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I am addicted to Etsy. I love it. Absolutely love it. There is nothing that I could possibly want that I could not find on Etsy. My love for it was reignited when I was in the last few weeks of pregnancy, daydreaming about wearing something other than pyjamas with a highly elasticated waistband, dreaming about the time when I would once again be able to wear something that I actually liked. I bought quite a few dresses in those last few weeks, managing to think up little reasons why I deserved a present that day, things like surviving the day without taking an afternoon nap or doing the hoovering were all relevant and deserving of a gift to myself. And now I have had my lovely baby things like managing to get dressed <i>and</i> apply make-up within the same day or moving the ever growing pile of clean washing off the stairs and to its next destination are just as treat-worthy. The other day, after a lengthy debate with myself over what I needed to add to the kitchen I decided on some vintage mugs so I scrolled through pages and pages, adding to my favourites list (which is now up to about 135 items). I have found so many that I love but eventually settled for some much needed vintage pot holders. And the best thing is, I never even knew that I needed them. Much joy.</div>
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<br />I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-84372430984428791712012-07-09T09:28:00.001-07:002012-07-09T10:22:31.589-07:00A weekend at the park<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
We just got back last night from a lovely couple of days in Birmingham with <a href="http://www.emmacasephotography.blogspot.com/">Emma and Pete</a>, we walked, talked, ate lots, got wet in the rain and then hot in the sun, saw animals at the zoo, drank tea and won teddies at the fair. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was great to spend quality time doing things that the children loved, away from work, away from home. We love them very very much.</span>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-90510369461341853172012-07-06T03:03:00.001-07:002012-07-06T03:23:21.440-07:00At last!<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
When Freddie was a couple of days old we found out that both of his hips were dislocated, something that I had when I was a baby and Freddie's brother Ben also had. With Ben, we didn't find out until he was about 14 months old and he had to go into a plaster cast that went from under his arms right down both legs for 6 months. But despite this, little Ben learned to walk and could even climb up stairs with his plaster on. He was such a little star. As it was found early with Fred he was put into a harness when he was 2 weeks old to keep his hips apart so they can grow properly and has just finished his 6th week. </div>
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He now can be weaned off the harness, this week he can have an hour a day out of the harness, next week 2 hours a day, then 4 hours a day until he is only wearing it at night. It was so wonderful to have our baby free to wriggle, to give him a bath (as we weren't allowed to take the harness off at all until yesterday) and to just have a cuddle with our naked baby! He seems so much smaller when it is off, like a little newborn again. He is just so yummy.</div>
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Freedom!</div>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-3925448752510653822012-06-29T10:21:00.002-07:002012-06-29T10:21:35.787-07:00Home & Homework<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have broken the habit of a lifetime by getting on with homework on a Friday evening rather than last thing on Sunday. Daisy wasn't very impressed by my efforts but she got on with it anyway (the picture at the top of her work is of a black cinema screen, she wasn't feeling very artistic).</div>
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Freddie's nursery is now finished and I just love it - his face lights up whenever we go in there. He is still in our room at night but it's ready and waiting for him...</div>
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<br />I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-18306967466807743392012-06-28T09:56:00.002-07:002012-06-28T09:56:54.749-07:00What I got<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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fab Pyrex nesting bowls</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and a gorgeous old Doctors bag!</span></div>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-40845833152753586202012-06-27T13:49:00.003-07:002012-06-27T13:49:50.985-07:00Tea and Cake<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
My friend Jennifer came round this afternoon for a cuddle with Freddie, her little boy Alex goes to school with Daisy (Daisy LOVES Alex, she has asked him to marry her but is still awaiting a reply). This very lovely lady made this very lovely cake for us! It is just so pretty that I cannot bear to cut, Daisy is so desperate to eat it that we have had tears. But I simply can't. It's just too special.</div>
