tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63040585649757827312024-03-20T14:27:49.015-07:00Hand Drawn Baby OnesiesA mix of crafts and motherhood and muddling along somehow.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-62319666880808170062017-02-21T01:58:00.001-08:002017-02-21T01:58:52.207-08:00Introducing Hand Drawn Bibs<div style="text-align: center;">
I know, I know, the name of the blog is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/handdrawnbabyonesies">Hand Drawn Baby Onesies</a>, but I decided to expand a little and start drawing <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HandDrawnBabyOnesies?ref=l2-shopheader-name&section_id=21099202">bibs</a> too. Here are the first few designs I've done, they all go with existing onesie designs. I love a matching outfit!</div>
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All the bandana bibs are 100% cotton and fasten with a long piece of velcro so they don't easily fall off. My son is a serial bib remover, and he hasn't managed it yet.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-85880282601884604742017-01-01T07:24:00.000-08:002017-01-01T07:24:02.187-08:00Happy New YearDo you do New Year Resolutions? I am 50/50 about them. I quite like to have a plan for the coming year, although I never go so far as to actually write it down on paper. It's more a New Year Aspiration than a Resolution. My hopes and aims for 2017 are:<br />
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I'd like to come up with some new <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/handdrawnbabyonesies">baby onesie</a> designs. Rainbow star was my favourite onesie design of 2016, hopefully I can come up with something just as cute.<br />
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Never mind lose weight and get fit and all that usual, non-specific stuff. My aim for 2017 is to do my food prep. I always eat better when I take a couple of hours each week to actually prepare a load of food in advance. And when I eat better, I feel better. I found this post over at <a href="http://www.hungryhealthyhappy.com/clean-eating-food-preparation/">Hungry Healthy Happy</a> particularly inspiring, though I've never quite reached such awesome levels of organisation. I can but dream. Dannii also writes about <a href="http://www.hungryhealthyhappy.com/healthy-eating-on-a-budget-shopping-list-and-meal-plan/">eating well on a budget</a>, which was just as useful.<br />
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Resist the temptation to cut my hair until it reaches the magic length which means I can donate it to the <a href="http://www.littleprincesses.org.uk/">Little Princess Trust</a>. This charity makes and provides wigs free of charge to children who need them due to cancer treatments and other illnesses. I donated my hair a couple of years ago and think it's a really worthwhile cause that uses a resource that would otherwise just end up in the bin. I've had one hair trim in the past two years to help me get there, and I'm itching to get a major chop, but I will resist for at least another 6 months. I'm too chicken to have my hair less than shoulder length, so I need to crow it pretty long to accomplish a decent length of donation. 7 inches is the minimum requirement but the longer the better!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-30250903349698824872016-12-24T08:00:00.001-08:002016-12-24T08:00:07.644-08:00Merry ChristmasThis is our first Christmas as a family of three so it's rather special. When I think how life was this time last year, my mind boggles.<br />
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This time last year, I was extremely pregnant, 38 weeks exactly on Christmas Eve. I will never forget that as my husband and I spent most of Christmas Eve in hospital wondering if I was going to need an early induction. I was being tested for a nasty condition which only goes away after birth and was incredibly uncomfortable. Thankfully they all came out negative, and we were able to spend Christmas Day together and at home, and I had to wait out my discomfort for another three weeks before Baby A made his appearance.<br />
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This year we have a near one year old tearing up the house. Life is hectic and busy and noisy, but never has it been so fun and loving and exciting. Even though I know Baby A won't remember any of this, I have been super excited for his first Christmas, and so has his daddy.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-73393942636530048112016-12-15T06:29:00.000-08:002016-12-15T06:29:01.482-08:00Christmas Baby DilemmasThis Christmas will be Baby A's first Christmas, and while that is very exciting, it is throwing up lots of new, little dilemmas that never occurred to me before I had children.<br />
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Our living room isn't very big - none of our rooms are. Our house is the opposite of open plan. Generally, we quite like it that way since we enjoy not having cooking smells in the living room or hearing the TV while in the dining room. But it's always been a squeeze to fit our not enormous Christmas tree in the living room. And this year we have the added problem of also fitting in a fire guard, a play pen, lots of toys and a very mobile, inquisitive child who does not yet understand the word 'danger'. I am pretty sure he will try to pull himself up on the tree, if not climb it. Tinsel and baubles will be stolen, played with, eaten, hidden. I was pondering not putting one up this year, but I really would like to. I'm just anticipating playing tree police for much of the festive season.<br />
