Re-Connected

I've felt like I'm had an arm missing for the last few days!! No t'internet, didn't think I used it much these days but I obviously do.

Anyway my apparent IT genius of a husband discovered what the problem was (after blaming me for killing the internet, because I tried to wirelessly connect to his new printer cos he couldn't figure it out). And what did he do to fix it - use a different cable!!! Oooohhh IT wizz kid eh!

Not taken many pics this week, stoopidly busy at work and 'the husband' has had 'the man flu' so been busy being a good wifie and making chicken soup (with the help of heinz). So here is one from last week, the dude figured out how to stand on his wee truck it seemed. All on his own!!

What a difference a few miles make

It's weird just how obsessive we can be about the weather but I suppose it's the one universal thing we can all talk about!!

Anyway last week I decided to take my dad on a wee photography trip. There had been some snow the week before and although we had none in our wee part of the world, there was some not very far from us. So me, the dude and Granda went for a wee drive. Look at the pretty winter wonderland we discovered.




Then later last week me and the dude where out for a little walk and came across these pretty little snowdrops in the local park.


So hopefully that means that spring is on the way. Today has been utterly beautiful, lovely clear blue sky and even some warmth in the sun.

Just need to hope it continues to the weekend :)

Time for a change

I've been thinking about changing things in the house for a wee while. Well actually for quite a few months last year we were thinking about changing house but decided to hold off on that for the time being. Need to wait for the house market to pick up a bit and also see what is happening with my job.

So being the 'ooh I've got an idea' person that I can be from time to time. I've decided that if we're not moving for a while then I want to decorate....everywhere!!! The kitchen needs done, the livingroom needs something but not sure what and our bedroom needs to become more like a comfy, relaxing, sanctuary of a bedroom instead of just somewhere to sleep.

I've decided I want to start with the kitchen (little does the hubby know ha!) and I can't make up my mind to make curtains (we currently have none, only vertical blinds that I'm rapidly getting bored off) or roman blinds. Both would probably be overkill eh?

Tonight I've been surfing curtain fabric websites and found these fantastic specimens. Don't know if I would actually have them in my kitchen but some of them are so fugly they're brilliant.

A little indulgence

That's what I've had today. A little teeny, weeny bit of relaxing indulgence. Me, my little dude, my big sis and her little dude spent the afternoon at the Spring Quilt Festival in Edinburgh.

So no ironing has been done, as yet I've nothing to wear to work tomorrow, Euan's clothes are running low but hey it's not the end of the world. We spent the afternoon looking at GORG-EEE-OUS quilts and drooling over hundreds of purty fabrics so it was worth having double the amount of housework to do tomorrow than usual.

There was an exhibition of some of Patricia Archibald's quilts, I absolutely LOVE her work. From a distance you would never guess it was a quilt, most of them are like paintings. They are utterly fantastic!!



The pictures aren't brilliant, forgot my camera so had to take them with my phone so they don't really do them justics but they are beautiful.

I haven't really had time to blog much lately or really had the inclination too either. It's been 7 weeks since I went back to work and I was surprised at just how tough it was. There is so much going on at work just now that it's not a happy place. December was the issuing of the single status letters where people found out if their wages were going up or down - mine is going down, not as much as some others so I do count myself lucky, but a couple of thousand is still substantial. Then the middle of January it was announced that the whole Council is to be restructed and as a result, my department - Housing Services - is being broken up and merged with about 4 other services I think. So currently I've no idea what service I'm going to be working for, where I'll be located and ultimately what I'll be doing. So going back has been hard for a whole range of reasons. I haven't had to worry about Euan as daddy is doing a fab job looking after him but my work doesn't feel like the place it used to be sadly. So, along with being diagnosed with depression at the end of last year, the beginning of this year has given me a few difficult days to figure out how to deal with them. But I do and I'm starting to see the brighter side of things again thank goodness.

On a much cheerier note my little dude is coming on leaps and bounds. Crawling about like Speedy Gonzales, pulling himself up on any item of furniture in his way and almost walking!! Well only when holding onto his Pooh truck, but it's still walking. This is his 'Eddie Vedder' look! I can't believe he is now 9 months. We talking yesterday and it's weird, on one hand it's like 'OMG he's nine months old, how did that pass so quickly' and at the same time it feels like, 'Is he ONLY nine months?' because we can't remember him not being here. But he is best little dude in the world (ok, I'm maybe a little bit biased). He's already turning into a bit of a bookworm!!!!

This is currently the state of my craft table! What a sorry site, the quilt I attempted to make before starting work (who was I kidding ha ha ha!!) is sitting under my machine half done, but nowhere near finished. I've agreed to make thank you cards for my sister - 50 of them!!


And then I've come home today with this lovely bundle of fabric. My sister's idea, we both bought the same fabric and she's set us both a challenge to make a quilt using the same fabric to see what we come up with. Now just when will I have the time to do that!?!?! (I am looking forward to seeing what I can do though)

How not to make life easy

don't have my wifi connection for a start!! Fingers crossed it keeps working now and doesn't stop halfway through this post like it did earlier.

I have only 5 days left of maternity leave before I return to the hideous world of reality and work (horrible 4 letter word!) and not one to ever make things easy for myself I have decided that this collection of material
is going to be made into a quilt, or at the very least a quilt top by Sunday night.

Pedro foolishly said he doesn't think I'll be able to do it, now there's a challenge if ever I heard one.

Should hopefully turn out quite well as it's a straight forward design, which I can't find a link to just now, doh! Anyhoo, I've abandoned the small child in the livingroom and it's gone all quiet so better find out what he's up to, or indeed where he's gotten himself!!