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I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-78219598049642631312012-06-24T03:51:00.000-07:002012-06-24T03:51:32.606-07:00Sleeping Baby<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Freddie has just slept through the night for the 3rd night running, I feel so much better for getting that extra bit of sleep. It will be so amazing if this continues but I do remember being lulled into a false sense of security with Daisy who was a great sleeper until she was 3 months and then that was it, she didn't sleep properly through the night until she was 3 years old. She used to wake up shouting that she wanted cake in the middle of the night and wake the whole house up ~ the boys were not amused. She is better at night now but still enjoys a midnight feast, I get her up on the morning to find chocolate round her mouth and her teddies sat around a little picnic blanket.</div>
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Our room has blinds up at the windows and they don't keep the light out very well so I have been looking out for some curtains that would do a better job. The car boot sale on Wednesday was awesome. We went over to ask a guy how much he wanted for an old tea chest and noticed that he had heaps of vintage fabric, curtains, bed linen and tablecloths and I literally filled up two huge black bags with everything I could and I found a pair of curtains that fit the window perfectly so I think they are to thank for my baby sleeping so well. And they look fab. </div>
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<br />I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-80000878407595722862012-06-21T08:39:00.002-07:002012-06-21T08:39:55.496-07:00Teeth.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday Daisy lost her first tooth. This tooth has been wobbly since about March and was literally hanging on by a thread. Every day we would have an update on how far she could push it forward with her tongue, on Tuesday, our last update, she was convinced it needed to click 2 more times before it would come out. Then, while on her way to Rainbows it just fell out into her hand. She was with my cousin Kate when it happened but when I picked her up the beam on her face was huge. I actually don't think I have ever seen her smile quite so hard as she showed me the gap and unwrapped the little piece of tissue paper containing her tiny tooth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Meanwhile, Freddie has been dribbling continuously for days, he has had blotchy cheeks, is biting down on anything he can and has been quite unsettled. He is only 6 weeks old and I have never known a baby teething at this age, but what else could it be? Can babies be getting their teeth through this early? </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What can you do to sooth such tiny gums? Poor little bubba x</span>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-8215110674404672482012-06-18T13:06:00.003-07:002012-06-18T13:06:42.696-07:00Happy days...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weekend was great fun. Saturday was a ballet day, Daisy had her usual lesson in the morning then a rehersal for her modern dance exam in the afternoon. I managed a quick scout around for some treasures while she was in there and found these lovelies. I am a bit obsessed with typewriters at the moment. Sunday morning it was actually not raining for once so we were all up early and off to the car boot sales, Freddie only slept for 2 hours Saturday night so keeping my eyes open was quite a task. We came home and had a big Fathers Day brekkie, Nathan opened the many many cards that Daisy had made him and we headed into Winchester to the Vintage Market and a wander round the shops, Ben bought a hat he's never going to wear and an expensive pair of trousers and Daisy bought a rabbit on a spring that is now called Bounce (not to be confused with Bounce-Bounce, her trusty favourite rabbit). And I found some lovely vintage Pyrex cups! Happy days!</div>
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<br />I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-43329973406328295212012-06-15T04:23:00.002-07:002012-06-15T04:23:45.575-07:00Freddie.<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">It is SOOOO windy outside. Freddie and I are having a cosy day indoors still in our jammies. Plan for the day? Look through photos and drink lots of tea.</span></div>
