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February Fun!

15 February 2015 by Naomi 1 Comment

Historically, we have never really celebrated Valentine’s day in our house. I decorate because I really need no excuse to crochet cute hearts and make our mantel prettier. That said, this year we have celebrated a little more – trying make the most of any romantic occasion before the imminent arrival of our baby boy! (10 weeks to go!!!)

This years crochet contribution to my February mantel has been the jar of little hearts on sticks, complete with jar cosy. I saw some similar hearts on pinterest (of course!) and loved them. I found a little heart pattern, via ravelry I expect but to my shame I can not now remember, popped them on bamboo skewers and created my own version. The jar cosy I made up as I went along and it turned out rather well I thought 🙂

Oh and do you like my sweet little card from the lovely hubby?! <3

We were incredibly grateful yesterday to let my mum look after Emma for the afternoon. Emma had the best time, playing, baking cookies, feeding ducks, visiting other family members and generally being spoiled rotten I’m sure. While this was happening Vince and I got to have a whole afternoon date!

We chose to do something we both love… which is doing not a great deal at all! We chose a little town neither of us really know and had a good wander around, exploring and trying different cafe’s and coffee shops. More importantly we got to talk without being interrupted or distracted or too tired to concentrate, we got to walk arm in arm instead of wrangling a toddler and generally we got to enjoy just being husband and wife. Child free time doesn’t happen all that often for us, so when it does it is treasured.

As a bonus, the town market had a beautiful fresh flower stall full of tulips, we had the tastiest hot chocolate I have had in years, possibly ever (now I want another!), and had tea and cake from pretty china. The random event of the day was looking up from the above cup of tea and seeing Bob Geldof sitting at the table opposite, ha!

This afternoon this gorgeous girl and I spent time doing valentine’s inspired arts and crafts. For a little girl who spends 50% of her time thinking about dinosaurs and cars she really let her girly side fly today 🙂 Her precision was pretty impressive today and I love watching her different skills developing. Watching her grow brings so much joy to my life <3

Oh, and just look at that smile. I know I’m her totally biased mum but we have such a beautiful little girl.

I hope you have all had a happy weekend lovely readers. <3

Fresh Air & Mud!

10 January 2015 by Naomi 2 Comments

Today was a rare day of truly no plans, no errands to run, no chores (that were being acknowledged…), a little play date first thing but it was just the 3 of us (plus bump of course!) by 10.30am.

The weather was grim this morning and we were all tired after a night of being disturbed by the howling winds, so we settled down on one sofa for some Disney movies and a cosy day at home.

By lunch time the rain had stopped and I needed to get out of the house for some fresh air and (gentle 😉 ) exercise. We got dressed up ready to take on the wind and chill, and after we had waited out a major tantrum over suitable attire from the little Miss, we headed to the Fire Hills. I’m pretty sure Emma being 3 now is harder work for us all than being 2 ever was, it is a… dramatic age!

The walk was much needed and appreciated by all I think. Wonderful views across to Dungeness, lots of friendly people walking their dogs, plenty of mud and puddles for little Miss and an opportunity to walk linking arms with my husband. It has been a while since we have all walked anywhere leisurely enough or safe enough for Emma to just run freely ahead. I have missed walking and talking with Vince in that relaxed, not-at-home way that is just different somehow. I know it is going to be more important than ever to savour those moments when this baby boy of ours is born. We have an extremely blessed and happy marriage but I know it will take prayer and work from both of us to keep it that way, I hope never to be complacent about our relationship.

(I feel I should mention she did have her hair back and earwarmers but took it all off… hence the cavegirl hairdo!)

Whilst walking the hills I became slightly obsessed with sky and the clouds as the sun started to set… and consequently took too many photos. But it was so gorgeous, I just love horizon landscapes and skyscapes where we live…. and in general!

Ahhh that walk made me feel just so much better and less tired than I had before we went. Refreshed and invigorated, as much as I can be at 24 weeks at any rate… walking in the countryside is definitely one of my ‘happy places’!

What do you most like to do when you get that cooped up feeling? I’d love you to share it with us here 🙂

New Year Blog Post Round-Up 2014

31 December 2014 by Naomi 2 Comments

Last year I did a summary of posts and photos throughout the year and I thought I would do another to close this year 🙂

It means taking the first few lines of the first blog post for each month and a photo for the month So here is Lovely Little Life’s 2014!

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JANUARY

This year I am not making new year resolutions as such… I have found that ‘New Year Resolutions’ tend to have a kind of stigma of being unattainable or quickly forgotten about or otherwise broken long before the years end.

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FEBRUARY

Well, we are pretty much one week into February (already?!) and thankfully I think we are all feeling much better for it in our neck of the woods.

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MARCH

I can’t believe that it is the 1st of March already!

Happily, February did end on a good week for us and today was apparently the first day of Spring in the meteorological calendar. That is some very welcome news!

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APRIL

Wasn’t Tuesday just gorgeous in the south east? We popped into town for a few errands and found ourselves whiling away the hours on the seafront. Bliss.

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MAY

It has been one of those weeks where I feel like we haven’t really been doing much of anything and yet at the same time I’ve felt ridiculously busy.

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JUNE

A little while ago I came across a tutorial for a little dress with a crochet yoke on Mon Petit Violon. I finally got around to making a similar dress for Emma!

I used the original dress idea as inspiration but tweaked it here and there to suit and fit Emma.

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JULY

Happy Monday!

I’m back again to link up with Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. As I have managed to go a week without blogging again… One of these days I’ll get myself organised into a good routine of posting!

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AUGUST

Happy moments… quite often involve hooky time for me and not as often as I would like include home making.

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SEPTEMBER

Hello lovelies, I haven’t been around too much lately have I?

I just haven’t had quite as much time on my hands recently and as usual my poor blog is the first thing to slide (*ahem* if you don’t count certain aspects of housework!).

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OCTOBER

We are so excited to announce that we are expecting a new little addition to our family! It is a huge blessing that has truly been prayed for and I am so thankful for this new little life.

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NOVEMBER

Goodness, where is this year disappearing off to?! A fortnight ago I shared our wonderful news and explained why hadn’t been around so much, but also declared I was getting back to normal and should be around a bit more….

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DECEMBER

So today is apparently the official first day of winter… and the start of Christmas judging by the number of fully decorated trees and houses in my social media feeds!

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I have to say pulling this together was great fun, I don’t spend enough time going back to look at past blog posts and it is so lovely to remember and see all the wonderful memories we have made together over the last year. I was seriously considering whether I was going to keep this blog going next year but this little exercise has renewed some of my passion for it!

2015 is going to be an exciting year in our Lovely Little Life, some big adventures to embark on and of course the biggest adventure coming our way in April. I can’t wait!

Happy New Year lovely readers! Wishing you all the best things for coming year!

February Fun!

Fresh Air & Mud!

New Year Blog Post Round-Up 2014

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