Introducing...... Amani Claire

Just a quick post to let you know that our second darling daughter has arrived.... yes, my gut feeling about it being a boy was completely WRONG. :)

Amani was born on the 20th September at 5.13pm, weighing 8pd2oz and 50cm long. I was scheduled to go in to hospital on Monday morning to have my waters broken so of course I started going into labour on Sunday night. After a couple of highs and lows she eventually came out the natural way - no c-section required this time... YAY! My widwife and the doctor there were absolutely incredible and were determined that I wouldn't need to go to theatre. And while I didn't have the easiest of births it has still been so much easier to recover this time.

Despite looking just like her big sister, Amani is completely different to Jenna - we barely hear a peep out of her unless she's hungry and she is sleeping really well.... I keep waiting for the bubble to burst and for things to take a turn for the worst, but so far, so good.



Well, that's it for now, I hear bub crying - must be time for a feed. :)

Works in progress

I've got so many things on the go at the moment that I thought I'd share a few....

This is one of the canvases that I've started....


It's waiting for this girl to go on it, I just need to give her a bit more colour. Still making my way slowly through the Suzi Blu class I signed up for.....


Another couple of canvases that I've started on... I have no idea what I am doing with the bigger one, the smaller one needs a quote or something on it.

And lastly, a couple of journal pages that are in various stages of completion.

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Have I mentioned how much I love Adirondack Color Wash?? The last double page was done with them - once I had dripped water at the top of the page on the right, I used the brush on the left page. It got just a hint of the colour.

Still waiting for baby... only 3 days until I am officially due, and the pressure is on as my family is up to visit from this weekend. We have been trying to get Jenna to sleep in her big bed for a while now and it hasn't worked, so we decided to leave it until all the visitors are gone because then there will be not as much motivation for her to get out of her bed. I swear she knows something is going on because she just climbed out of her cot for the first time... sneaky little thing! Hasn't tried it again (yet) so hopefully she'll stay there this time!

That's it for now!

Happy Fathers Day!!

Well, today is Fathers Day and we've had a great day so far.... Jenna and I let Noel have a sleep in and we made him a card, then it was off to Sizzler for breakfast! Last Fathers Day Jenna started walking so I'm trying to top that this year by actually having a baby but nothing is happening so far. LOL

I have managed to complete 2 pages in my journal - they came together really quickly, the backgrounds were already done so it was just a matter of adding the rest. I love working on things this way - sometimes you can look at a background and have no idea what to do with it and then another time it all just falls in to place.


You can probably see I'm still working my way through using my stash - most of the stuff I've used is a few years old except for the MME bracket stickers. Only one more thing out of my stash to completely use up and I can get my $100 of new stuff! YAY.... although I already spent it online yesterday so I better hurry up and use something before it arrives. :) Can't wait to get these!

And this is Jenna's first ever journal page, she did it all by herself! She's so clever.... done with watercolour paints and pencil.

It's a nice rainy day here today so I am going to try and make the most of it and spend some time with my feet up on the couch. My energy levels have gone completely south lately and I can't seem to make it through the day without a nap.... only 6 days until I am officially "due". I'm hoping something happens before then though!

Bye for now!