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<br />I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-63518628465508995522012-06-14T06:59:00.000-07:002012-06-14T06:59:12.744-07:00Cake.<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<a href="http://www.sweetapolita.com/2012/06/how-to-make-a-perfectly-delightful-vanilla-birthday-cake/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1d2HELKh79sDIR_lz-c_ARo5ITaZP4-zNO0XP-syi1nyo2Apl9oo3V-iHDc5dYfdI2UDh7zt8uKGXU2C07Q0LdAoEUzvicOGK9oAfMkk__Isk5Z3plD8C262NgoPoKHmHPQmMcQyK5M/s400/640cake-540x783.jpg" width="275" /></a>I love cakes. Just love them. I love how they look, I love eating them of course and the urge to make a big gooey cake is always there. If I see a recipe for a pretty cake I write down all the ingredients needed and if I actually get round to buying them the next stage of making the cake rarely happens. So I have a cupboard jam packed with cake decorations, icing (in various forms, a few boxes of icing sugar, a pack of royal icing, several tubes of writing icing - some gone hard and some just about usable), every shade of food colour, large quantities of flour... you get the picture. I recently found THE most amazing blog whilst pinning pictures of baked goodies on Pinterest and if you love cakes you need to have a look at <a href="http://www.sweetapolita.com/blog/">Sweetapolita</a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am aware that I was clearly over estimating my cake making skills which usually consist of buying a box of ready made cake mix but the pictures were just so pretty and when I showed Daisy she convinced me that we could definitely do this. I made my list. I sent my man off to purchase everything needed (I didn't realise that ingredients from an American website would have a completely different name here), but with a bit of help from a couple of old ladies he discovered that vegetable shortening is margarine, confectioners sugar is icing sugar and pink gel is a bit like food colouring. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am not one for properly reading therefore not properly understanding instructions, I improvise a lot. I don't have a Kitchenaid - I have a small Magimix food processor given to me by my gran when she bought herself a better one and I don't think it has a 'paddle' attachment which is what the instructions said I needed here. Please note : this amount of ingredients will not fit into a Magimix. I discovered this after trying to sieve in vast amounts of flour twice. I abandoned this idea, transferred it into a big bowl and used an electric hand whisk, circa 1970, also from my gran. It worked out OK, the whisk did sound like it was going to pass out from the strain of the sheer volume of cake batter but it got there in the end. So the batter was done and tasting good, the next step was to put this into two cake tins, bake, then repeat as it is a four layered cake. I weighed out the exact amount of batter, feeling very professional, into my lined, greased tins. Alas, my tins were smaller than required which resulted in the this...</span><br />
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After cleaning up this mess, feeding the baby, bathing Daisy, doing some GCSE maths with Jacob and chatting to Ben about his new cool hairstyle, I baked the remainder of the batter and it did turn out well in the end. In fact it was the yummiest cake I have ever eaten. We covered it in pink ice cream flavour frosting and edible glitter and.... ta da....</div>
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<span id="goog_113833087"></span><span id="goog_113833088"></span>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-28184811887827253742012-06-12T03:49:00.002-07:002012-06-12T03:49:41.032-07:00Vintage Snapshots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of our latest auction finds was a huge box of vintage cameras, we had great fun going through them and figuring out how each one worked. So many fab designs, they just look great on display. This is exactly why I love what we do ~ my living room floor is covered in cameras ~ never a dull moment...</div>
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I thought I would brighten up this dark, gloomy, wet June day with some pictures from my baby shower that we had 2 weeks before Freddie arrived (as you can see I was fit to burst - walking, standing, I was finding it all a bit of a challenge). It has to be my favourite party ever with all of my favourite people. And lots of yummy food. We played games and had the most amazing magician ~ I am convinced he was truly magic. Everyone gave a gift of a book that was their favourite story from childhood ~ a wonderful collection for a very lucky Freddie. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beautiful pictures by beautiful Emma Case...</span>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-40896112326921916662012-06-04T13:59:00.000-07:002012-06-04T13:59:54.635-07:00Baby Blue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So much time has passed since I last posted on our little blog and so much has happened... Our little boy Freddie was born on his due date, May 7th weighing a very good size at 10 lb 7oz. It wasn't the easiest labour by any means, due mainly to the fact that I am a just a mere human being of average proportions and surely not designed to produce offspring of that size (the day after Freddie was born we were watching Earth Watch and there was a bear cub, an American grizzly bear cub, a few days old that actually weighed less than Freddie). It all looked set to be a text book perfect labour, on the morning of the 7th my waters broke at 4am, contractions followed quickly after and by 10am I was in established labour. From there on it quickly changed as he was facing the wrong way and was in distress but cutting out all the gory details he was born with a forceps delivery at 3.24pm and my beautiful bundle was in my arms and I was head over heels in love with my new little man.</div>
