Time Flies When One is Sleep Deprived!

Wow, where did those weeks go?! My new arrival is now 7 weeks old and growing fast as you can see from the photograph below. Thank you so much for all of the well wishes on my last post, I enjoyed reading each and every one of them. Isaac is such a lovely baby. He sleeps for much of the day/night but still feeds every 2/3 hours. He was a small baby so I guess that's to be expected for a while yet but 3am is one lonely hour!



I'm managing to grab a few minutes here and there to catch up with my stitching. I finished the baby boy record that I was working on just before I went into labour, for Isaac. I'm waiting until he has his own nursery before I decide how to frame it.


'Sweet Baby Birth Record' by Dimensions
32ct ivory linen

My sister-in-law was due her baby the week after me but had to wait until the 15th of April before the baby made an appearance. She had a little girl named Milly Edith. She's absolutely gorgeous! She doesn't look like Isaac at all, she's huge in comparison with a mop of jet black hair. Poor Isaac will have hair envy! My sister-in-law is mad about bunnies so I adapted the Trilogy's 'Happy Bunny Bunny Day' and made a birth sampler. Coincidentally 2011 is also the year of the rabbit. I stitched Milly's initials in a contrasting colour so that they would stand out. I'm really pleased with how it turned out and the framing, despite being very cheap, looks great!


'Happy Bunny Bunny Day' by The Trilogy
32ct summer khaki linen



The charms that I'd ordered for 'Charming Santa' arrived the day that I went into labour, so unfortunately they sat in my sewing bag for over a month! As you can see from the photograph, there's a charm missing from top right of the gold strand of beads that Santa is holding. I thought a little gold 'made with love' charm would look really cute here, but I can't for the life of me find them anywhere! My sewing bag is a bottomless pit at the moment that is long overdue for a good sort out.


'Charming Santa'
Better Homes & Gardens Christmas 2002'
32ct Natural Belfast Linen



I'm still on track with my ornies for Christmas. This past couple of weeks I've finished two LHN ornaments from the 2010 series. I so enjoy stitching these although there are charts from the 2010 series that I've yet to buy. Have you seen the latest 2011 May ornie 'Gingerbread Village'? It's a 'must have' for me.



Peppermint Twist by LHN
32ct Natural Belfast Linen


Under the Tree by LHN
32ct Natural Belfast Linen

The other news from me (and I can't believe I haven't mentioned it before now!) is that we're moving north! In fact, we already have to all intents and purposes. My DH came home from work one day when I was 7 months pregnant and told me he'd applied for a job in Leeds. I kind of put it to the back of my mind, not expecting that anything would come of it, but lo and behold he got the job! So, 8 weeks before Isaac arrived we had to finish refurbishing our home and get our affairs in order for the big move! I've always wanted to move back north and in the back of my mind I knew we would one day, but not this soon! And not when heavily pregnant! Luckily we finished the house seconds before the valuer came round (with lots of help from my parents) and it sold 3 days after going on the market, for asking price and to cash buyers. We are now living with my parents whilst we search for a house. We're hoping to move to a lovely market town in North Yorkshire, but it seems lots of other people do too as we keep on getting pipped at the post with houses we like. We put an offer in on a house yesterday and the agent rang to let us know 3 other couples had put offers in too! I'm sure the perfect house will come up soon. The link below is to my lovely home on Right Move. If only we could have picked the house up and moved it North with us.

Ok, better leave it there, hopefully I'll be able to post again very soon!

Regards,

Christina