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!
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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 »
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 | 3 Comments »
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.
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Blessed as I am with genetic weak enamel in my back teeth, I do appreciate modern dentistry and all its wonders, but bloody f*$k, I hate fillings!
I had to get an old one replaced today and also a new one put in the tooth beneath it, so one whole half of my face had to be numbed. The lower half de-numbed itself halfway through the procedure (that was a very pleasant surprise indeed, I love that shooting drill-nerve pain so much), so my lovely dentist had to redo the anesthetic on my lower jaw, so all in all, I was unable to feel half of my face until 14:00 in the afternoon (I was out of the dentists at 10:30)! Ugh… and once the numbness finally wore off, the over-sensitive feeling of recently drilled teeth took over. So not fun at all.
Although Littlepixie does keep coming up to me and rubbing my the side of my face saying “your filling is really boo-tiful mama”. What does she think a filling is, I wonder? I didn’t enlighten her! She has seen Topsy & Tim getting one in a book, so perhaps she thinks it’s a fun thing to have It’s not!
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I really should blog smaller posts more frequently! But to make up for the HPP drought, here is a little infodump of random goings-on in HPP-land….
Overalls: My wonderfully talented friend Bibble recently made Littlepixie a gorgeous set of overalls.
These are all the more special because they are crafted from my muchly loved cord skirt that I treated myself to when LP was born (and I was no longer a giant walking belly!). I wore the skirt almost 24-7, so comfy! But it started to get worn-out and faded so the lovely Bibble repurposed it into funky overalls for LP, and she even made a caterpillar pouch for LP’s animals. We love Bibble and are very muchly in awe of her sewing and repurposing abilities ♥
Star Wars vs. Trek: Littlepixie loves Star Wars, Continue Reading »
Posted in Breastfeeding, Children, Family, General Musings, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Star Trek, Toddler, crafts | Tagged babywearing-mama-gnomes, gnomes, harry potter, sci-fi, science-fiction, sewing, star wars, teeth | 3 Comments »
Well here is a very accurate portrait drawn today and proudly presented to me by Littlepixie… have a look, I’m sure that those of you who know me will agree that the likeness is uncanny, isn’t my hair gorgeous, and wow look at that friendly smile!
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I finally got around to making our Autumn table! Littlepixie is really only now getting interested in the concept of a nature table as a permanent evolving feature in the house, previous table attempts were usually scattered to the four winds within minutes.But now she is more interested in the seasons and how the days change so it’s a good time for me to get more organised.
Today was wet and miserable very Autumnal, so myself and LP decided to brighten up the hallway with our new nature table/repurposed bedside-locker.
Some of the ever-splendid pumpkin spice fabric that I love so much made a quick mat, and then we liberally scattered our large stash of real pinecones and wooden acorns all over it. The Autumn gnome that Jumbleberrymama so kindly made for us last year arrived with his house, and LP’s new-ish Autumn mama, baby & daddy gnomes promptly moved in too.
LP located her stash of plastic squirrels from the Ice Age movie that she convinced her granny to collect for her (they are from McD’s, a place that LP is still unaware of ). She just loves them, mostly because they throw acorns at you! The squirrels invaded the table to scoff the acorns, and we added a tied sheaf of dried grass, a felt pumpkin from our market, lots of new felt hastily cut-out autumnal leaves and a colouring picture of a squirrel.
Et voila…. our nature table…. within seconds of my taking this photo, LP moved in a whole heap of other animals, there is now a purple octopus, several fwees and a horse on it!
And here is a gem from LP:
LP: “Mamette, it’s Autumn, what’s next after Hallowe’en?”
Me: “Winter”
LP: “And then Spring?”
Me: “Yup, and then Summer”
LP: “And then what?”
Me: “Then it’ll be Autumn again”
LP: “Oh WOW!! It’s just like a big circle! Wow “
Isn’t that so sweet!
Posted in Children, Family, Mothering, Nature, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, crafts | Tagged autumn, fall, nature-table | 4 Comments »
Thank you all so much for entering my little giveaway!
Using the magical powers of random.org I have found the two lucky people who will soon be the proud keepers of a custom babywearing mama gnome keychain. So without further ado, let’s say a big “hooray” for…
Comment #4 from Mama’s Apple Cores who said
I like Pops best I think. And Fern…
But they are all lovely!
and…
Comment #18 from Paula (Crafty Panties on VET) (I do so love that name!) who said
It’s so hard to choose! I think Araminta might be my favorite (I like the brightly colored ones the best).
But it doesn’t matter which ones were their favourites as they get to design one of their very own each! Yay! So Mama’s Apple Cores & Ms. Paula Crafty Panties, I will be emailing you now to start your gnome adventures
Congratulations! And if anyone else fancies a custom babywearing mama gnome keychain, I would be delighted to work with you, you know where to find me
Here’s the small print…
Babywearing mama gnome keychains are for your bag or your keys, not for your child. They are small with metal parts, so not a good child’s toy at all. OK!?
Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Giveaway, SAHM, Toddler, crafts | Tagged Babywearing, babywearing-mama-gnomes, keychain, keyring | 1 Comment »
Well folks, today I am celebrating my 2nd bloggiversary, well today is actually 2 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day since HPP started, ok, I admit it, I forgot about HPP’s bloggiversary this year
Anyhoo, moving on from my bloggy negligence, I would like to celebrate by offering you lovely people a little giveaway. These days it is all about the babywearing mama gnome keychains, there are none in the shop at the moment as I am busy like a bee making custom gnomes for a group of lovely Irish & UK babywearing mamas. This weekend I should have a few spare moments and will hopefully get to repopulate Little Pixie Shoppe with a few more gnomes keychains.
The custom orders are great fun to make, it is delightful having other people choose the colour combos for me. And, as you know, all profits from the shop are going to a children’s charity, so the big pile of custom orders is absolutely wonderful to receive! Speaking of custom orders… I have penciled in a little treat for HPP readers in my crafting calendar… read on…
Oooh tell me more!
In order to celebrate HPP’s 2nd bloggiversary, I would like to give not one, but two of you the chance to design your own babywearing mama gnome! You can choose the style of babycarrier she wears and choose your favourite colour combos from my big pile of multi-coloured eco-felt, now doesn’t that sound like a fun prize!
Oooh I want one! What do I do? Continue Reading »
Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Contest, Family, Giveaway, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, crafts | Tagged babywearing-mama-gnomes, gnomes, keychain, keyring | 21 Comments »
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