Photo a Day : 07 - 10 June 2012

07 June 2012

 Spent some time in the afternoon playing around with scanning photos. I have a project coming up where I'm going to have to do some scanning and wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing.

08 June 2012

 Poor Alice gets fed up seeing me with a camera/iPhone pointing at her.  I had called her a few times before she finally gave up and looked at me :) I like the way it came out though.

09 June 2012

 Michelle put this photo of Lily up on Facebook, and I think it's one of my favourites,  so I asked if I could use it for my photo of the day.  Sometimes the more serious ones are the ones that catch my attention.

10 June 2012

Tom, sitting in the bay window this evening - watching the weather (is it really June? You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise with the weather we've been having recently!) and the birds ;o)

Another weekend gone, half term over and a few GCSE exams for Emily coming up this week. Not all bad though as she has a week's study leave and only has to go in to write the exams she has.

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Thank you

Thank you for the comments on yesterday's post :) 

 I have to admit this is one of my favourite quilts so far, I love that the colours are bright but still very girly and look forward to seeing Lily playing on it.

Fortunately, Michelle likes it too :) :)  She said she had wondered if she would get a quilt for Lily but didn't want to ask because she knows I've been quite busy. No need to worry, I couldn't have not made one :)

Emily and I made it home this morning but I had one eye on my dashboard virtually the whole way home as the engine warning light came on just before we got to Eastleigh yesterday and has stayed on ever since :(   The car had a major service last week and I had really hoped that the couple of issues I had had with it had been sorted but unfortunately the jerking it had been doing was still there and now the new engine warning!  I've been in touch with the garage and it's going back in again tomorrow so let's hope it will come back a happy car after that!

For today though, we're looking forward to going round to Theresa's for Alyssa's second birthday tea. Normally I say I can't believe ***** is ** years old but in this case I think, is she really only turning two!! Looking forward to a fun afternoon and I'm sure I'll have more photos to share soon.

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Monday

Today Emily and I are in Eastleigh (between Winchester and Southampton) visiting Jon's daughter, Michelle, and her family. As you may remember, Michelle is expecting her second child in November and now has less than 5 weeks to go :).  Part of the reason for our trip, other than to see them, is to take down some baby clothes from Claire, which Alice has outgrown. With them both born in November (all going well) the ages and seasons will tie in perfectly.

However, what Michelle didn't know is that I've been sewing every chance I get for the last week or so to get this little quilt finished for Lily.  I've found over time that there are no guarantees when looking for fabric for baby quilts. On some occassions I have battled to find anything I like but, fortunately, that wasn't the case this time.  I look for my border fabric first and then choose the other fabrics from the colours used in the border. This quilt has turned out to be lovely and bright and I really hope both Michelle and Lily will like it.

 The back of the quilt is made of polka dot fabric which is so cute!

All boxed up and ready to take :)

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4D Scan

 When Michelle went for her 20 week scan she had really been hoping she would find out whether they would have a boy or a girl but, unfortunately, baby wasn't co-operating that day and they came away none the wiser.

Well, yesterday, that changed when Michelle and Matthew paid to have a private scan to determine the baby's sex. We had thought it would just be a standard scan again but it turned out it was a 4D scan.  Michelle sent me though some of the scan photos and I've played around with these two in Photoshop Elements to try and get a clearer picture for the blog.

 We're so looking forward to welcoming Lily in November :)  Having seen the scans though it feels like a long time to wait still. No doubt time will fly and she'll be here before we know it.

Now we can start buying girly things again :) :)



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