Hey x

Just a little update for you all as i dont seem to be able to summon the strength for a full post!

Bump is growing, bigger and bigger with every passing week, my mum took this picture for me the other day, and, as i have hardly any photos of myself pregnant with the girls coupled with the fact that i think this will probably be my last baby im trying not to be too vain, and just enjoy the moment (although i confess when i saw this picture i said 'oh my god im HUGE!)

This is a kind of everyday look for me, my old faithful Next riding boots, very excited that im finally replacing these this week, hurrah!

..In case you were wondering about the rest of my outfit; Pink bobble necklace from Joules, non-maternity-live-in-it staple white shirt-Next...non-maternity tank-primark-LOVE the colour...Non-maternity,New, cable knit leggings-new look...Chunky ring accessorize(i think).

Moving on, i keep staring at my mantlepiece this week, just-enjoying it. Its crammed full(not normally a 'look' i go in for) and it makes me smile as it reminds me of my girls.

Can you see the stunning hyacinths? They smell beautiful and im so pleased with how 'full'they are, you know, with hyacinths, as they start to come out, they can look a bit ropey, and you think, bugger, i shouldn't have bought 50p bulbs?!...

Alson on the mantle i have this beautiful card from my Ruby, made for me at lunchtime art club. Poppy is my arty girl so Ruby surprised me with this and i was stunned at how much work she had put in...and next to it-the bottle dolly! Adorable isnt she?

My card read 'To Mummy, yoo are a byootiful mum-love Ruby'...bless her little soul

She went food shopping with daddy on sunday and he let her choose a gift for me. She chose the purple ppp(pretty potted primula)you see there in the background, she knows me so well!

I found this candle sorting out the babys room and ive been burning it all week, doesnt really smell, its just nice to look at.

As is this little photo, my girls...

The Tete-a-Tete are blooming now...pretty, pretty,

And blue Hyacinths in the bathroom!

Hope you are all well, i will catch up again soon..i promise xxxx

A little bit of pink

Do remember a little while back i gave you a glimpse of the photo below, well today ive finally gotten around to revealing the little project i used it for.

The bathroom renovation got my creative juices flowing and i finally got round to using the paint for what it had been intended when i bought it. This hideously ugly brown wooden cabinet was used as a small bathroom storage cupboard in our old bathroom. It was there when i moved in and i guess i just never bothered to do anything with it through laziness!

So..can you see how ugly it is?

I very simply gave it a quick sand over, then painted on two coats of this glorious bubblegum pink paint.

I then installed it in its new home, as a bedside cabinet for Ruby.

I put it in place whilst she was at school, so she could 'discover' it on her return home....well, she was thrilled, and duely spent a good half hour arranging her bits and pieces inside, and on top...that was a couple of weeks ago and since then i think ive realised she may have inherited the 'home girl' gene. She has used mugs to display flowers, arranged various notebooks on it, not to mention different groups of her favourite animals...today, its mice and rabbits...

I added a beautiful glass handle from Bombay Duck, cute eh?

Here is there room as it currently stands...they share a 'big bed' now.

Its been a gloriously sunny day today, although the room looks a little dull-forgive me, my camera is seriously on its way out, not an expense i'll relish at this time of year, but with a new baby on the way i guess its a necessity!!

Haven't quite got round to buying a valance for the divan yet!

Did you spot this little lady hanging from the light?

Poppy adores her, you can purchase your own here from this lovely lady!

Ruby has filled her little cabinet with pretties and treasures..

Bless her, she has a lip balm in every pocket and drawer!

Thought id show a little pic of a corner of their room they are just arranging, i dragged this little ikea table in from the wendy house to encourage Poppy to sit here and draw and colour, rather than doing it in bed at night and ruining yet another of my double quilts with biro or felt tip!

They've used it as an 'office' this week, and even had to borrow the cordless phone to speak to 'clients'!

I love my little girls...

Love Kirsty xoxo

Happy April all!

Heeelllllooooooooooo! Hi ya, its me! you remember me down you? Bout 5'6, blonde hair, oversized bottom? Hello, and how have you all been ?

Ive been happily busily making the most of the lovely springy weather, although we have had a spout of rain but that seems to have gone for a couple of days.

Last week was spent at Mr P's parents farm while they went on a jolly to scotland before things get busy. So here's the little man in front of the Aga, his favourite place, no doubt.

Now im home ive finally gotten round to writing this post for you all, just a catch up of whats going on around the place at the moment-another 'episode' as Gem calls them!

A couple more pictures of my shadow(Ted) and murph the gorgeous boy on spring days...

I recently tackled the front borders, and since these photographs were taken even more has sprung to life....coming up ive got tulips, hacinths, lupins, salvias, hostas, a peony and a giant poppy, amongst other things.
This is the view out of the back hedge at the end of the garden....look closely, what can you see?..

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Piggies! Yes ive finally taken a couple of photos to show them to you. Its strange to stand at the backdoor with a cuppa in the morning and hear their squeals, sometimes i honestly think its a baby crying, they sound so similar! Every few days they move the pens either forward or back so that they're on new ground and this week they're quite close, so i guess you could say its smelling like a proper farm now! As our land stretches quite far through the village i get lots of comments at the school gates, people generally wondering how things are going, which is really nice. And im pleased to say we're doing even better than hoped, with many more pigs than we needed by this stage of the year.

