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Nic - Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Benefits of kneading dough

Nic - Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Kneading dough is good for occupying busy hands and minds.  A very difficult week with lots of difficult behaviour from littlest one, challenging all of us in this happy, loving home of ours.  My trusted strategies are not working right now and my patience is wearing thin.  He is angry and frustrated but cannot communicate to me why, I think it is perhaps because he cannot always understand what is being said around him.  In calm moments he has been able to say he understands me clearly, but sometimes not his brother, but always his sister, and often not other people, but definitely his teacher.

The anger is difficult to manage and I have to bat it G to deal with as he is getting stronger and bigger by the day, he likes to pinch and shove me when he's cross, also lots and lots of door slamming and throwing anything he can get his hands on.  So I am back to the drawing board now looking up new ways to manage the 'out of control' tantrums and all that goes with it.

Nature in the home

Nic - Monday, March 18, 2013

It's getting bigger, my current favourite plant taking centre stage thanks to this lovely blog Little Green Shed.  I've joined in Lou's 'Nature in the Home' series which is just lovely and a reason to photograph my many house plants that I adore!  Big thank you Lou!



IG-ing

Nic - Friday, February 08, 2013

The world of Instagram has slightly taken over my photography and blog life for a while now.  With camera's being so brilliant on phones these days making it so easy to snap here, there and everywhere and Instagram enabling me to publish mini-posts and images to a community all from my phone is pretty darn amazing.  I have gathered together a few of my faves from the last few months of 'IGing'.

Some of my recent makes.

Some home interiors.

Some summer ig-ing in France at my parents beautiful house, which is now incidentally for sale! Anyone want to move to France....

Fancy bikes and other things

Nic - Thursday, January 17, 2013

My new bike arrived at long last, my perfect Christmas present, I blogged this here too.  Also some embroidery work that I did before Christmas that was a present for my lovely Mum, it is an interpretation of their house.  I really enjoyed this process, it was a bit made up as I went along, but it worked out well.

France 2012

Nic - Tuesday, September 11, 2012

From the archive

Nic - Monday, August 06, 2012

Weekend Number Nineteen

Nic - Monday, May 14, 2012

Along break from my last post.  I have been busy with actual paid work therefore some prioritising needed to be done. But here is a round up of this weekend.  Some crafting was had by me and my girl, she made the owl on the right, and I made the vases.  It was the most pleasurable bit of crafting I have done in a long time.  A bit of recording was done with the iPad and an electric guitar, his favourite past time these days.  A new addition arrived in the shape of a lamb the stuffed toy variety, and lots of rain and a bit of sun came down on us.

Seeing and Doing

Nic - Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Weekends and Mothers

Nic - Sunday, March 18, 2012

A busy weekend chopping down some friends conifers that had got rather oversized at twelve foot deep and some 40 foot high.  So a bit of community mucking in was had, sharing some food and craic.  Then there was Mother's Day which we really don't do as it is just another made up day to encourage us to spend.  So my little people brought me a cup of tea in bed (my favourite thing ever) baked me a cake and cut flowers from our camelia for the table, all by themselves without any assistance.