my list ticked....

so today has been a busy day filled with list ticking....

i met my mother in-law for a catch up, which was ace been a while since we've spent so much time together.... i am a lucky lady to have a lovely mother in-law, as so many people have bother's with theirs mine's is very thoughtful and blunt when required.... what more could i ask for :))

speaking of the lovely jean..... she bought me this a few week's ago, like i said a thoughtful woman, i live in northern Ireland and my dad is in Scotland so she bought me this so i have something to "visit" if you like. and it hit's the nail on the head something i would never have bought myself.... she understands i feel i have no stone or plaque to go to so she said do you like it? you could light a candle..... and you know what i will it now lives on my kitchen window sill and i see it everyday.

No.2 on my list was posting this to the lovely Kath who is my swap partner for Tilly's chic vintage swap ..... so looking forward to this one as i love a good rummage through the second hand shop's

and posting this for a wee fund raiser.... so sorry it's so late if your reading ... big cheesy forgive me smile is on my face right now!!!

No.3 was to try get organized for Finn's 3rd birthday on the 12th... i got all the party stuff required so..... just hand made goodies to make now
1. this camera strap
2. a birthday bunting like this maybe
3. a pencil roll maybe like this
4. and lastly a wee handy man belt maybe like this

No.4 was the fixing of trouser's that we're more than over due a make over of sort's!!!

all in all i got a good lot done today..... the boy's were tuckered out!!! this is a single buggy but finn just could not stay awake so he shared frazer's buggy till i got to the bus stop then i took him out, and waited for the bus was lovely hugging him whilst he had his wee nap i got to give him kisses without him wiping then off!!

on the way to the bus stop i passed these guy's they were fab i do love live music but I'm a sucker for good drum's and these guys had them!!!!

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it's ending tonight!!!!

hey there peep's
so i am about to share with you the trials and tribulation's i am having with regard's to my youngest son frazer..... to most people this may not seem like such a biggy but for me ...... i have to say that i am at the end of my tether.....

this lovely little menace is my wee Frazer..... he is 18month's old
and i am still breast feeding him and had planned to stop the feeding at 13month's

the same as his older brother Finn...

well folk's it turns out that Frazer is just so not up for that, every time i get near some kind of weaning, he catches a bug or teeth come through... otherwise just something comes up, i have decided that tonight is the night. i will be doing the controlled crying technique some may frown some may agree but for me i think i just have to get this done (and it seemed to work fine with Finn) and with there being 2 kid's i have to get it done asap as i want to try get back to some kind of normal pretty quick.... so this will be hard on Frazer but hard on everyone else too.....

i hope not to gurn to much over the next few day's..... and more realistically week's please do bear with me and if you fancy a leaving a happifying comment please do.... dare i say i feel that i may be in need of them !!!!!

xxx

our happy sunday

just a a bit of fore warning peep's this is a epic post!!!!!

so it was a warm day and i really wanted to get some stone's to paint for the back yard, we all got in the car and went for a wee drive....

to get to the beaches we needed to go over craigavon bridge this is where "JAMES" lives aka the foyle train museum
Finn adores this place, he is a avid Thomas the tank engine fan

and off he goes, who knew that a rusty rail track could be such endless fun we played train's here for quite some time i thinki must have looked like a crazy person to people going by!!!!
we then go back in the car and headed inch island

now my pic's do inch island no favors here but i have to say that is is on of my fav spot's in Northern Ireland.... it really s oh so beautiful and tranquil so small quaint!!!!

and this is frazer's first time this summer at a beach Finn was asleep so he had me all to himself!!! he defo enjoyed a good wander around too very much the investigator!!! although at 17 months i so wish he had a little more fear!!!!!

after some stone choosing!!!! we all got back in the car and went to inishowen beach, we went to the quite bit it's flatter really don't know why people don't come here but hey I'm not gonna knock it!!!! keep away!!!! lol

Finn had woke by this point and was so happy to have woke up at a beach..... with puddle's no less!!!

the view's at this beach are outstanding.... the rotten pier, the boat's the sand with the wood's behind it!!!! i really do find this oh so very picturesque..... a real photographer's gold mine!!!!!

i have a thing for photo's with my boy's holding my hand.... it just make's me smile and my belly flip!!!! thought i would share this one
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now this is a first for both boy's to be oh so near the water.... can you see Finn with his protecting hand...... all i could hear Finn say was "careful fwee careful fwee" fwee is what finn call's Frazer..... soooo cute!!!

i took a wee nip in to the water i love the sand in my toes and it's the best exfoliater!!!

so as our lovely walk draws to a close, still no crab has been found much to my disappointment as mark had found a live one earlier...a very small one and put it in his shirt pocket for Finn too see... somehow it escaped!!!!
but alas a crab was found finn was so feckin excited made it worth the search!!!!

so off we went to the car and just as if we had planned it i was putting frazer into his car seat and the sky opened up on my back!!!! i was soaked..... well my bum was.... i am so happy we got to have our day.... someone was looking out for us that's for sure!!!

so after my day of happy boy's, happy family, stone collecting, photo taking, sunshine & rain!!!!! i even managed to squeeze in a coffee and some lovely crochet...... all i had to do is bribe the boy's with a pop!!!! and all this whilst sunday dinner was being cooked ..... yes i had a happy sunday and am oh so very thankfull for what i have which is family and health

i hope you all have fab thing's planed for your weekend.... i don't think i can top this one but if i come close i'm more than happy

xxx

sunday citar 23/05/10

To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?