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Call me Scrooge, but I don't see the point in giving loads of presents to an 11 month old. He doesn't know what Christmas is, he won't remember it, and he'll probably be far more interested in the paper and empty boxes than any presents themselves. Plus as mentioned, we don't have an enormous house. I'm very grateful for any gifts he may receive from doting grandparents, but I'm also wondering where on earth we're going to store all this stuff. I've become depressingly practical! So with all that in mind, I haven't actually bought Baby A anything for Christmas. Mean Mummy! He won't be totally ignored on Christmas Day though. I am knitting him a cuddly toy so we have something to give him. Partly because I would like to have something with his name on under our tree and something I can say was his 'first Christmas present', but mostly because I've enjoyed learning to knit it. Everyone is happy!<br />
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Baby A attends nursery one day a week. It is attached to a primary school and every child, including the ones in nursery, have been invited to participate in the school's Christmas Show. At 11 months old, I'm not quite sure what Baby A would be doing, since he cannot be trusted to even sit in the same spot for more than 2 seconds. But it doesn't matter because the show isn't happening on his nursery day and I don't have any spare holidays left to take an afternoon off work to watch him be held by someone else on stage. I would quite like to, but it seems somewhat ridiculous when he's still so young and oblivious. The only thing that saddens me is he would have been dressed as a Christmas pudding. I'm tempted to make my own Christmas pudding outfit for him, just because it would have been so cute! In fact here is a tutorial for a <a href="http://craftbits.com/project/child-s-hat-christmas-pudding-beanie/">Christmas pudding hat</a> because why not?<br />
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I have a relatively short Christmas card list usually. I send them to close family and the odd friend that lives far away but who I correspond with regularly. It hasn't changed in years. I definitely know everyone on my list. But this year, nursery sent home a list of all the children in Baby A's room, as well as all the staff. There's only 15 or so children in his age range as it's a small place, but I think I am supposed to do Christmas cards for them all, even though I don't have a clue who most of them are. And of course neither does Baby A, being 11 months old and all. At the moment he is far more interested in porridge than other children. Does everyone join in with this? Will I be judged for not participating? Will I forever be referred to as the Scrooge mother? I didn't expect all this so soon! I guess this is good practice for when he attends actual school. I will be a Christmas card pro by then (she hopes).<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-20558613314570770992016-12-02T06:54:00.000-08:002016-12-02T06:54:03.308-08:00Last Order Dates Before ChristmasJust a reminder that if that special hand drawn baby onesie is needed by Christmas, you'd best hurry up! Here are my last order dates if you want to get your onesie by Christmas.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-88876264029784018642016-11-30T07:38:00.000-08:002016-11-30T07:38:19.277-08:00FoxesApparently foxes are cool. I've always liked fox designs, but looking at what's in the shops, it seems the world has finally come around to my way of thinking. Well for this season at least. It wouldn't matter if foxes were cool or not, it was only a matter of time before I got around to designing a hand drawn <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/481373864/hand-drawn-baby-onesie-foxes?ref=listing-shop-header-0">foxy onesie</a> for Baby A.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-49735212723115598672016-11-27T11:53:00.002-08:002016-11-27T11:53:27.897-08:00Get FruityNow Baby A is over ten months old, we are well into weaning. It's going pretty well so far. It turns out he is totally NOT an advocate of baby lead weaning, not when there is a mummy present who will spoon feed him with very little effort on his part. And despite putting anything and everything in his mouth when we are not at the dinner table, he seems oddly reluctant to do finger food himself. Strange! But if someone else puts the effort in to feed him, he will attack almost everything with gusto. We've tried fruit and veg, fish and meat, bread, porridge (so much porridge), yogurt, cheese and all sorts of things. So all in all I'm calling it good progress so far.<div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-17333961982427260962016-10-25T07:49:00.000-07:002016-10-25T07:49:14.983-07:00A new stage of life.I write here today, for once not distracted by a giggling/grumpy/crying/playing child. All my spelling and grammar mistakes are my own fault on this occasion. Because the young man is today at nursery for the entire day, and I am at home, for the ENTIRE DAY. I start back part-time at work in a couple of weeks, but we wanted to get him settled into nursery before then. So here I find myself, with no baby distraction, able to actually do what I fancy (sort of). For the first time in months. <div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-21919300280367931522016-10-06T11:31:00.000-07:002016-10-06T11:31:05.571-07:00Gorgeous wooden stuff at Jigsaw Wooden Products<div style="text-align: center;">
