Thursday 9 January 2014

I make you pretty.

The year is brand spanking new and I am starting of with a bang. I have 3 New Years resolutions - being more creative, making instead of buying and getting even more involved with charity work and of course raising Bibi.

Yesterday I started of with one of our couches. The couch sits like a dream but shame man, its had its days and I gave it a new frock. 

It is so easy. I used an old sheet to make the slipcover and nice shwe shwe material for the cushions both which can be removed to wash. If you need something like this, I used this tutorial:http://www.remodelaholic.com/2011/03/slipcover-instructions/

You look gorgeous my friend!

Wednesday 8 January 2014

Jeeeeez, it has been wonderful.

Ok, so I see that my last blog entry was uuuuuhhhhm... sometime last year. Instead of saying sorry, I'm ashamed or blah blah blah, I am going to share my incredible journey with you instead.  

I fell pregnant exactly this time a year ago.  Some of you know and some of you might gasp for fresh air at this moment. I did not like being pregnant at all. Some mothers glow like a unicorn in rainbow land but me, no way! Being pregnant has its challenges. Like for instance - when tying shoelaces it can sound anything between a hippo in mating season or an old man huffing and puffing on an old nasty tobacco pipe. Yes, everything you do comes with a rather awkward sound. Then if that isn't enough you cannot move or breathe the way you used to. Your lungs sit more or less where your kidneys were,  your stomach sits somewhere near your throat making eating and eating too much the most uncomfortable thing. And pregnant woman are hungry man! Hungry like beast! It does. Or make things easy at all. 

Ok but enough of the bad uncomfortable pregnant belly blues, I gave birth to a special little lady. Lady of the house. Bibi. She is literally the most awesome little person since well...humans were made! Yes, I have said it - I really like my child a lot! This coming from someone who thought kids were little gremlins .  I never saw myself as the mothering type and yes to be honest I also did not have the easiest first 2 months after childbirth. It is damn hard. No book, no website and no human being can prepare you for having a child.  You dive in deep into the ocean and swim through rough seas and then all of a sudden it gets better. Those of you with a little bambino will exactly know what I am talking about. Stop lying to people saying it is the best damn thing since sliced bread and tell them the cold hard truth. Tell yourself the truth dammit! Do it do it do it!

Anywoo, now only after 3 monts I must admit I am really starting to enjoy it. They get personality baby! They discover their hands and feet, they laugh, they make cute noises and they are a part of you and a part of your best friend. It is really the best thing since sliced bread! When you become a parent your life changes completely and the change is gooood! I'm not saying get pregnant this instant, I am saying if you are thinking about it then go for it. It is such a fantastic experience. The best you will ever have because it is real. You can't buy it and it doesn't last for a night. You never get tired of it or wish it away.  It just gets better.

I would like to share this blog article with you I saw on a friends Facebook page. It is very beautiful. http://weseekjoy.blogspot.com/2013/12/babies-ruin-bodies.html

Cheers!