It's been a few days ...

The past few days have whizzed by and I've hardly been going on my computer.

On Tuesday Mum and I went to Sevenoaks to a quilt shop I hadn't been to before (I'd never been to Sevenoaks before either!) to look for some material for the next quilt I'm making. I found these materials and the border material (the patterned fabric underneath the others) and a couple of others are from the Basic Grey "Eva" range by Moda. I'd never seen scrapbook papers as fabric before so this was quite cool! This morning Hugh, Claire, Mum, Dad and I went and voted first thing. We had to go to our local community centre and were in and out quite quickly. I'm interested to see what's going to happen with these elections, it's certainly the closest the parties have been in a long time!

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It was then time for us to head down to the hospital for Claire's 12 week scan. Claire and Craig both had the day off work for the scan so Craig came with us. It was the first time Craig had seen a scan and baby played to the audience. It raised it's arm and we could see the little hand and all the fingers and at one point it looked like it was sticking it's tongue out ;o)

It's amazing what a difference three weeks makes - from the little shrimp like blob to this little baby who is now 6cm long. So sweet!

Gadgets

I have to confess to being a bit sad when it comes to gadgets - I really do enjoy them. I love all my cameras, the different lenses, flashes etc; I love my iPod and from today, I can love my new iPhone too.

I've been looking at the iPhones for a while and with my phone contract eligible for an upgrade this month, I decided to take the plunge and get one. I'm enjoying what I'm seeing so far and looking forward to playing with it more tomorrow. Happy days :)

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Making me happy :)

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When Mum and I went to have tea in Lingfield this week, I saw this little bowl in the shop and immediately thought of it filled with M&Ms, Jelly Babies or Skittles :o). Today it's filled with Peanut M&Ms.

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Last day of April

I realise I've been neglecting my blog a bit the last couple of days. Sometimes life takes over and that's the way it goes - it's been one of those times for me :) I've been enjoying being outside in the warmer weather (though it's now changing and becoming cooler again), meeting up with friends for coffee and just doing everyday things.

After visiting a friend this morning, I popped into the butchers on the way home to get some meat for Jon's pepper stew (way too hot for any of the rest of us to eat it!) and picked up a sausage and onion puff for my lunch. I made a salad to have with it and it was delicious! It's also made me realise, ready prepared salad greens that you just take out of the bag are so much easier and quicker ;o) - just added some cherry tomatoes, red pepper, feta, spring onion and avocado -with a drizzle of ranch dressing over the top - yum!!

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It's bank holiday weekend this weekend and Jon's looking forward to three days off (though he's been working from home today which saved him another journey). We don't have set plans, had been hoping for a braai but maybe not :o( - we also need to do some tidying in preparation for our next guests arriving next weekend. Busy, busy!! Have a great weekend

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