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This December…

30 December 2014 by Naomi Leave a Comment

…has been special.

It was our last as a family of three and Emma’s last birthday and christmas as an only child! There will be a little baby brother crawling around our house this time next year 🙂
It was also special as we hosted Christmas for the first time instead of going it alone or visiting with others. We invited my wonderful Nan to come and stay with us a few days and it was just lovely having her here!

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This December has felt busy.

I’m not really sure if we have been more busy than previous years or if it is just pregnancy tiredness making me feel that way. My best guess is that both are true. But I am so grateful to have been busy with fun, family and friends, and I am of course grateful for the little life I am growing!! Still, looking forward to a slightly slower pace in the New Year.

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This December has been fast.

I mean really fast. I think this also contributes to that busy feeling, one minute I was in November, then it was Emma’s birthday, then it was Christmas and now it is practically 2015 and I feel like I just blinked it by. A blur I tell you.

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This December has been creative.

Despite this poor little blog having so little to show for it, I have been crocheting away this month. Although I have been sticking to small, quick projects of my own choosing (and have for the time being stopped all commission work) my inspiration/motivation is back! I will be taking some *proper* photos of my pieces in the new year and promise to share them here… at the moment I scarcely remember to whip my phone out before I’ve given the item away!

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This December has been traditional.

On that same note, I have not taken more than a handful of photos this month despite all of the big occasions. My hands are usually too preoccupied with something else to manage a camera into the mix and I was a little sad about this in a way. But then I looked back to this date last year and found this post about our festivities in 2013… and I was strangely pleased with how familiar it all looked and sounded. I love that our Christmas and way of celebrating it is already becoming full of our own lovely little family traditions. (It has also reminded me of what I really liked about blogging in the first place – a place of memories to look back on!)

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I hope you have all had a lovely month and enjoyed your Christmas celebrations! I will pop back in tomorrow for an end of year blog post round up of some sort 🙂

Naomi x2

 

Posted in: Lovely Little Crochet, Lovely Little Family, Lovely Little Home Tagged: Christmas, crochet, December, family, happy things, outdoors, winter

Goodbye Autumn…

1 December 2014 by Naomi Leave a Comment

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!

I am almost ready to welcome the Christmas season into our home and by the coming weekend I am sure we will be fully decked too. But for now I am still enjoying my cosy autumn colours, so here are some of my favourite photos I had meant to share a few weeks ago…

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::: One of my favourite garden birds… that I have to look for elsewhere as our little garden is over run by neighbourhood cats!

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::: The first fire of the season <3

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::: My cosy autumn themed mantelpiece <3 Complete with crochet pumpkins, toadstools, leaves and a pom pom garland.

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::: A new scripture print went up for autumn too – probably my favourite verse, Jeremiah 29v11.

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::: I even managed a little crochet, a chunky green cowl for myself in King Cole Gypsy.

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::: Also a little slouchy pompom hat for Emma, made using a double strand of Stylecraft Special DK. <3

Yay for happy, cosy, autumn days!

Ok, I think I’m about ready to embrace Christmas now! I’m off to crochet some little things for a christmas fair at our church this weekend 🙂 I’ll try and share them later this week!

Have a wonderful first week of advent!

Naomi x2

Posted in: Faith, Lovely Little Crochet, Lovely Little Family, Lovely Little Home Tagged: autumn, cowl, crochet, December, Emma, faith, happy things, hat, Jeremiah, nature, November, outdoors, scripture, yarn

This week…

8 November 2014 by Naomi 3 Comments

… has been sooo much better! I mean really I can hardly begin to say how much better this week has been… for all of us I hope!

So here some highlights of our first week in November 🙂 (Week 15 of pregnancy if you’re counting 😉 )

(I’m afraid once again these are all phone camera snaps… it’s just easier at the moment!)

We took an early evening trip out at the beginning of the week to Bedgebury Pinetum, it was so peaceful and beautiful. It was also so we could take a stroll through the deep, dark wood…

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wpid-imag0610.jpg…and look what we found! Emma was so excited… convincing her to say goodbye was an interesting manoeuvre! (If you have no idea who the above character is, you must check out this book!)

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We explored local places that we had still never been too. This is our local museum & art gallery, it is small but an interesting visit full of all sorts of things and even Emma loved it. Admittedly this was largely helped by the little dinosaur exhibit as she is having a bit of a dino phase?!

We have also had shopping trips out to Ashford, got ourselves organised financially ready for December, enjoyed the restart of my bible study group after the half term, finally started reading a new book, and despite starting yesterday with an absolute horror of a headache it ended with our yarn lovers group meeting at our house which was always guaranteed to perk me up!!!

Today has been a quieter day but we have succeeded in getting out of the house as that has been the theme of the week – not being house-bound! Emma and I decided to take a walk and braved the elements to head to the park… Honestly our local play park should be entered for some sort of award for being the UK’s most windswept, I am sure it would win.

wpid-img-20141108-wa0000.jpegYou wouldn’t believe how hard those gulls were trying to fly off and getting absolutely nowhere. Also that little 2 year old up there is super cute (most of the time!) and will be 3 in less than six weeks. How can that possibly be right?!

Dear readers, I hope you have been able to find the positives in your week too! Enjoy the rest of your weekend 🙂

Naomi x2

 

 

 

Posted in: Lovely Little Family, Things We Do Tagged: autumn, Bedgebury Pinetum, Emma, family, gruffalo, happy things, museums, nature, November, outdoors, parks, walks, wind
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