Blog — family

Chocolate and Baby Blankets...

Posted by vicki brown on

I'm still working on a baby blanket a started a million years ago (well maybe not that long ago, but all the way back hereanyway), I knitted up the squares, but well they are not the squarest of squares so I begun to edge them in crochet and then kind of forgot about them! That is until yesterday when Johnny said I was absolutely not allowed to begin on anything else for the baby until that blue...

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Some Zesty Baby Treats...

Posted by vicki brown on

After the massive closing down sale of my favourite place to by yarn, a couple of months ago, I now have quite a large quantity of lovely expensive rowan yarn to use up. One of my favourite finds was a bag (10 balls in total) of the wonderful milk cottonin, the colour I have just discovered is called, "fruit salad" (I think I love it even more now!). I also have to share with you the fact that...

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Baby things....

Posted by vicki brown on

As I have no craftiness of my own to share today and we went and purchased our pram yesterday I can't help but think about baby things...so I thought I'd share with you some of my favourites on etsy at the moment.

algiers, 1932
By tollipop

The Adam

Happy Monday xxx

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A Trip to London....

Posted by vicki brown on

As I mentioned last week I took my niece on her first visit to the bright lights of London this weekend. She LOVED it!! And so did me and Johnny. It was the first time I had taken her away before and got to spend a whole 3 days in her company. She lives in a little town in Norfolk, so it really was quite a cultural change to what she's used to..
I could go on and on and on about what a wonderful...

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Back Again....

Posted by vicki brown on

After another unexpected absence (well longer than intended anyway) I am back, and I have now finished work and gone on my maternity leave so fully intend to be a good girl and post everyday!

I had a lovely time in Portugal with my family, it was great to spend some time with my nieces before I get too big fat or distracted with my own baby to play so much.

The weather wasn't fantastic, it rained...

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