handmade christmas shrooms

This year I thought I'd try my hand at some home made gifts of the crafty variety and unlike many of my other christmas ideas i may have actually started this one early enough to be in with a shot of finishing them in time for the big day.



The sewing was a little shoddy on this first effort, but hopefully some practice will sort that out, I'm really happy with the way the little mario mushrooms came out though. The super cute pattern was from the boards on Sprite Stitch and was pretty quick to do, even for a novice like me.

Powder room cats

The salon I go to has a beauty parlor upstairs which is littered with all these little porcelain cats, which is an aesthetic I heartily approve of.



Just look at those guys!

Ooops

No blogging since August, lazy, lazy.

Well it looks like any baby making plans are on a hiatus until the new year at least - thanks to my shiny new heart murmur! I got sick about a month ago now - like really vomity sick, which was all sorts of fun, any way I lying in the local A&E clinic and the Doctor is listening away to my chest and says "Your heart murmur is quite loud, isn't it?"

Cue surprised look from me.

So anyway, Doctor lady assures me that the murmur is due to the sick and that I will be all fine in a week. Accept I'm not. Gutted. The murmur is still there, wooshing away and on the advice of my GP I should wait for a cardiac assessment before getting pregnant. So we will do that, its not like waiting lists are that long right??

As a side note, if it turns out that if I do have something wrong with my heart, I cant wait to write letters to every PE teacher I ever had that said I was lazy because of my sucky beep test/cross country/team sport performances and get all guilt trippy on them about the hole in my heart being responsible for my lack of physical prowess. That will be quite sweet actually.