9th March 2013

There is no other day like this one, the day I met my beautiful daughter <3 Mia Evelyn Tomkins came into this world at 18:06 weighing 6lb 15 oz, and she looks just like her Daddy <3 best day of our lives xx (and also the greatest Mother's Day gift!!)

My little creations

Well hello there, 

I thought it was about time to blog a little something about the things I've been making. Just before Christmas 2012 I started doing some sewing, I thought it would be quite nice to make some little handcrafted decorations for the Christmas tree. So off I went to the nearest haberdashery and bought some felt, needles and thread and got to work =) since then, I've made Christmas decorations as well as some cushions and other little bits and bobs =) as you are all aware, I've got a little one on the way (my greatest creation yet!) so I've been making some little things for her Nursery - since we don't have money to decorate haha! Anyway, after showing people I've had quite a few people tell me to upload them to the blog and get them out there so today I thought I would =)

I'll start with the Christmas Decorations that I made for my tree: 

I also made a couple of decorations as gifts for people. The following image shows 4 decorations that I made for my parents. The pink gingerbread man was for my mum, and the other three were for my Dad and his partner - each animal is for each pet that they own =)

After this I thought I would try with cushion, I've always wanted one of those beautiful owl cushions that are silly costs lol so first of all i made a small pin cushion using a craft book that I got for Christmas, and then I set to work on a couple of owl cushions:

hehe so cute ^_^ my little one's first cushions hehe. So next I started on the Nursery, the walls are bare white so I wanted to make something that would take up most of the room, be pretty, and also be educating for her lol! So I saw this beautiful wall piece on Pinterest and decided to make my own version. It's a wall alphabet, just using simple cardboard and scrapbook paper. I cut the cardboard into letter pieces that I drew on, and then using a LOT of double sided sticky tape, wrapped the paper round each one and staggered it on the wall: 

I'm quite proud of this one =) it makes the Nursery look so much more cosy and personal for her rather than stark and boring. 
Last week, I made another cushion for her room with three little words that I like to live by =) hopefully she'll grow to live by them too. I also made some little felt elephants and hung them up on the wall of the nursery. 

There's definitely something so much more rewarding in making things yourself rather than buying things. It makes things feel more personal and it has got me through the lonely days of being on maternity leave lol so everyone's a winner! And to be fair, I don't think I've done too badly considering before this I'd never even sewn a button on anything so to handstitch all of this - I'm pretty proud of myself =) 

I've got a little sketchbook and some watercolour paints.....gonna give that a go soon hehe ^_^ I'll keep y'all updated on more of my little creations. 

And coming soon....my greatest creation yet <3

 

Reblogging a past blog because its THAT important =)

A chief once said to his son,

"There are two wolves fighting inside of you. One is bad; he is guilt, anger, jealousy, doubt and negativity. The other one is good; he is joy, hope, love, forgiveness and positivity."

The boy said to the chief,

"Which one will win?"

And the chief replied,

"The one that you feed."

Hello =) felt like blogging but don't have a specific topic lol so I'll talk about Tigger =) 

We are 36 weeks and 3 days gone so less than 4 weeks to go, and as of Thursday we are technically classed as "Full-Term" which means if she is born from then she'll be able to breathe etc on her own without needing help from the hospital =) at this point we are just getting more and more excited about the idea of holding her in our arms (or him if it turns out the midwives were wrong lol!). David was rubbing bump today and had that glazed look in his eyes of pure love and excitement and said "I can't wait to hold her", he's such a sweetie ^.^ I don't know what I would do without him lol! 
We are very ready for the arrival of little one, hospital bag is packed and in the car, as well as car seat, change bag for the pram is sorted, nursery is completely finished ^_^ I've even set up the bottle steriliser in the kitchen in case she doesn't attach to breast feeding - yes I am a bit of an organiser lol! Well what do you expect with 24 hours a day to use up lol?? I still refuse to lower myself to watching Jezza Kyle lol! Iv uploaded a couple of pics of the nursery below :) I'm so proud, its too cute! It still doesn't feel real lol! I go in and it feels like someone else's place! So excited =)

So tomorrow we have our next meeting with the midwife to do general check ups which I'm sure will go great as usual and I started my antenatal classes on Friday so my next one is this friday. It was pretty good, learning about pain relief and breathing techniques lol, its all feeling more and more real haa. 

So now I find myself with sod all to do lol, everyone is saying "enjoy this time to do nothing" lol and trust me i am trying! I've always struggled to just do nothing, I always end up re-arranging a room, or going through my things, always sorting something out lol so I've really found it hard to do nothing lol I've even started enjoying cleaning! And im planning on buying an iron!! What is happening to me lol. I've been doing jigsaws and I have a pile of disney dvds to watch thanks to lovely sister in law lol. 
This week has been easier as I've got my mum's chihuahua to keep me company whilst she and stepdad have gone away to New York for the week. He is so lovely, such a little cutie (see image below)

I won't want him to leave on Friday lol he's so cute and I love having his company! 

So I've just rambled on about nothing really lol this must have been really boring for you to read haa! Ahh well! So I'll leave you with another little thing to do from the "30 Things" list:

**What's the one thing you would tell your 16 year old self, if you could?

Love xx

30 things

Hey, haven't blogged in a while and found something on Pinterest that I thought was quite interesting, it's called "30 Things" and it was basically a list of questions to ask yourself or your partner or someone you're just getting to know. Me and my partner have been together 7 years today - wow! Cannot believe it's been that long :) and yet it feels like iv known him my whole life :) we've come so far and now we are starting a family of our own :) anyway today we were going through a couple of the things on the list and by the end I was feeling a little bit more grateful to certain people, I felt like I'd learnt a little bit more about my partner and even a couple of things about myself. So I thought I would blog it and see if I can get anyone else doing it.
So the first thing is:
List 20 random things about yourself. You don't need to over think these things, just think of the first thing that comes to your head an take it as your mind telling you 20 things about yourself - some you might not realise if you think to hard - others might be reminders of things about you and maybe some funny little facts about yourself that brighten up your day a little :) hope this works for some people. Remember these things make up who you are - whether it's something small or big :) it all matters. Have a lovely day xx

30 Weeks

So we are in the last 10 weeks of the pregnancy and I cannot believe how quickly it has gone!! Things are really starting to feel real now, our flat is full of beautiful baby things; pushchair, bouncer, Moses basket, change bag, nappies, baby monitors, play mat lol! To see all the lovely things around really makes it feel real. It still sounds funny when I say 'I'm gonna be a mum' lol but I'm sure it will hit me when I'm holding her in my arms. Now is that time where we have to start thinking about birth plans and really preparing for her arrival lol that's a bit scary! Also, I finish work on Tuesday - that's come quickly as well! And we are moving in a couple of weeks so there's that to keep our minds busy and then it's our 7 year anniversary ^.^ so excited!! I just cannot believe how far we have come. David has been amazing as I knew he would be, he's really looking after me and already protective of both his girls; me and tigger <3 I cannot wait to see him become a daddy ^.^ it's going to be the most Amazing thing in the world.
Just thought I'd share that :)

Take care now, bye bye then x