Pretty Presents

The best gifts are the unexpected ones...and the oh so very gorgeous ones! Like the new fabulous Ness purse which I have been lusting after for months and am currently sat filling and organising, thanks to the rather lovely people that brought it for me!

And sleeping (occasionally)

Sleep does not happen much here! For me at least LOL The joys of our rather dysfunctional family life means we are all very much night owls and go to bed/sleep late. And Oliver, as with all my children, does not really understand the concept of sleep unless he is feeding or being worn.

Even so, there is something astoundingly beautiful about a sleeping baby...

Knitting...

I have to confess, knitting depresses me at the moment. Or rather lack of knitting. I quite literally snatch a few minutes when Oliver has fallen asleep whilst feeding and even then it has to be with him on the right (well, left!) side and with my WIP nearby...and I generally forfeit the short "me" time for working on my phone/laptop <sigh>

With 3 projects on the go I was determined not to start another but I'm easily swayed, especially by all the gorgeous pictures of friends taking part in the Crafts from the Cwtch knitalong. The pattern, Color Affection by Veera Välimäki called for three co-ordinating yarns so a raid of the stash came up with these:

From left to right: Fyberspates Unicorn, Knit Picks Bare (which has been a tangled mess for nearly two years!) and Noro Silk Garden Lite, which is left over from a wedding shrug I made a couple of years a go.

The pattern is easily memorised, so ideal for knitting whilst feeding although I imagine it'll be next June before I actually manage to finish it (or even untangle that skein of yarn!)

Slings...

It's been a while since I've had time to update so here goes for a mammoth amounts of posts!

I've generally always been a Didy girl with the odd Girasol, Hopp and Lana thrown in when it comes to my wrap stash. Just before Oliver was born I snagged an Oscha JK Coll Ooki off FSOT and despite it being a size smaller than I prefer I was hooked! Once the Natural Mama Oscha's started arriving and I saw one in the flesh I knew I needed one and sure enough, once our shortie arrived it was love at first site.

I was then lucky enough to be online as the new Oscha's were uploaded to the shop and was incredibly naughty (been a long time since I brought a new release!) But it was so worth it as we are amazingly in love with our new Oscha Roses Scarista <3