This is a cake i baked for a friend at work recently, the girls LOVE the sparkly glitter we used on it, bought at the xmas CL fair, its so pretty, you should all go out and buy some, it makes fairy cakes and sponges alike just sparkle!

This is a morning view ive been enjoing for a couple of weeks.....you know how nice it is when you get up before anyone else ? Well ive got six feeders on the tree outside the kitchen window now and i adore watching the blue tits shadows through the blind as they flit about their morning business. Annoyingly my fairy lights around the window have all stopped working this week, well, they were up and switched on non stop for a whole 2.5 years so i cant complain, must get some more though as i miss the delicate light that they cast in the kitchen of an evening when its dark outside....
OOh, i almost forgot, we grew fodder beet last year, a root crop for feeding animals, and we have some lambing ewes on the field at the moment which the girls and i have been checking on, they were a little chilly on this day, but generally they love it!

......This is little Bambi(Ruby) admiring this beauty, bought from morrisons,

Today she has a large blue unicorn plaster on her forehead due to falling over on a wooden bridge and hitting her head on a rock, its quite swollen with a hole! Poor baby, she was in my mums care so i blame her! We had some quality time together as school finished on tuesday.

Her sister has gone off to the cinema with her best friend. An afternoon at the local pool for us, she now snorning on the sofa next to me and im getting quite into the episode of Merlin which i put on for her to watch!
She picked me some of these, which have sprung up in my lawn! Grr...

And have you had many of these in your patch? Bumbleees we call them, dopey bumble bees. They seem to be just waking from their slumber and are not quite with it yet!

Im not the only one enjoying the sunshine....
Look at the buds on my apple tree-ooh i cant wait for that beautiful blossom this year. Im going to plant a wildflower patch just behing it, in a half moon around the playhouse, exciting stuff.

I dont think i showed you much of the playhouse last year. Mr P built it for the little ladies and i just love it, its a real feature of my garden, I especially like the heart cut out in the door, This year im going to do lots to it. Pots on the veranda, bunting, comfy furniture and even carpet, so watch this space-and nag me it i dont do it!

Primroses...simple, uplifting...

This was the front border a week or two ago, as i said before , its really coming to life now. Looking at the photos of it from last year i cant wait for it to come into bloom!

Want to know something else getting us all excited here at woodington? Well, its going on in this shed...
This is my lovely lady who decided she was broody, so, eventhough its a little early on in the season, ive let her sit on her eggs and she's been a fantastic mum so far, hardly leaving them. Can you all keep your fingers crossed for us that we have some fluffy little chick a dees in time for easter?!
Oh its been a busy month, gardening, training, and yet another birthday! Bambi was 5, here she is her usual eclectic self, wellies and a ballerina skirt, contemplating picking one of mummies daffs'. She asked me today whether they are wild flowers, then proceeded to tell me that if they are its against the law to pick them. Smart girl, although i dont think they'd throw hew in jail-shes talk them all to sleep!
My favourite of her bday cards...By belle and boo, find more of their enchanting work HERE.

And last but not least, here's the beautiful Hermione, who is sleeping wherever she sees fit right now, she is very pregnant and the girls and i are so looking forward to having kittens around the house again(shhh, dont tell Mr P-he doesnt know yet)....Our secret?
Anyway, thats basically it from me as the other little madam should be back shortly having fully learnt how to train a dragon should she ever feel the need.

Im thinking of you all, even if ive not managed to stop by and see you, you can always check my daily whitterings on good ole facebook!

(An especially big hellloooo to my new followers!)

Lots of love Kirsty xxx

A little love affair

I have to tell you about my youngest little lady, Ruby(or roo, rhubard, bea, milly moo), you see, she has this little obsession, it started when she was a tiny baby, and has continued with her....Blankie....
How the above photo was achieved, i have no idea, blankie(or colourdie as this one is called)rarely, if ever, leaves her side, she also sucks the 2 middle fingers of her left hand, so the first photo is how you'll see her most of the time. Over the last four years shes had many blankies, each one lovingly crocheted by one of her nannas, ive also bought them whenever ive spotted them at WI Sales, boot sales, and in charity shops, we have to have back up blankies in case of accidental loss, so we've amassed quite a collection, these are just a few, we have another laundry bag on the back of their bedroom door stuffed full of them, big ones small ones, we could open our own shop!...

Whenever the girls go to Nanny Marinas, they head straight for her knitting bag down the side of the sofa, and nab the ones shes started, i believe shes been trying to make knew ones for her carravan holiday this summer, but somehow the girls persuade her to cast off there and then so they can take them home to add to the collection!

Unfortunately most of the ones she makes are usually, shall we say, not to my taste, but they're fine blankets for the dollies!...here are the latest two they nabbed last weekend...

....Colourdie goes everywhere with her, pre-school, tesco, IKEA!

In case you were wondering, Poppy's not immune to a little 'blankie love', oh no, she has this stinky specimen at bed times she loves it....


And this one was a favourite for a long time....

I do have a dilemma approacing, Roo and i have agreed that as from her 4th birthday this year, she will leave blankie at home, in preparation for big school later in the year, but someohow i worry shes not going to be my baby without it...sad i know....so, March 25th 2009 can take as long as it like to roll around.....