come downstairs, so cute...

Anything you can do, I can do better.

2009-03-20T12:51:00.000-07:00

ARGHHHHHH!!!!! VENT VENT VENT!!!!

So, my SIL had a baby 2 days ago. I felt really rough when my brother rang, and my sister came over to me (we were both at mums) and asked if i was ok with the fact SIL has just given birth, and that I am being really quiet, cuz yanno I'm struggling to get pregnant... WTF we're not struggling, we just arent yet!

My 2 sisters wanted to go see them today, fair enough, except one sister (the one from above paragraph) has 2 snotty sick kids. I told mum I didn't think she should go, as it's unfair to take contagious children to see a 2 day old baby. The youngest one has just given Hudson another cold just a few days ago (it must be from him, as we haven't seen anyone else). Mum spoke to her and said do you think its a good idea yada yada and she hadn't even thought about it. Mum told her to ring my brother and see what he says. He thinks its fine (but then, what does he know, he doesnt care, its not him thats just given birth 2 days ago) so off she goes.

That's the first thing that made me mad. As I have decided I'm not going to see them tomorrow because Huds is still snotty and he loves babies and will want to hold her, which just isn't fair.

Second thing that has wound me up... Mum is on the phone to again said sister while we are coming back from food shopping (my sister doesnt know I'm in the car, and she's on loudspeaker) and she says how my SIL had such a great labour/birth and that women who have easy conception have easy births, unlike Laura... OMFG!! FUMING!!! I honestly wanted to explode, how dare she say I am struggling with conception or struggled with birth, just because I didnt have a 3 hour labour. Then she went on to say that her DH said that only nice people have easy labours and bitches have it hard, mum looked at me and said, well what about Laura, she isn't a bitch, and she replied that actually I am and I'm spending too much time with my other sister. urm. pot. calling. kettle.

Anyway, the whole fiasco made me want to cry. She knows we are trying for another baby, and she rubs my face in it that we still arent pregnant (whether on purpose or not i dont know). The thing is, I just relayed this entire rant to Dan (my DH for anyone who doesnt know) and he didnt even realise we are really trying for baby 2.

Hmm, reading all that back, it seems pretty petty, but it really riled me today, and I needed to get it out.

On a complete different note, I just watched the new Indiana Jones - wow its terrible. Like really really terrible. Unbelieveable, I wasted an entire evening when I could have been knitting.

Day of the Triffids

2009-03-19T16:55:00.000-07:00

I have finally decided to take the plunge and write my own blog. It will likely be a mismatch of personal, business and crafty times.

Today is a crafty day. I finished a dress for a client, I hope she likes it. I'm making a skirt in the same yarn at the moment, and then shoes. I'm over the yarn, I dislike knitting with black to the nth degree, my eyes hurt from the squinting (although it could be because its almost midnight). I am in love with the bow though, and want to make a hundred of them, just because they are so cute.

I am over setting up my store before I even begin. Endless hours of stress and trying to work out what the hell I'm doing and I'm still nowhere nearer to getting it live. I still haven't got the currency converted from AUD to GBP (a pretty important change I need to make). I think having a baby has made me a technological retard.

Hudson told me he loved me last night. I cried.

I'm in the 2ww. Any likelihood of a baby bean this month is unlikely, but never impossible. My brothers wife gave birth yesterday morning, a little girl called Lois Nelle, I'm really pleased for them, but just that little bit jealous. They caught the same month we started trying, I cant shake the 'I wish it was me' feeling, as high school as it is, I just want to stomp my feet and ask when it will be our turn again. I'm so sure I wont be pregnant, but I've been looking at a blanket pattern on Ravelry, I cant get it out of my mind, and I've been thinking about what yarn I would use to make it, I did a little research and found someone selling off a skein of Lorna's Lace Shepherd in Huron. I had to have it. It will cost me a small fortune to make a blanket out of it, but I needed to try it out. So once I get my orders out the way and the MM swap out the way I shall make a teeny little hat and mittens set (which will coincidentally match the blanket and of course will mean I must have a winter baby, so it will get used). I am shocking, I really am.

Hudson is starting to draw/create faces. He's not even 2 yet. It's probably normal, but I think he's super clever! Here is his face (it's by his hand in magnet words) he made, as he was doing it he said 'one, two... heeeeyes (eyes), nooooose face!' yep, he definitely must be clever (and take after his dad!)