-- Katherine Graham

more word's......


xxx

our lovely find.....

so one day last week me and the boy's went for a wander around where we live i came upon a path that i had never followed, we had to get Frazer off to sleep so off we went.....

on the way back home i started to take pics as Frazer had gone to sleep, i seen this an i feel it may become a inspirational pic.... may be on my board soon enough!!!!

although it's not summer...... spring has sprung, look at that view :)))))

we found our first ladybird.... and didn't squash it!!!

Finn done a lot of investigating.....

and a lot of smiling......

there were bird's.....

more flowers.....

........makka pakka's stone's!!!!

and every once and a while Finn shouted
amee hand.....
(amee = mummy)

.......and hand in hand we all strolled along and and whilst i looked at a sleeping Frazer....

...... and his tiny little hand..... it won't be long till he's asking for my hand........ all the tears and tantrum's of day's gone by disappear and just linger in my lovely little moment......
i love my boy's so very much they give me purpose a reason.....
these are moment's i shall treasure...

i love you Finn & Frazer
xxx

my ever growing book marks......

so today i am trying to cull some of my MANY bookmarks.....
basically i can't it's to hard they are interesting and 1 day i will get to do some of the many tutorials that i have ear marked.....
so here's a peek at some of the things that have grabbed my attention.....

• spoonflower - a fellow blogger brought this to my attention.... you design your own fabric!!!
• make your own baby stuff - a small variety of stuff easy to do from food to bumpers
• lovely little sweet peas tutorial - on the go art satchel
  
• misty book - a really cute collection of knitting patterns
• stitch magazine - 37 sewing projects for spring
• clutterpunk - thread sketching on fabric
• crochet - free patterns & tutorials
  
• knitting - free patterns & tutorials
• tipnut - 1000's of tips & project's from garden-sewing
• monkeyroom - fab fab pin cushion
• coatsandclark - crochet & knitting
• adventures in dressmaking - jeans mending tutorial, she also has a shirt 2 skirt tutorial
  
• craftzine - transforming traditional crafts
  
• bighugelabs - helping you do fab things with your photos
• pink penguin - fab blog with fab tutorials & flickr too
• whimsyloft - lovely tutorial, sock owl
• coloured buttons - baby in pouch very cute
• shabbyblogs - spice up your blog with these templates
• save hand made US -every little helps
• great inspirational quotes - fab site
• whip up - if your looking for crafty stuff this is a good start
• craftgossip - more crafty stuff
• one pretty thing - site of how 2's

hope you enjoy them as much as i do and you find some new ones in there too :))))


xxx

sunday fun :)

well it was another weekend in banana's :)

the Frazer has lost the fear of the bridge!!

Finn still loves the ball pit!

we discovered the racing games too Finn really did enjoy this too
(I'll regret it as he'll want on every time now)

Frazer was tuckered out after all that fun!!!

this is also a first i decided that this could be my way of utilizing the baby bath and made for some good fun on a especially rainy day as we had to stay indoors!!!

xxx

breif update.....

so i reckon the feeding is going oh so well Frazer get's just 1 feed all day & night... other than a couple of day's ago he was up from say 11.30pn-4-am crying, no breast feeding was going to help turns out it's the bloody teeth again...... poor wee mite i am hoping that this has settled and he is back on track. i have to say that i am very much enjoying the night time feed's again, our snuggles huh there is a pang of he's only a wee baby yet in my head but i reckon I've done my bit now and will continue on with my plan.....
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breastfeeing update day 7

hey there so i felt another update was warranted Frazer has been sleeping through from 8pm-8.30pm till 6am-8.30am..... wooooohoooo so the plan is working all i had to do was stay strong & keep the end goal in sight

i think the wee guy seems oh so much happier during the day too.... even with the 4 teeth coming through!!!

have a good Saturday peeps :)

day 5 breastfeeding update....

so as i have said before this is more for my sanity than yours but yes her i go again!!!!! we made a a major break through yesterday.... Frazer DID NOT ASK FOR ANY MILK YESTERDAY.....
soooooo happy........ BUT there is always a but......