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We were in hospital for a week while his brothers and sister were at home with my mum patiently waiting for their baby brother to come home. They just adore him. Daisy would be full time carer if I let her, she places herself right next to him at all times just in case she's needed. He is starting to look at her with fascinated eyes and I can see a deep friendship ahead for these two little people. </div>
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~ There is so much that has happened on the run up to little Freddies arrival that I want to share so I am going to go back in time over the next week or so and fill in the gaps of my long absence xx</div>
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<br />I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-17078102142333020572012-03-04T07:31:00.000-08:002012-03-04T07:31:55.357-08:00Beach Bums<div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It has been actually been snowing here quite hard today, yesterday it was too warm to even wear a coat but today I put on my woolly hat and winter coat and planned what to do when we are snowed in. It has since stopped snowing and the sun is back out so I won't be cleaning out the utility room or catching up on the ironing (as if I was really going to do this). </div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Back in half term we took the children down to Cornwall for a little break and family bonding time as it is hard to get the whole family spending time together when you have a 15 year old who thinks we are highly embarrassing and a love sick 11 year old. But down in Cornwall there is no choice. There is nowhere for them to escape. It was a lovely quiet week of not doing an awful lot, cuddling up on the sofa watching movies, walks on the beach, and 5 evenings of trying to light the open fire convinced that the next day the wood we had got would in fact be of dry enough quality to set fire to. We never had a fire that lasted for more than 5 minutes and we settled for big blankets to add the cosy factor. </div><br />
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<div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It really wasn't as warm as it looked on the beach, it was ear ache cold. But the beach is just the best place to be whatever the weather, watching the sea and the people out and about never gets boring. For an adult or child anyway. According to the teenager it's the most boring and pointless place ever. Why would anyone want to do this? Why would you live so far away from major high street stores and grotty parks with grotty benches to sit on with your mates all evening? But as you can see from evidence A and C there are traces of a smile on his face so we decided that his rants were merely for effect and ignored him. </div><div style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> So, today, I googled 'ladybird infestation' in the hope of finding someone who has a similar bug issue and an amazing way to deter the little visitors from wanting to live with me. I did find a fair few people with this problem but the only answers I could find were based around <i>'you lucky person! Ladybirds are lovely, we should welcome them in...'</i> etc. I even found one from a guy asking for the poor ladybug victim to send him some of the bugs so he could start up his own colony. Not what I was hoping for. But then I came across one of the funniest things I have ever read. A kindred spirit. And by reading this you may have a bit more of an idea of my predicament.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I think we may have an infestation of ladybirds.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">According to my beloved, impolitely reading over my shoulder as I type, infestation may be a little strong, or dramatic, or something. </div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Revision: Though they may be deviously and misleadingly few in number, I think we may potentially be lethally overrun by deadly ninja ladybirds.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This poses a problem. See, I am not afraid of ladybirds, not like mice. Ladybirds don’t scuttle, or hide under your sofa, or nibble your belongings, and are only <i>really</i> terrifying if they fly at you while you are on the toilet.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The problem is, however, that we mainly seem to have the kind of ladybird who is particularly keen on flying at you while you are on the toilet. You know the type. There are probably dirty niche internet chatrooms full of them.