It's been a while

Hey, I've not been round for a while... Life has been very busy over the last couple of months. I'm in Dorset looking after my fabulous mum who is fighting the unmerciful and indiscriminate disease of cancer. It's been a true to joy to be able to serve her in this way and I will continue to do that until she goes home to be with the Lord Jesus. 

Meanwhile my little nudger has become a macarena dancing, martial arts practising heffer. I love being able to feel my baby but it is becoming a little bizarre to see poking limbs and I quite frequently scare James by my cries of 'Ah'  and 'Ooh' when the baby goes in for the kill. Wouldn't change it for the world tho.

I'm gonna be 34 weeks on Wednesday... all very exciting. I'll let you know what the midwife says....

Meanwhile check out www.vertbaudet.co.uk some beautiful stuff on there... we have purchased a gorgeous bumper and cot sheet from there, animals range

29 Weeks pregnant

So here is my 29 week pic although I am 30 weeks today, hooray for numbers starting with 3!!

I actually look a lot bigger than this most of the time, must have been holding it in. 

Also, had a 4d scan last week thanks to a very kind friend... not sure whether to put up the pic tho, so at the mo, I'll just assure you that I'm carrying a very very cute little thing!

Pioneer woman, we love you

At the weekend my trusty baking buddy Sarah and I decided to give The Pioneer Woman's 'donut' recipe a bash! Sarah made the dough before I got there but the rest we fashioned using our own bare hands and the inside of a kinder egg to cut out the donut inners!

Here they are rising like little batters of joy

This is them ready to go into the big scary pot of hot oil!

Here is one being dunked into a heavely bath of sugar

Here is one sat chilling following it's bath. Unashamed of it's nudity

And here my friend is pure unadulterated joy

If you would like to make these yourself here is the link to Pioneer Woman's recipe

25 week pic

Here is me after a late shift at work, can't you tell by the hair :s Bambini bump seems to have really grown this week and movement is becoming a lot more obvious from the outside. Had an antenatal appointment also this week, the midwife said I had a lovely bump and the heart beat was lovely strong and loud, so happy days :)

Tickers...

Nursery Ideas

So, I've been looking at ideas for nurserys lately. We're still not sure what we want to do with the room, and we certainlty don't want to spend much (and we need it to possibly be a guest room) so the plan to cover every wall with teddies is out... :)

These have been some ideas...

I'm loving the tree idea... simple, easily paint overable and you can add matching accessories to the tree, such as owls or leaves etc

 This example being a M&P one...

I also think this is very sweet, along the same lines of simple background colour with just a little detail that could be easily changed. Like the owls, I like the little birds...

For something a little different, I also like this. I like the thought of alphabets, and this is pretty funky...

So all in all, a few different ideas.... getting the creational juices flowing!

Any thoughts?

Bakewell tart

Oh Alice, you have done a bad thing... I have woken up this morning craving almonds, jam and icing.... Town it is for ingredients then :(