A Life in the Making

  Nothing has surprised me more about being a mother of two children than the love Ellis has for his baby sister. From the minute she was born, he has done nothing but dote upon her.  She is the first thing he asks for in the morning and the only required kiss at night. The other day, we were at...

Step into my house at 10am, and you will see a picture of domestic bliss.  The house will be reasonably tidy.  My children will be laughing and playing.  I will be the world's best mother.  There might even be a baked good for your consumption. Step into the same scene at 4 in the afternoon and...

For Day 4 of Creativity Boot Camp, our word was 'heavy metal'. We were also asked to take our cameras out and look for inspiration in our outside world. As I don't drive, my path takes me along the same long road over the bridge and through the leafy road along the river. Walking everywhere, ...

It seems that the days are just flying by in that new baby haze of busyness.  We wake up and then woosh, its bedtime. But of course, its not all new baby centred...we are getting back into the groove of being ourselves, not just Georgia's mother, brother and father. Ellis has a new obsession wit...

Well, yes...obviously she is ridiculously cute, but I did mean the hat.Its the Aviatrix (rav link). I made a huge number of modifications because the first one I made was far too big...and it fell off on a bus. I'll put all of the details on ravelry, but in short its knitted in a 4 ply cashmere ...

Over the last few weeks, I have felt quite lost.  The best way to describe it is as if there is a part of me that I have misplaced and just can't quite remember where I put it down.  In fact, the whole last year seems like a bit of a blur that I am just waking up out of.  It would be safe to sa...