I needed some finishing touches for Baby A's room. We went with a fairly neutral yellow wall colour and green carpet, with lots of red touches to make it a bit more personal. So I was looking for some kind of red clock or pegs, rocket themed would be a bonus. At times like this I turn to Etsy of course.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-57511336553127062372016-09-14T07:17:00.002-07:002016-09-14T07:17:45.829-07:00The nursery continuesWe've pretty much finished the baby's room (he's only 8 months old, it's about time) but I add the odd thing here and there still. I've put a couple of handmade wall hangings up. I made these both a couple of years ago, before we even thought about having babies, just because I enjoy sewing patchwork. But we decided they would fit in well with the baby's room.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-40770836055461437842016-08-02T02:01:00.000-07:002016-08-02T02:01:12.004-07:00Nursery BuntingBaby Andrew's bedroom is finally finished (6 months after he was born, better late than never). I had fun making some of the finishing touches like the curtains and bunting. The room itself is quite neutral as I don't like to assign colours based on gender, so I went for a little more colour in the accessories. Here is the finished bunting.<br />
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This was my first time making curtains and I basically winged it. I also wanted black out fabric since it's going in the child's room and we all want as much sleep as we can get. My made-up, probably wrong method of curtain making, was to cut the black out fabric to the exact size I wanted, then to fold the curtain fabric over that (double folding it so the raw edge is hidden. That way I could be sure both curtains would be the correct size so long as I cut the black out fabric correctly. It more or less worked! Pinning the fabrics together was the worst part since my table wasn't big enough and I lack the floor space to do it without blocking all the doors. I was also looking after baby Andrew alone, so this took ALL DAY!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-49303715737693664952016-07-25T03:34:00.000-07:002016-07-25T03:34:03.315-07:00My Dear Jane Quilt<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">A few years ago I discovered the joy that is patchwork and quilting. Since I always like to run before I can walk, I decided as my second ever quilt to go for the mother of them all, a Baby Jane quilt, based on a Dear Jane quilt. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">A Baby Jane quilt is based on the blocks from the original </span><a href="http://www.dearjane.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #646464; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Dear Jane quilt</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">, a quilt made by Jane A. Stickle in 1863. It consists of 225 individual patterns - each square and border triangle is different. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Now I cheated, I admit. I didn't do all the blocks in a proper Dear Jane, and I left all the triangular blocks blank. But I certainly did well over half of the square ones, and for a complete novice, I'm quite pleased with it myself, if I do say so. This was my second ever quilt and far more complicated than anything I'd ever attempted previously. It took eight months to complete start to finish. Good thing I didn't have a baby back then or no doubt it would have been a lot longer.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.56px;">It will fit the bed it's intended for,<br />
which is a King whereas this is only a standard double.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">One day I hope to complete an entire Baby Jane quilt using all the patterns. If you want to know all these patterns, I would recommend the Dear Jane book by Brenda Manges Papadakis, which is what I used. It's well worth the money and you could use the patterns to make hundreds of different patchwork designs.</span></span><br />
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If you enjoyed my miniature liquorice tutorial using polymer clay, hopefully you'll enjoy this one too. It's slightly more advanced, requiring more specialised supplies like chalk pastels and oil paint, but it's a fun, little project that yields realistic results for your doll house. As usual, these doll house miniature projects are not intended for young children!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is the tutorial I made a while ago showing how to make 1/12th scale egg and soldiers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas><v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></v:shapetype></span><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_s1036" style="height: 183pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 258pt; margin-top: 4.05pt; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 200.25pt; z-index: -11;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-162 0 -162 21423 21681 21423 21681 0 -162 0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s begin with the eggs. Condition some white clay by rolling it in your hands until it is easily malleable. Unconditioned clay can crumble, and make it harder to work with later on. Roll your white clay into a sausage about 0.5cm in diameter, and then cut into sections about 0.5cm long. Roll each section into an egg shape, by applying more pressure at one end than the other. Once you get the hang of it, it’s satisfyingly quick and easy! Don’t worry if there are little bits of fluff on your egg’s surface, the next step will cover up all but the largest imperfections.</span><br />
