3 December, 2009 by halfpintpixie
The HPP household is now hooked on Klean Kanteens, our tap water tastes just staggeringly wonderful out of them, and our tap water is normally pretty yuck, so that’s saying something.
Mr.HPP’s new Kanteen arrived today and, good wife that I am, I busied myself about sewing him a wee holder for it. He plays World of Warcraft as a Horde character, who is just a gorgeous brute, as they tend to be 
And he graciously and subtly im’ed me a link to the Horde logo after he ordered the Kanteen, so I got the hint and here it is…. cool and horde-ly eh?
Posted in General Musings | Tagged klean kanteen, the-horde, warcrafting, world-of-warcraft, world-of-warcrafts, WOW | 1 Comment »
3 December, 2009 by halfpintpixie
One of the quite splendid benefits of being a mammy is that Santa automagically adds you to the nice list. You see, we mammies are such a hard-working, self-sacrificing lot that we are above mere “naughty or nice” labels, so Santa, recognising this, adds us to the top of the nice list, and most importantly, doesn’t audit us, so in reality, we get away with a lot!
Like this book, which um, just may be falling into my Christmas Stocking this year… Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar! I ask you… Doesn’t it just scream “well behaved, nice, self-sacrificing, hard-working mammy” to you, I mean it’s a cookbook, it’s for the kitchen, see what a good mammy I am??? Look at these pics on flickr, hom nyom nyom nyom…. can’t wait (in a non-naughty way of course, it’s for the kitchen, people, just a cookbook, nothing to see here… move along)!
On an aside…. Bibble received her goodies from me so I can do the big reveal…. it’s a pizza I went back to basics and redesigned the pizza I originally made last year for Littlepixie. It had been too fiddley and pieces kept getting lost, so this time I sewed the tomato sauce & hummus layers onto the pizza sections. It comes in a handmade cardboard pizza box with 4 funky napkins (not pictured) and it has mushrooms, orange peppers, green peppers and some round red things that I liked the colour of, let’s say they’re vegan pepperoni, shall we?
Hours of fun and games
Tomorrow is the day that I shut up Littlepixieshoppe for the Christmas, there is still one custom slot remaining… go on, you know you want a babywearing gnome for your Christmas tree, they’re kitschy and cool!
On another aside… did you all notice the snow is back on my blog! Hooray… It’s almost Christmas!
Posted in Children, Family, Food & Drink, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, Vegan Cooking, Vegetarian, crafts, felt-food | Tagged babywearing-mama-gnomes, baking, christmas, felt pizza, felt-food, toy food, vegan-cookies | 2 Comments »
30 November, 2009 by halfpintpixie
Tomorrow is December and I will soon be shutting up Little Pixie Shoppe for at least a month, probably more. Littlepixie no longer naps so my sewing time is greatly reduced, but I’m very proud of her, she’s getting so big!! So I have decided to wrap up gnome production for the foreseeable future.
Before I close up the shop, I have put two custom slots in the shop for either a babywearing mama gnome keychain or Christmas decoration. If any of you fancy getting one as a special Christmas present for someone special or indeed for yourself, now’s your chance. The shop will be open till Friday, Christmas preparations will take up most of my time after that you see, we’ll be putting our tree up on Saturday so it’s all go from then Christmas-wise!
76 gnomes have passed through the virtual doors of Little Pixie Shoppe, isn’t that splendid? Suffice to say, I am utterly delighted that I was able to make so many, as they enabled me to send quite a pile of treasure to Barnardos! Here are a few of the mama gnomes in all their glorious colourfullness…
So, yes, if any of you want one, there are two custom slots in the shop….. quick run over and grab them before they’re gone
Onwards and upwards!
Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, General Musings, Parenting, SAHM, crafts | Tagged art-and-craft, babywearing-mama-gnomes, etsy, gnome | 1 Comment »
27 November, 2009 by halfpintpixie
An accidental waaaay over-ordering of courgettes from Tesco’s (I asked for 4 courgettes, not realising that I had asked for 4 multipacks!) followed by the arrival of more courgettes the following day in our vegbox prompted me to hunt out the recipe I printed out last year for Zucchini Cake from the PPK.
The magimix made quick work of the courgettes, Littlepixie got busy mixing all the ingredients and I found our muffin tray! Along with using up my courgette stash the recipe also required chocolate chips, unusual thought I, but who am I to toy with the ppk? I poured them in lavishly and gleefully while Littlepixie stuck her hands into the mixture to fish them back out to scoff! Actually that’s one good thing about vegan baking, the absence of raw eggs means LP is pretty free to taste any stage of the mixing, and she does, especially if it involves chocolate!
We made one loaf & lots of muffins and ate them all. Very delicious! I think we could cut way back on the sugar in them, I just need to rope my brain in and figure out what to put in instead. I still have more courgettes left over, methinks I might make some more this weekend. Has to be done, you know
Posted in Children, Family, Food & Drink, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, Vegan Cooking, Vegetarian | Tagged post-punk-kitchen, zucchini | 3 Comments »
17 November, 2009 by halfpintpixie
Today was wet and rainy and dull and stormy but the postie brightened up my day with a splendid parcel containing two exciting things from my good friend Bibble! The first was for Littlepixie – a mermaid & pink cord SSC for carrying her dolls, she absolutely loves it! In exchange for this carrier I made a special felt food gift for Bibble’s daughter which I will show you all after she receives it (can’t spoil the surprise!).