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But I am still confused. How is an infestation of ladybirds possible? Surely the air at this altitude (third floor) is simply to thin for them to live? This is probably the reason you don’t see ladybirds climbing Everest very often, for example. </div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">First there was just one, in the bathroom, perched on the geranium in an aesthetically pleasing fashion. Then there was another, in the living room, skipping sweetly across the window sill. Then there was another, curvy-side down on the rim of the bath, like a tiny tipped-up turtle. Except red. And dead. Then another on the windowsill, next to the first one, which was also dead. </div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And though they keep dying, they also seem to keep coming, and the problem I have is that I can’t stop the cycle, see, because I CAN’T KILL THEM.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It’s impossible. It’s like having an infestation of fairies. I spent a childhood surrounded by picture books with the little babybug emblazoned in the corner. There were songs about them, stuffed furry ones to cuddle at night and my GOD, they were ALL Over Christmas jumpers - and am I supposed to kill them now?</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spiders, I can happily kill, or at least throw out of a window without a parachute. Midges? Smoke the hell out of them. Kill all bluebottles. Fuck the cockroach community. Wasps? Dead faster than you can say . Mice? Snap their little necks. Ants - spray’em, bake’em, grill’em, fry’em, who cares, they’re ants. </div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But these? No. </div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No matter how hard I try to do it, I can’t drop a book on the ladybirds. It would feel like putting a bullet through a butterfly or kicking a kitten in the knees. I keep telling myself that they have poisonous wee, or secret sets of sharp and pointy teeth that in the dead of the night they’ll bite my nose off with, but no. I still can’t do it.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They’re cute. They’re red, and spotty. They flutter, sometimes. And unless they radically adjust the one-out/one-in policy, or, in fact, the de facto one-dead/one-in policy, I can’t see that they’re actually going to be able to bathroomarily overpower me and make me dead.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But damn them for being cute. And damn me for being a wuss about it. It’s this kind of policy of appeasment that started the second world war. It’s a terrifying thought. Today, I allow the ladybirds, tomorrow, Hitler invades. </div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My flat. </div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While I’m on the toilet.</div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They’re a worrying thing, ladybirds. You can see why I might be fretting. </div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-47232115700417652952012-02-03T10:23:00.000-08:002012-02-03T10:24:00.015-08:00Another week, another colour...It's the end of another busy week at the Old White headquarters and the bump is getting bigger, I actually couldn't paint the inside of a cupboard today as I couldn't get near enough. Tis true. At home we have been getting on with the nursery, I have also been continuing with my self-taught crochet lessons ( I have created a piece of crochet about an inch long ~ not sure what it is going to be yet ~ but I am still proud of my very small achievement) and at the shop we have been finishing off lots of nice bits of furniture ~ finishing off is my favourite bit ~ when all the hard work comes together and I can stand back, take a look and think 'If only I had more room at home...'<br />
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This dresser is probably the prettiest one we have ever had, it is just so gorgeous. And I don't have any room at home.<br />
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</div>The colour is Cornforth White, an elegant pale grey shade and we have done quite a few pieces in this colour this week ~ a bookcase with a chicken wire front, a pine table and chairs set... <br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Introducing.... our little bubba! The sweetest little face, I just can't wait to see him for real. I just can't wait. And yes, I said 'him', we are having a little boy baby! My bump is getting so big and I still have 15 weeks to go. I have been going through my wardrobe today and found another dress that just about fits - today is a good day. We are going to start rearranging the bedrooms today so Ben will move into the study downstairs, he is so excited about this, it's quite out-the-way of the rest of the house so it's like he has own wing. Right next to the kitchen. And the back door. Not sure how good an idea this is but we will see. The baby's room is my next project, we have been collecting little bits and pieces so I just need to get putting it all together and I have been gathering inspiration from all over the place. I love the vintage pictures held up with pegs! Just adorable! </div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have finished the first piece of furniture in my