Twinkle Twinkle

Here is the little outfit I made baby j:

Here is baby j rocking the little outfit:

Pink wine

what a magical weekend. the little fairy princess enjoyed herself. my reward: pink wine. goodnight x

fairies, fairy cakes and stars

When Baby J and I got up at 6am this morning we saw a fairy who had fallen asleep on our back door. We didn't wake her.

I spent the day baking for Baby j's birthday. Her cake is a mini iced star motif cake wrapped in a polka dot ribbon. She only needs 1 candle. Its surrounded by fairy cakes that spell out her name. I also made some extra cupcakes topped with little hearts made with the new mini cutter I just bought. Mr K ate the extra bits of cake that were leftover. Baby J stuck her hands in the icing and smeared it around a bit. mmmmmm.

Tonight I am drinking white wine with strawberry milkshake concentrate added to it (is that wrong?) and letting the dishwasher do the work...

I am so in the mood to watch Marie Antoinette. (if I ever have another daughter I might call her that.)

White as Snow

I have already written about my tendancy to move from obsession to obsession when it comes to fairytales... Most recently it was The Princess & the Pea and for the longest time Beauty & the Beast was my fixation. Over the past weeks it has been Snow White. I find that these obsessions overtake me quite naturally. I will be sitting there and suddenly think "I must read Snow White". I think its because in some ingrained way these tales are part of my psyche and whenever I need a little help to work things out, the right tale for the job pops into my head.





If you analyse it, Snow White is about puberty and the steps we go through to reach maturity. I may be married with a house and a kid, but I still need to enter that glass box now and again for some thinking time. We all do. Or maybe take a long hard look in the mirror mirror?



I really love the above edition by Josephine Poole which I amazingly found in the charity shop around the corner from my house. Why do people give these things away? It was 35 pence.




I also love this edition by Berlie Doherty which i bought ages ago in 2004:

Just look how beautiful Snow White is in the illustration.

So now I am inspired to design a Snow White themed journal... since my Princess & the Pea journal worked out so well (and recently sold on my Etsy , yay!)

little stars

This week is Baby J's birthday week. I really can't believe that on Saturday I will become the proud owner of a one year old daughter. How did that happen? (Well I KNOW the stork brought her but...) Never did a whole year whizz by so fast.
Tonight I finally decided on a theme for her party. She is really into 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and every time she sees a star she does the actions to the song: a little open and closing hand like a twinkling star. I sat and cut out a load of multi coloured stars tonight for decorations. There are cakes to make too of course and her little fairy outfit is finished too, complete with star shaped wand.
We both love pretty things and hunting for fairies in the garden, building towers and knocking them down again, following cute dogs in the park, reading picture books, bashing the piano and making castles out of cushions...

I have lots of pictures to upload (and lots more news) but I am too sleepy.

x

lemons and violets

Inspired by reading about fairy crowns I spent the afternoon in the garden knitting a little crown for my own baby fairy. Its not finished yet, its for her to wear on her birthday next saturday.

In the evening I had the luxury of a long soak in the tub accompanied by a vintage teacup filled with vanilla tea. I like to drink tea in the bath. Oh and my bar of soap that smells just like turkish delight. mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I had time to luxuriate tonight because last night I finished the first 3 things for baby Violet's bedroom (my friend's daughter). The colour scheme they picked was sunny yelow and purple, but I have been thinking of it as lemons and violets...

Now I just have to write a rambling letter and then mail everything...

Lady of Letters

This week I am a lady of letters... in more ways than one.

1. LOOKING at letters.
I am reading Patterns of Childhood and gosh I adore those old samplers. I remember spending a few blissful hours in the embroidery room at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. It was in that room I decided to work towards some kind of 'domestic art' business venture one day and to leave behind my previous career in the book trade. I knew then my passions had shifted (though I still adore books, I just don't want to work with them).

2. MAKING letters.
I am spending every evening sewing and embellishing fabric letters. They are very pretty (pictures to follow). These are for selling on Etsy and also for a friend's daughter's bedroom and my own daughter's room too.

3. I have always loved WRITING letters. And I am enjoying rekindling old penships and writing long rambling letters full of ideas, shared experiences, favourite poems and pictures torn from magazines.

4. Then there is READING letters and postcards that flutter to my doormat. And I always did have a 'thing' about postmen...