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzfVP9BVdn_0GdLbCqVOfa-08oFXRR-jYmFtoKKzLpVjbx_ReG1pmVaZgC9G9gcBRbiEgkMwbdYdZVEumMuEay7NedfpZ37FUQTB-3UbTaSJj9AnTro0bQRr3QjurDiis6CG7bruwRopU/s320/tutorial+012.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(228, 228, 228); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="320" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">3.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1035" style="height: 198pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 258pt; margin-top: 21.15pt; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 200.25pt; z-index: -10;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-162 0 -162 21436 21681 21436 21681 0 -162 0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: inherit;">Using your blade, scrape a small amount of your chalk pastels to form dust. I use a mostly ochre and a little bit of reddish brown, but it really depends how light or dark you want your eggs to be. I wouldn’t recommend making it too light, or it will be difficult to see the contrast of the shell against egg white later on. Brush your egg gently with your soft bristled brush until you’re happy with its appearance.<o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Place your egg in the ceramic egg cup, as this will hold it in place and let you see how it’ll look in the end. With your blade (which you’ve carefully wiped clean of pastel dust of course), roughly cut off the top of your egg, so that the white is showing. It looks better if it is several small cuts rather than just one sweep, as egg shells never crack uniformly. Using your pin head, create a small dimple of a well in the egg</span><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1034" style="height: 194.25pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 263.25pt; margin-top: 43.5pt; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 194.7pt; z-index: -9;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-166 0 -166 21517 21633 21517 21633 0 -166 0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><w:wrap type="tight"></w:wrap></span></v:shape><span style="font-family: inherit;">white place, this is where your yolk will go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Using your pin, carefully add the yolk one drip at a time. You won’t need much! Put your egg to one side, it’s finished for now.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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I may have had one of those run before you can walk moments again.<br />
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It's not that the technique is particularly difficult, it's pretty simple and very well explained. It's just that it takes quite a long time compared to the other felt food projects I had already done. I sewed the whole thing by hand too, just because I'm too lazy to set up my sewing machine for a little bit of one coloured thread. Also, I didn't realise before I started that my two sheets of yellow felt weren't quite the same shade of yellow (and this project does use a lot of yellow felt) so that doesn't quite match. Oh well, it's only going to get chewed to pieces by the baby when he's a little older, so I'm trying not to dwell on it.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-13000310039839295722016-07-18T06:18:00.000-07:002016-07-18T06:18:00.946-07:00Pink StarI naturally have an aversion to pink. I think it's a lovely colour, but as the only girl of four children I spent of my childhood actively rebelling against pink. I didn't want to be the girly one, the dainty one, the quiet one, with three boisterous brothers. Aged 5 I decided the best way to avoid such stereotyping (I didn't know that's what it was called, but that's essentially what I was against) was to avoid pink. And boy did I. My dear grandmother was an amazing seamstress and was probably quite gutted over my refusal to do pink, but she soon learnt I was perfectly happy in green or blue and made me far too many dresses in those hues instead. Nowadays I will wear a bit of pink (not a whole dress!) and I'm slowly getting over my pink aversion. If I had had a little girl, I probably would have dressed her in pink sometimes, but I'd have been on the hunt for every other colour over pink any day.<br />
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So it's taken me a while to start drawing <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/450047044/hand-drawn-baby-onesie-pink-and-red-star?ref=listing-shop-header-1">pink onesies</a>. Here's my first pink star onesie, although it's got a lot of red in it too. I can't go <i>all</i> pink at once. Do I look like Barbie to you?<br />
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Some of these I just made up as I went along (how hard can it be to make a slice of cheese?) but for some of them I followed online tutorials. There are hundreds out there, so I won't bother putting my own methods up. Here are a few good sites if you're interested in making your own felt food, just click on the name to go to their blogs.</div>
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One of my favourite baby onesie designs are swirls. They're quite therapeutic to draw too. I enjoy coming up with different colour combinations. Here is my latest one in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/463528951/hand-drawn-baby-onesie-pink-and-blue?ref=listing-shop-header-2">pink and blue</a>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735373346203124068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6304058564975782731.post-85693761706091464622016-07-09T07:36:00.000-07:002016-07-09T07:36:00.182-07:00Nursery TimeMost people I know had their baby's nursery decorated and sorted long before the baby arrived. Not so in this house! In my defence, we did a LOT of home renovations while I was pregnant with Andrew, but our house is such a project there were much more pressing needs, like my own bedroom and a room (any room!) to live in downstairs. I was up a ladder painting beams at 7 and a half months pregnant, so it's not as though we took it easy. And since we always planned on having the baby sleep in our room for at least the first 6 months, we weren't in any huge rush to complete his bedroom. We did the dining room when he was 2-3 months old as I wanted an easy floor to clean for when he starts weaning. Priorities!<br />
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I love the idea of a chalk board on the wall, although I'm not convinced it won't encourage him to draw all over the walls. I did that loads as a kid! Hopefully having a framed one will make it obvious where he is supposed to stop. Never helped my parents though. My childhood speciality was painting radiators. </div>
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