normal blogging will continue eventually!

 

Thank you ALL so much for the lovely comments for my last post, I have read every one of them and its just over whelmingly kind and Pehr can read them when she grows up : )

Pehr

Our daughter was born on 14th October, weighing 7.5lbs

 

Oh my, what a wonder it is to give birth to an actual human! Something so perfect {well,  I AM biased} could come out of my body is still unbelievable. I feel like we just ordered her from Amazon or something. We are totally besotted and cant stop looking at her. She has a million different expressions and sounds, you never know whats coming next!

She is learning what she likes and doesn't like and we are learning to keep up with that!

So far so good : )

The name Pehr is a Swedish boys name {comes from the name Peter} and is also a girls name in Hindu, meaning 'phase or time of the day'

 

We just like the sound of it {we pronounce it like 'pear'}

 

As you can see, she looks a lot like her dad! but I sometimes see tiny glimpses of me...a Japanese me, which is very odd...but I like it very much! xxx

I'll be back with more updates soon, when she is having a nap...

p.s. these photos were taken at 2 days old. xxx

A project for this dull autumnal Sunday was to finally get around to renovating our bunk beds that belong in our Camper van. They fit into the sides and fold out thus accommodating kids or 'small adults'.

When we bought our van and stripped out the interior, the bunks were in a terrible state...all the white plastic coating was flaking off the frames, revealing rusty pipes, and the orange fabric, though truly chic in 1978, was not quite in keeping with the rest of the decor we had planned.

Its taken us a year to get around to do this!

I would show you 'before pics' but someone decided that our camera should belong to them instead, and therefore stole it from our car...bastardos! : (

 

anyways, while Mister got on with re-painting the metal work, I whizzed up the new covers  in my shed.

The fabric is linen based, stripey, and from the Cloth Shop in notting hill.

Cutting them out on the floor was quite a job when heavily prego I can tell you!

I had to double stitch all the seams to make them stronger.

we tried one out to make sure it fits ok...

This will be the view from the top {i.e. the side you don't see, with the seams}

I'd love to show you them fitted back in the van, but one bunk is not dry yet, so it will have to be another day. Just wanted to post these piccies in case the babe turns up, and I might not get the chance for a while ; )

meanwhile...

Plimsoll takes full advantage of the soon to be extinct 'peace and quiet' in the flat.