A jaunt to Haarlem

Haarlem
It was misting rain, of the sort that is so light you barely feel it, but you get quite sopping, but it was such a picturesque place. We went to see some friends rather than for sight-seeing, which is just as well given the weather. I can see us returning for an afternoon sometime (when it's sunny), as it's only about 20 minutes by train from Amsterdam.


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Half-birthday Headband

Headband Flower

We're going to a little half-birthday celebration tomorrow for another wee lass, so I wanted to take along a small prezzie. The idea for making a headband occurred to me and I found a simple pattern on Ravelry. I love how fast crochet whips together; I spent at most an hour making this (and that includes ripping part of the flower out when I realised that I had made a silly mistake). I can see myself making the flower again for other purposes too. It does seem rather large around, but I stuck with the 6-9 month size because better too big than too small.

For more details, see the project on ravelry.


Headband

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Thrifting treasure: silk scarf

silk scarf

I went thrifting the other day and found a silk scarf for 1.50€!

I've used it as a nice,lightweight nursing cover-up on a picnic but I originally bought it with the idea of using it as a headband scarf. I've seen some cute ideas on the web but whenever I try these styles, the scarf just wants to slide back and ends up falling off eventually. Are secret bobbypins involved in making these looks work? If you know the secret, please share it. I frequently have rather messy "mom-hair", quickly put in a ponytail, and I'd love to distract from it with a pretty scarf!

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Spring Cloud Stripes

Stripes in Progress

A quick in-progress photo of the Spring Cloud blanket. I snapped this with my smartphone camera, so the colours aren't very accurate, but you can see I'm a few more stripes along now (compare to earlier). Part of the recent progress is because I finally figured out how to institute morning and afternoon naps reliably! Any other first-time mamas will know what a triumph that is. Now if only we could figure out how to get more than 5 hours in a row at night...


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A new home

Out the bedroom window

Just to make our lives extra busy, we moved recently. We are now amongst boxes and partially assembled ikea furniture. The Wee Lass keeps us plenty busy on her own so I suspect the settling in phase will happen at a snail's pace. We love our new space though and the Wee Lass will even get her own wee room ... As soon as we have unpacked a bit more.

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A little update

I've been busy looking after the Wee Lass and her cute toes. But I have managed to get about 2 more stripes of her Spring Cloud blanket done since she was born. When there's something more to show on the blanket, I'll take a progress photo.

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Not an April Fool's joke ...

At the end of March, I became a Mummy to a darling little girl! I probably won't be posting here for awhile as we are busy adoring her and learning how to be parents.


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