new fave colour (Farrow & Ball ~ Arsenic) and I just can't stop looking at it! It is gorgeous and I am just making a list of things at home that we need to take to the workshop and get painted in the same dreamy colour. I am going to paint Nathans chest of drawers (this will be a surprise as I think he may protest but believe me, he will love them when done. How could he not?) I am also going to paint our chapel chairs as they are in need of a little something. We have a pretty little bedside table at the workshop which would look fab (again, this will be in the form of a present for my man. I really think it would look great in or bedroom and there is no space down my side of the bed. A present can never be turned down as that would just be rude). I started a lovely pine corner cabinet and a pretty set of wall shelves in this colour aswell which will be going on the website next week, I know I may be going OTT with this paint but I seriously love it. If you love it too take a look as I am sure Nath will not be letting me get another tin.</div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just had to convince this little one that the brown sauce in her steak pie was not chocolate. Dinner time can be challenging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In other news, I have found my new favourite colour, one that I would quite happily paint every piece of furniture in my house in. It is simply beautiful and we have been using it at Old White today so expect lots of furniture in this colour on our website...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Deeeelicious.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-87766904127050936912012-01-08T04:53:00.000-08:002012-01-08T05:02:50.984-08:00Our Christmas <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's January 7th already! I really can't believe how quickly time is moving forward. I have been blog absent for a while due to Christmas which always comes with heaps of things to keep us busy. We took the children on a very special trip to Disneyland Paris at the beginning of December and it really was the best holiday we have ever been on. Seeing Daisy so captivated by the magic was the best Christmas present I could wish for, she totally believed that all the characters were real - it is such an amazing place - the boys got so into the Christmas spirit - we were so very lucky to have been able to go.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-39125974761416587402011-11-09T12:05:00.000-08:002011-11-09T12:05:25.420-08:00Christmas Market Time <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We have a great day in the shop, I love days like today when time just goes way too fast but you feel like you have got a lot done. We have decided which markets we will have a stall at over Christmas which I am really looking forward to. We will be at Bargate, Southampton on Thursdays and Saturdays, Winchester on Fridays and Sundays and the brilliant Vintage Market in Winchester on 4th December, and finally the Christmas Extravaganza in Eastleigh for the grand turning on of the Christmas lights. Phew! I know that it will just make the run up to Christmas even more Christmassy and give me more of a chance to have a sneeky browse round the markets...</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tomorrow I am heading up to London for a day out with my mama at the Country Living Christmas Fair which is going to be brill, my mum is panicking about whether there is enough oil in her car, water in her car etc etc, which is not that much of a problem as we are only driving to the train station but never the less, she has asked if Nathan could check it for her in the morning. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have just got round to looking through the pictures we took at my brothers Halloween party, eeek!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-pPR0IS8RBHxYHkgf4VMKqXrbtpBdwf9tr9SICa5uwlWfjGraKRAcePONkzcgnTpPp_T3wNIaJowzXwattRh6JHqeD_C-NOECuQ_lbDBY-ZCG2BUqGQQ7OX-wvQN_o4mcr3MjKEJItuc/s1600/DSC08188_face0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-pPR0IS8RBHxYHkgf4VMKqXrbtpBdwf9tr9SICa5uwlWfjGraKRAcePONkzcgnTpPp_T3wNIaJowzXwattRh6JHqeD_C-NOECuQ_lbDBY-ZCG2BUqGQQ7OX-wvQN_o4mcr3MjKEJItuc/s1600/DSC08188_face0.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is my favourite time of year, I just love it. Halloween, Bonfire night and my birthday all on the run up to Christmas. Cosy evenings, leaves everywhere and the need to drink hot chocolate and eat marmite on toast for supper. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It has been a busy couple of weeks, we went to a Halloween party at my brothers house which was such fun, apple bobbing, sweets hidden in bowls of flour... trick or treating with Daisy and even though she is only 5, she knows that a cute outfit and a winning smile = lots of sweeties. The boys are finding trick or treating slightly harder now they lack the 'ahhh' factor, its quite hard to come across as cute when you are 15, smiling looks more sarcastic than sweet so they just ate Daisys sweets instead. Meanies. I love how much effort people go to at Halloween, dressing up and decorating their houses. Brilliant!