And the second goodie was my new bag, I have been soooo looking forward to this bag. I was able to ask for as many pockets as I wanted (I love pockets!) and it is just perfect. It’s so hard to find the exact right bag but methinks this is it! Some pictures….
The front:
Shall we count the pockets? Here goes…
The back has a velcro pocket (1) – Continue Reading »
Posted in Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler | Tagged bag, bibble, nappy-bag, tote-bag | 7 Comments »
13 November, 2009 by halfpintpixie
After reading about the wonders of them for ages, we can finally get the Klean Kanteens in Ireland, yay! So I got one for Littlepixie, and she absolutely loves it. LP informed me earlier today that it was very chilly on her hands, and that it needed a red cover with a purple flower. So I got out the needle, thread & felt (of course) then a little snip here, a bit of blanket-stitching there, a flower here, some more stitching there et voila…. a snuggly cover for the Kanteen. Marvellous
Posted in Children, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, crafts | Tagged art-and-craft, felt, klean kanteen, sewing | 7 Comments »
3 November, 2009 by halfpintpixie
Just wishing my favourite little pixie a big huge “Happy Birthday”!! She’s 3 already, I can hardly believe it!
Cake was our good old reliable – vegan victoria sponge – filled with strawberry jam, lashings of coconut cream, sprinklings of cocoa powder and dottings of chocolate buttons – so, so, so very delicious! Go on, make some – I command it!
Posted in Children, General Musings, SAHM, Toddler | Tagged birthday | 8 Comments »
28 September, 2009 by halfpintpixie
Ooops, the lovely ladies who organise the annual Babywearing Ireland conference are going to have to ban me from the raffle next year as I won a splendid new sling this year (I won a sjaltai there last year!), I normally don’t win raffles, so this is very exciting for me
It was all the more splendid as we couldn’t get to the conference this year, so I asked a friend to buy me some raffle tickets, you know, just for fun! And I won a prize… and not just any prize, I won an SSC (soft structured carrier) made by my dear friend Bibble.
It may be a week or so before I get the SSC so here’s 2 pics I cleverly stole from Bibble’s site, doesn’t it look fab, and look at the BWI logo embroidery on the hood!!
If you pop over to Bibble’s blog you can see more detailed photos of the SSC!
Another lovely friend modelled the SSC in the sling fashion show at the conference and was very impressed at how comfortable it is, so I am very excited to try it out!
Woo Hoo!
Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler | Tagged babywearing-ireland, bibble, bibble baby carriers, Bibble SSC, BWI, soft-structured-carrier | 2 Comments »
24 September, 2009 by halfpintpixie
Our little village is a very windy place, and in winter it’s a very cold windy place, in summer it’s hot & windy, see how we distinguish the seasons? Our back garden has fantastic near-magical clothes-drying powers due to the wind and is great for running around in but LP’s playhouse hasn’t got much use recently as it is colddddd in there, brrrr…
So today during no-nap-time, myself & Littlepixie decided to bring her much neglected playhouse in from the garden and make it into an indoor hut for her. Cue a lot of water, washing down the whole house, removing countless slumbering spiders, and eventually disassembling half of the house in order to get it through the door. It was an early birthday present from my mum & dad, and LP kept telling me “Uh, grandad made that, you shouldn’t take it apart”!
It’s too big for under the stairs, so we have made a wee spot for it in the kitchen where her play kitchen and market live. She promptly moved the play kitchen and tea trolley (an old wooden vegetable rack!) into the house and stuck her head out the window to say” Uh, how do you know a princess lives here?”.
LP has decided that princesses live in houses with flags (we have a lot of local football fans around, there are always various team flags in gardens) so thus instructed, I scurried to my recently tidied fabric box, got the good old pinking shears, some ribbon and my stapler and made cute little pennants for the sides of the house. Then we scavenged around and found a couple of rugs, some cushions, a scarf draped over the top and many, many sticky hooks to hang up all her accoutrements and we were done! We put the market at the side window so we can play market shop too
I present to you… Arabia! (LP is currently an Arabian princess, it will more than likely have a new name tomorrow, I don’t decide these things )
My mum had the fab idea of changing the decor with the seasons, can you imagine how splendid it’ll look when the winter fairies pay a visit?!
Gosh, I’m exhausted now, hopefully LP will nap tomorrow
Oh yes, and with regard to my previous post, I’m fairly sure that the dictionary definition of “declutter” is not “the act of moving a perfectly functional garden playhouse into your kitchen to fill up even more space”. I am so bad at decluttering
Posted in Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, crafts, felt-food | Tagged art, playhouse | 4 Comments »
23 September, 2009 by halfpintpixie
What does it say about my household cleaning habits that whenever I say “Ok, let’s clean up this room”, Littlepixie jumps up excitedly and says “Woo hoo, Who’s coming to visit?”
Hmmm…. I do clean, really I do (even when we have no guests due), sort of, occasionally, you know how it is 
Actually I bought this postcard for the fridge while I was in London at Easter, everyone who calls by is impressed at how well it suits me (and the outfit is virtually identical to my housecleaning clothes, uncanny!):
(apologies to those of you who do have clean houses, I’m just bitter and jealous, don’t mind me ).
Actually, note to self (BIG note) – Declutter house… one of these days.
Posted in Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM | Tagged cleaning, household | 7 Comments »
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