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Dick Bruna's Caleb's Ride on Noah's Ark.

What a wonderful (big) book!

Not the 'traditional' version of Noah's Ark most of us know, Dick Bruna has written a lovely story for children based on the original story of Noah's Ark.

The book is more of a A4 size, and has really lovely big illustrations in it!

Avaliable from Amazon for as little as £1.69 used.

Baby, it's cold outside .... ( and Inside!)

I love winter, but I do not like a baby who feels the cold and ends up with cold toes. ( Insert sad face here)

So, why not treat your little one to some wintery goodness? I especially need the quilt and the Gingerbread cloth nappy. (We only use cloth in our house. It's lovely for the planet and means I get to introduce even more colour into our son's wardrobe, if you've not ever used cloth it's never to late. )

1) Ferm Living Quilt
2 & 3) Tots Bots Gingerbread and Robin Print Cloth Nappies
4) Santa PJ's by John Lewis
5) Baby Sleeping Bag from Olive and Moss

starting to sound like The Smiths

I don't know if you find this problem reoccurring in your life, but.... since I became a Mother I can NEVER find more than 2 outfits a season what I would, a) like enough to buy, or b) look good in.

( I know that 'b' won't last forever , but right now it's there poking me in the face each time I try and look for things)

I also have the issue right now of 'nursing clothes' as my son is only 7 months old.

However, when it comes to children's clothing, or things for the home I find so many it's hard to choose between them.

Above from Loveit Love it Love it.
Do you have any stores you can recommend? Where do you shop for clothing for yourself? ( I imagine you're all going to come back and tell me that you make all your clothes or you get them from Charity shops, where everyone but me seems to get amazing things. ( Yes I'm talking to you Miss Lester! )

So, share any stores where I can get some bits from. I seem to live in 3 different capsule outfits.

Also I thought I'd share.

70% and 50% off Orla Kiely Bedlinen

Christmas Vintage Gift Wrap Ideas.

1, 2 & 3 - Orla Kiely Gift Wrap avaliable at John Lewis

4 - It's a decoration, but I'd use it as a Gift Tag/ gift wrap decoration. From Etsy
5- Child's gift bag - At Paperchase

6- Vintage Inspired Christmas Stocking From Jane Foster

7 - Scandinavian Gift Wrap from Ikea

I'm back Folks!

Sorry for my AWOL behaviour ! I've been doing emergency home repairs . To balance it out ( the boring stuff I mean) I bought new Orla kiely bed linen for the bedrooms !

Colourful Christmas

Alice Apple shop here

Paperchase shop online here

Habitat shop online here

Do you have fifteen minutes to spare, umm I mean waste?

I love a store called Hema, which is like IKEA but more colourful and doesn't do much furniture.

Even though I've never been there in real life, sometimes if I need inspiration, or I'm just bored ( which i never have time for these days I've just realised as I'm typing this... is that a good thing? - I think so! ) I venture onto Hema - ( click to see their award winning animated home page! )

Click here if you want to view their products... they are oh so colourful,

They don't ship to the UK, so it's pointless that I go online to look at it... and I can't even understand the language so I randomly guess what the words mean.. I would LOVE it if Hema started doing international shipping....

It's so colourful, and inexpensive from what I see, in England if you were to find things like this in a shop they'd rip you off like nobody's business!

(Those cakes above look immense! )

Do you have any guilty pleasures aka websites that you just can't help your self going onto, even if it frustrates you that they don't ship to the UK or where ever you live? Mr Green has promised me that in the near future we will go to Amsterdam so i can visit Hema & the Miffy Huis.

I wonder if I could fit this children's play supermarket trolley into my suitcase if we go? It's only 15,00Euro! Which is about £12.90.

Holidays are coming !

Am I the only girl around here who gets stupidly, ridiculously , over the top excited about Christmas here in blog land ?

What have you got planned for the holiday. Christmas season within your family , home decor, or party planning ?

Here in our home we have a decoration already up , it's huge !

Tk maxx £14.99

The Sailor By Dick Bruna

Just a quick share of these pictures, I love this book!

how do you do it all?

I question myself, everyday If I am giving the things in my life the right amount of time.

Children, my relationship, work, and time to just 'be' are the things that I worry about most.
When I get into bed at night, I always have a zillion things racing through my head, new fabric designs, new ideas for my business, things I wish I'd made time to do. Things I need to do tomorrow.....

I had a lovely (rare) catch up with my school Art teacher today for coffee, who I hadn't seen for many years, he said that he retired early as there is so much he wants to do in life.

I feel the same way, and I am only starting out!

I think that when your a creative person, you find it especially hard to 'switch off', or am I the only one who feels this way?

That said, we've made a new workspace this afternoon in our bedroom so that I can work late at night and still be near enough to quickly get to our son at night.

So please, tell me, how do you manage to get everything done?