</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My birthday is on Friday and Nathan and I are going up to London for the day which will be great fun and then picking up my new car on the way home, my mum and I are going to the Country Living Christmas Fair on Thursday which is just shopping heaven. Highly dangerous. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I can't stop talking/thinking/planning Christmas Day, I know it feels early but in about 3 weeks we will be starting to put up our decorations! I can't believe it, and containing my excitement is getting quite hard. I seem to get all crafty when the evenings are dark so early and I just want to make stuff - I have cut out lots of pieces of fabric, lots, with all sorts of grand plans in mind so we shall see! I did make a rag garland last night which I actually started in 2004 - I really was a proud lass looking at the finished product and I think I shall make some more this afternoon, some Christmassy ones, or at least start them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> So, back to the real reason why I have been a blog neglecting tired unorganised young lady. We have recently moved and after all the move and the excitement I was feeling quite exhausted. In fact, I don't think I have ever felt so tired in my life, falling asleep on the sofa which I NEVER do and I just had this 'I just don't have the energy to do a thing' feeling all the time. The move was pretty heavy going as was the shop so I put it down to overdoing it a bit. But, turns out, we are expecting baby number 4! Oh my goodness, what a wonderful, surprising, exciting and overwhelming piece of news it was! I really thought 3 children was where we were at but no, its actually 4. 4 children, mother of 4, that's quite a lot isn't it? </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We had our 12 week scan today and saw the little bambino wriggling and fidgeting about, how amazing! We saw its hands! And it had a little pout! I absolutely cannot wait to meet our little being...</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have some gorgeous scan pics which I will put on here tomorrow but its too dark to get a good shot. But these are more pictures of how the house is coming along...</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I'm Zoe...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02827245596777755501noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656025211825142366.post-88836200677308201632011-10-26T07:04:00.000-07:002011-10-26T07:04:03.743-07:00I'm back.<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have been away from this blog for so long that I actually forgot my password but with password retrieved and the house finished I have made a promise to myself to be a better blogger. There are reasons for my absence which I shall share tomorrow but until all can be revealed I have taken some pics of our house as proof that I haven't just been sat around watching Jeremy Kyle. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the weekend we finished the bathroom which I am totally in love with. It has a beach chic feel and I can't stop going in there just to look around - it's just so pretty!</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am becoming a wee bit obsessed with the colour green at the moment, I have actually started typing into the ebay or etsy search bar 'Green' just to see what comes up - I have found some pretty cool stuff which I never even knew I wanted or in fact existed but it is green and vintage so therefore a purchase.</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> This gorgeous chair was a pressie from my lovely girlie Emma Case but the fabric was found on a vintage green search...</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">More green search items...</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our kitchen has been a work in progress for a few weeks now. We had no cooker for quite some time, which resulted in take outs and more take outs. I have actually gone off MacDonalds which until recently was well known as being in my top 3 meals. It got to the point where Daisy would ask to see the menu when you asked her what she would like for dinner. Not good. So I have gone into 'home cooked meal' mode all ready for the cosy winter.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We now have a new cooker which is a lot bigger than the old one so had to get rid of some work space and drawers but we found this old kitchen unit last week and it fits perfectly - love it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UJNp10DOC-3P6PqCQfCqYzg1Foibe8aKC16zmt6JrkgrQWU357-rh4b0EIg47gvGhEDT5povPx9EQ8XvoTxRhNLX-bvyAWtknuIj6dLIhNHZIe3IPEA4sT_pFU7CaYubRtt_ii-xPW8/s1600/DSC08075.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UJNp10DOC-3P6PqCQfCqYzg1Foibe8aKC16zmt6JrkgrQWU357-rh4b0EIg47gvGhEDT5povPx9EQ8XvoTxRhNLX-bvyAWtknuIj6dLIhNHZIe3IPEA4sT_pFU7CaYubRtt_ii-xPW8/s400/DSC08075.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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