Laundry love it or hate it April 27, 2007

Another two weeks have whizzed by, we’re slowly getting into some sort of routine, completely led by E.  Which I’m glad about, she’s feeding whenever she likes, (which can be often!!!), and sleeping well at night (waking a couple of times).  She actually slept in the bedside cot last night (she’s been in our bed upto now), with no fuss or crying, a complete contrast to when L was little.  We were so strict about her having to sleep in the carrycot from day one, we spent most of our nights running up and down the stairs replacing the dummy!!  Hindsight is an amazing thing, ‘why would a newborn that had been held close in the womb for nine months happily sleep in a box all on it’s own’.  It’s nice to just go with the flow and let her do things at her own pace.

I love this shot taken by my 3 1/2 year old.

Anyway back to the post title I have been amazed and aghast at the recent bloggings about clotheslines in the US, it seems that in some places it’s actually against the law to hang your washing out! Check out this  NY times article.  Why are consumerism and wealth seen as the be all and end all in the US, not hanging your washing out because it makes you look poor, come on!!!

It just wouldn’t enter my head to put laundry in a tumble dryer if it wasn’t raining (even then I prefer to hang it in the house).  As a student, and living in flats over the years, I’ve always hung my washing, and would hang it on coat hangers at the window to dry.  There’s even a project in the US, to try and educate people about hanging laundry. 

I don’t enjoy the laundry, but my eldest loves helping out, passing the pegs and the clothes to be hung.  She’s even been spending time drawing clotheslines recently!!  I love these.

The little character at the bottom is Mr Jingles, and apparantly he lives in a ‘teeny tiny house that grows and grows when he climbs inside’.

Here’s my youngest contribution to the laundry, one days worth of nappies!!!. 

Must go the laundry’s piling up as we speak, there’s a load in the washer to hang, and a basket full to be folded (there’s nothing like folding newborn clothes though!!).

A week of chicken pox February 15, 2007

We’ve had just over a week of the chicken pox, L is much better, and hasn’t really been that poorly.  We had one horror day of itching and madness, then my husband came home with some antihistamine  syrup that worked a treat.  So we’ve been filling the days with lots of things to do.  The worst thing has been cooped up in the house, although we did go to a local nature reserve and feed the ducks/swans from the car on Monday.

Glitter, glitter everywhere!!!

My workroom is covered in glitter and stars, she even made a glitter picture for the midwife who came to visit at the weekend!!

Collage fairies made from old catalogues, paper, and fabric scraps (I’ve got a huge bag that I keep saving for something!!! (I hate throwing it away) at last some of it got used this week.

Getting wrapped up and washing the car with daddy helped, a bit of fresh air did her wonders.

Building with the packaging that came with our new bed.

Playing cafe’s, she’s definitely a ‘Yorkshire Girl’, she makes a mean cup of tea.

We had the birth pool delivered this week, and an empty cardboard box doesn’t last long where L is.  Daddy took the day off to give me a break and they spent the whole day making and playing with this cardboard taxi.  She even climbed in it to chill and watch the tele while we made tea!!

Taking pictures of rainbows with her little digital camera, there’s a load of others of the floor and her soft toys, but I love this one, she actually aimed it in the right direction.

I’ve managed to do a few things too, but I’ll post those later.

More paper dolls February 6, 2007

Three posts in one day, think I’m delirious from lack of sleep.  Braxton Hicks all night long are not conducive to sleep.

I’ve found some more lovely japanese dolls, ‘Sailor Moon’ inspired.  Here’s some of my favourites from www.rushita.com

These would make great magnetic dolls

Can’t wait to print these out for my dd.

Printable Paper dolls January 1, 2007

I made some magnetic paper dolls for L a while back one set from here and the wee wonderfuls lovely paper dolls.  But they’ve got very dog eared and she’s been asking for more, so I’ve been on a ’surf search’ and come across these, I love flickr!!

Happy New Year December 31, 2006

Now that chritmas is over, I can post what I’ve been upto in the last month or so. Sleepytoes is usually quiet this time of year, so I had lots of time to make christmas prezzies.

Here’s a few, still need to photograph a couple of things I made for my daughter.

I made this kit for my mum, including the shrinky dink pins, she was really pleased with it. I made a larger version of the origami bag below to put it all in.

Doll, inspired by russian dolls made for a friends daughter (I hope she liked it). I also made the origami bag for it to go in, (I can’t find the tutorial for it at the moment but when I do I’ll add it, it’s so easy)

Made for my friends son, he’s mad on cars and also likes soft toys.  I found the pattern in an Aranzi Aronzo book, and made him little drawstring bag to keep his cars in.

Ribbed hat and scarf knitted for my dad, fits just right too.  Also made a hat for my daughter, pink with a bear embroidered on though!!!

I’ve got a few more things to post, but they’ll have to wait for another day, it’s taken me 3 attempts to get this far, just getting the hang of using flickr to post pics!!!

 See you in 2007