we have a new member

 

 

so we have a new member of the Me&My family....

work is not on the agenda right now....

but lots of plans in the pipe line for Christmas.

creative holidays....

I'm now officially the most pregnant I have ever been!

 summer holidays+ 3 year old+ pregnancy = a challenge!

so we have been getting creative, seeing as tree climbing and football in the garden are off my list for the time being, we have been painting, scrap booking, baking and making good use of the library!

I have found keeping busy is very helpful, and this mobile design has been in my head for about 6 months, I finally finished it, and I love it! its incredibly satisfying making something for your child, that you know is just for them...now I might have to make my son a big kid version...robots and dinosaurs knowing him!

We also found this amazing little place in St Albans called pots of art, which lets you paint a piece of pottery, which they then fire and you collect a week later, it was a lovely way to spend 2 hours, and I now have something I will treasure forever made by my son.

 

now roll on September!!

 

its been a while......

well its been a while...

I'm now at the every end of pregnancy, the bit here your feet swell and walking 5 minutes down the road seems to take all day! Work is definitely on the back burner at the moment and the nesting instinct as well and truly kicked in. not only is my house the tidiest its every been, my 'stuido' (essentially a shelving unit covered in fabric, thread and ribbon) is all packed away and replaced with baby stuff!
Its my sons first summer holidays, and we had the chance to go away for a week to France, at 34 weeks pregnant it was a challenge, it was hot, and humid and I slept a LOT but it was an amazing week full of very happy memories, good food and lots of photos!
I have had time for a little bit of making, its sometime really lovely to just make something for fun....
My son tried his hand at plate decorating, he painted, I traced over his lines, it will be fired and ready to use as a real plate in a weeks time!
I also made a start on a baby mobile, I have big plans for it, with elephants, clouds and balloons, and I hope it will be done in time!

July makes and winding down......

Happy July! Summer has finally arrived and it is lovely! I wish I wasn't 8 months pregnant and could actually wear comfortable clothing, and enjoy the heat wave, oh well, there's always next year (hopefully). So after a busy 7 months for Me&My I'm finally able to slow down the pace, 4 regular stockists, a lot of plans in action for autumn, and a emerging customer base means I can actually start making something for the baby with out having a load of orders needing my attention.

I always have a list of new things I want to make, with my son it was a cot quilt, which having never made one before was a tricky task, but 4 years later its still going strong, despite being washed a million times and dragged through the park several times , so this time around my new make is a mobile, I'm going to scale down my toy ellie design and see how that goes! in the mean time I made my baby its first toy (not knowing the gender means using as many colours as I can!) and my first attempt at a dribble bib! (as modelled by bear) enjoy the weather, my heart goes out to all the heavily pregnant women out there who are just preying for a cool breeze! :-)

 

 

My Home........

 

 

 

Because I work from home, and tend to roam around into different rooms with sewing in hand, I often don't notice or appreciate the things I own, so today I decided to go around and snap some pictures of the things that mean something to me, 1.Paper art from Shanghai 'fake markets', these remind me of my brother who lives in China, and the time I spent over there visiting him. 2.this amazing folded, quilt thing, I don't even know what it is, a coaster maybe? bought at a  craft fair because my stall was opposite and I thought it was stunning. 3. the green bling ring was bought in NYC in China town on a cold April morning when I was on holiday there with my boyfriend. 4.the two toys are made by me for my son and are the only mouse and owl I've ever made like them. 5.this is a silhouette of my son playing my Granddad's old piano. he must have been only 6 months old and was obsessed with it! and finally 6. Prints bought in Paris in a street market, literally cost about 5euros for all of them, but framed they are my favourite things on the wall.

 

and that's a snap shot of my home...... I spend far to much time on pintrest looking for ideas and not enough time enjoying what's around me!

 

chicken pox in the house!

So we were all packed up and ready for a lovely weekend in London with family and friends when chicken pox struck! for 2 days Id been noticing the odd spot on my son, and because its actually been nice enough for him to be out playing in the garden I wrongly assumed he had been bitten but some kind of bug...then I started to get paranoid and stripped his bed thinking it was bed bugs! turns out on arrival to grandmas house it was in  fact chicken pox! he must be the only kid in the world not bothered by them, he has breezed through them, escaping with about 10 spots in total and none on his beautiful face! so plans were changed and we've spent much of the past few days, movie watching and crafting little things with felt and pom poms....

Bring on Spring!

its been nearly a month since I last sat down to write on this blog....
its simply been a crazy crazy month, family illness taking centre stage, many trips back and forth to London to see sick family member (who is getting better) house purchase falling through because the house turned out to need MAJOR renovation, so back to looking for a new house to buy, and the fact that at 4 months pregnant I'm feeling rough!work has definitely taken a back seat, I have been sewing little things, mostly to keep me busy and because I can zone out and just enjoy a simple task. but I cant help but stare at the pile of beautiful fabric, half finished t-shirts and patterns strewn around my studio and think I must just jump straight back in.....and I might just do that.

 

I did however find time to make this little fleece rabbit, took all of an hour, but it is my sons new favorite toy, expect to see many more of these, as I have many friends with babies, and many metres of fleece!

I have been really lazy....

Hello again....
its been slow progress here at Me&My, in between a child with a never ending list of winter ailments, from coughs to colds, throat infections to ear infections I cant think of a week he hasn't been ill in the past month...and packing up our cottage and heading 20 miles north to Bedford where we finally bought our first home, I really havnt so much as picked up a needle or dusted off my sewing machine since December! :-) 

Being from London, and spending most of my childhood in just one place and one house I always thought Id follow suit, but I have moved something like 8 times in 8 years! so clearly the nomad in me wont stay put! However, there is something about buying a house which makes it seem all the more permanent, I am already dreaming of colour schemes on walls, tiles in the kitchen and 'upcycling' all my furniture....so business has been on the back burner. However, there are a few things in the pipe line and once I dig out my camera charger (which along with socks and snacks seems to go missing at an alarming rate) I will stock up my Etsy shop with new tees and baby grows, in fact I may even do it this weekend just because its about time!   here are some things Iv been messing around with, badges and hair clips....(terrible photos...damn you missing camera charger!!)

When England turned into Narnia.....

Its not often I get 3-4 days off from working, but with Narnia turning up and nursery closed, I enjoyed a very wintry few days mucking around in the snow, My son and his Dad built their very first snowman, accompanied by a snow dog, we picked up a bargain sledge in a local toy store, which meant navigating town became a doddle, and we went and made sure the local ducks and swans hadn't frozen in the pond! but now I'm dreaming of Sunshine, lazy summer days and not having to wear several jumpers at the same time! Back to work later today...maybe!

 

 

 

 

snow day off......

Hi, So in typical British fashion, every time it snows everyone acts surprised and the country slowly grinds to a halt!, so after picking up my little man from nursery, and watching him skip home in delight at the snow, we are now having an afternoon off! cue Toy Story box set, homemade cookies, and absolutely NO sewing for me!

St Albans is a very pretty place to live in the summer, but in the winter is looks magical.....

shots of the countryside that hugs our house, my son wrapped up warm and the view from his bedroom.