Mira and I went to play in the autumn leaves last Friday and this is what we made - I helped with the design!

This one she did with her friend Jenny and is all her own design. I love the explosion of colour!

And I had a go too.

Jamie now weighs almost six kilos and Mira is thirteen. She has also grown three centimetres this summer.  Her favourite activity is giving Jamie kisses followed by painting…

This is a giraffe and a tiger. We had been to the zoo so she is having an animal theme at the moment. I have also had a few creative moments as I keep running out of thank you cards…

The card blanks themselves are recycled material and so is about half of the decoration.

This is the patch of nasturtiums that she helped dig and plant! The lupins are doing less well… but here is my purple patch

And a friendly snail!

Where did the time go?

Eight and a half months pregnant with number two now…

Very blessed!

A lot of what she told me she was painting was snakes, I hope in the sense of their wisdom and healing symbolism and not the other stuff!

I am currently waiting for her to fall asleep for her afternoon nap which is taking a while…

But an ideal time to catch up quickly on phone calls and emails plus my ever growing to-do list - testing paint pots next! Washable whites. Thanks for dropping by! xxx Heather

The recipe is: zest and juice of a large lemon, a pound of sugar, a pint of boiling water and a 1/3 rd oz citric acid.

As we have another heatwave predicted, it seemed essential to have a batch made up - and the smell! Definitely in my top ten smells.

Mira felt her hair needed more jazzing up today.

There are two guaranteed ways to produce this face: saying no and turning off the TV. We have a week of exciting activities planned - yesterday was soft play and she actually went in the ball pool for a whole two minutes! Today is knit and natter day, and swimming later on. Bath time has now occured twice without drama and she is sitting on a toilet every morning (but not actually using it yet!).

They don’t look quite the same in the picture and something weird has happened to the middle one’s head/beak.  I prefer the flowers really - and have plans to put some on a cardi for Mira that Penny helped me finish! Photos to follow soon! I am also nearly finished my shoes and doing some more on my Babette.

There are zillions of things that need doing round the house - the cushions and carpets need cleaned, the open plan living/dining/kitchen needs painted to remove all the marks that won’t wash off. I think a washable tough white is the way to go! But I’m getting over my cold, and am fed up putting house stuff off.  The bathroom also needs a bit of finishing. I hope I can get through it  - in a sensible, not-wearing-myself-out-before-the-baby fashion!

I’m rather forgetful now and  I can’t fight the fatigue anymore -  why bother, my body knows what it needs and the world won’t fall apart without me. The dentist can wait! I feel encouraged to ’seek peace and pursue it’ and was given this wonderful picture last week which blesses me so much in this way!

When I look at it for even a short time, I feel like the qualities of the deepest meditation wash over me and I’m transported to a realm of rest. I’m so grateful for this gift!