he went to bed at 8pm ish.... then slept till 5.55am, he woke the whole house Finn included.... for a wee guy he sure has a ample set of lung's!!! so Finn went into my bed i went to Frazer and yes i fed him some people may think I'm being to hard but it's been sooooo long the feeding..... anyways he never went back to sleep we came down stairs calpol administered as he has 2 eye teeth coming through and we watched some Thomas the tank engine played with our wooded block's by 8am this happened......

he passed out in my much loved silvercross buggy.... so i hope today will be as good as yesterday and i will be stronger and just come down stairs tomorrow morning and feed him up with banana and milk!!!
wish me luck.....

breastfeeing update!!!!!!

this is more for my sanity than yours I'm sure but it's a process i feel is helping so bear with me!!!!i am on day 4 night 3 of the trying to end his habit of a life time ...... day's seem to be going OK he is confused but not rolling on the floor crying for milk much to my happiness :0]
as for the night they are more hard work i am still aiming and succeeding in the 1 feed a day, that being his night time feed where the bad habit lies, he feed's to sleep which i am now enjoying again as when i was feeding through the day and night i was finding it more of a chore. so he is only getting that 1 feed then i am controlled crying my wee man i see cringes all around me right now but i (& you) must try to remember he is 15 months and no longer need's to feed 3 times during the night..... saying this night 1 he slept through, night 2 was way more hard work....a fluke i called it in my last blog entry!!!!! and a fluke it was he woke no less than 4 times but only after being re settled briefly ha went back to sleep after say 30 mins, i do truly feel bad that i am "doing this on my wee boy Frazer" but i do feel that i am making more restful sleeping routines for us both.... as for last night being night 3 he once again slept though..... from 8pm till 8.30am...... wow i say. i know that this was due to sheer exhaustion from the night before but i have my fingers crossed I'm getting somewhere.


children are a handful sometimes, a heartfull all the time.......
-author unknown

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trying to end his habbit of a life time.....

firstly sorry if the picture is not to your taste...
my wee boy Frazer is now 15 month's old now.... feeding him has been the best start in life i can give him & the bonding experience can be rivaled by no other experience in my life... i have LOVED most of the experience. i fed Finn my first boy till he was 13 months old.... i was also 7 months pregnant with Frazer by this point...... i am wrestling with the "am i being selfish" as much as i am aware motherhood comes with all the unconditional love you could you can handle!!! it also comes with GUILT i found this out early and am learning fast that it will be here as long as the unconditional love!!! FOREVER!!!!!


so where am i now... i now sort of feel that he is OK to not be feeding now as he only NEEDS my milk till he is 12 months old, although they would like us to feed till they are 2 years old i have been feeding for 27 months with a 2 month break..... i also feel that i will always put my children first but he is now upping the ante he & Finn had a bug passing it too and fro for 5 weeks then the teething was the problem so i did have him to 1 feed a day his bedtime "SNUGGLES" we called them now up until yesterday he was feeding 3-4 times a day and i was in the spare bed in his room by anywhere between 1am - 3am every night i spent the rest of the night there with him sleeping in the bed with me and feeding on and off all night :( much to my dis-spare....
so yesterday i decided enough is enough Frazer will still love me even if i cut the feeding down (in the vain hope that he will eventually stop!!)so foot down i have put plasters on my nipples yes plasters!!!! as when i just say no he throws himself on the floor and screaming and i feel bad enough!!! ( i still have a ear infection :(... ) so now there is less screaming maybe some confusion but he only fed once yesterday.... and he woke at 2.30am last night.. i went and settled him then he was asleep by 2.45am.... i seriously believe it was a fluke but i have my fingers crossed...
updates will follow!!!! xx

rainy day painting fun

me and the boy's got out the paint's i bought recently from the early learning center there was 20% off too.... i love a bargain as i may have already said!!!!!

Finn my older boy was more into the the painting than his brother.......

Frazer who was more into eating it!!!!!!

Finn also had much fun cleaning up much to my surprise!!!!!!



i also bought a set of 8 canvases from Argos recently which with the paints made for a fun rainy day..... that made forever memories.
xxx

handmadehappiness

Well it's taken a while but order is now revealing it's self in my world, i now have a floor in my sewing room and a place for nearly everything! turns out i didn't need all those boxes.... but I'm sure I'll find something to put in them!!
I have a few project's that i must get finished before i can start on the real fun stuff... designing all manner of thing's clothes bears and gift's for friends.... i have a vague portfolio that i hope to get listed up here in the next few days.
with all this in mind i have to timetable my sewing but..... i think first thing's first lets get the wee man being Frazer my youngest of 1yr into a bed time routine, wean him completely breast feeding till 13 months should be quite enough (it was enough for his older brother Finn GROAN) it was going oh so well then the teeth started!!!!! then the bug came!!!!! ah motherhood...... i wouldn't change it for the world though!!
Basically this blog will be the witterings of a 29yr old mum with 2 kid's trying to maintain sanity through her attempts at sewing and running her household.... x