Sunday, 30 June 2013

New Daily Grind post!

A-woo-hoo! I was sat thinking the other week that I love Thursdays lately, mainly because How I Met Your Mother is on TV as well as Big Bang Theory and we love sitting down together and watching it, and I really wanted to capture that and I hadn't actually done a Daily Grind/Day in the Life project in such a long time so I decided I was going to do one. It was also by chance that Ali Edwards posted about her monthly Day in the life, and it was going to be the same day as the day I chose without realising. Of course her photos are so much more nicer than mine, but this grind was done purely on my iPhone!


http://kirstybase.com/photolog/27-06-13/


My original hosting package was limited and so I moved my Grind over to google sites (100MB free space so I figured it would do at the time) but luckily I logged into my cpanel and viewed my host's website and found out that I have had quite a boost to my hosting package! Well that was it, I moved my grind back over to my domain of course and instead of a regular site I have done it as another Wordpress site. I have tried Joomla and Drupal, but quite frankly I loved the familiarity of Wordpress (it turns out, I've been using it for about 8 years now! YIKES!) and ALL my sites are now Wordpress. Ha! I have done a simple design for the site and I'm pleased with how it looks.

I know how nice it is to look back on how things used to be "back in the day" and seeing photos of my great grandmother sat at my nan's house in her usual spot, and the fact that in all these years, I still love the chicken and baked bean combination for tea! Be it chicken kiev with beans, chicken chargrill with beans or my latest: cripsy chicken, chips & beans LOL! And when baby comes along, it'll be even more special to remember this time we have just the two of us and have it documented.

And whilst listening to an episode of The Daily Digi podcast I heard about Jolicloud, and it's so nice to think that all my free cloud storage is accessible in one place so that everything I have in all different places will be much easier to locate now :) Please feel free to use my referral links as if you sign up you get free space and so do I:

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Wednesday, 26 June 2013

So much for a 3 day rest!

Last week I had 3 days off work where I had every intention of resting up and catching up on some much needed sleep (thank to suffering with allergies keeping me up at night and the 3am ish pee I have to take every night)

What I actually did was turn the bedroom upside down!

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All my scrapbooking supplies ended up all over the place!

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And clothes too!

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But as we are limited on space and can't fit in a chest of drawers I thought I would empty out my craft tower as my little table would be going but then I thought we could probably use it to store some clothes in :) The tower is small enough that even with the cot in, I'm sure it would fit in OK.

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And while I was on it sorting out the wardrobe and clearing space, that the middle part with the shelves would be for baby supplies!

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What an exhausting 3 days that was! And now I have a pile of stuff to get rid of. Clothes will be donated and I think I will sell all the craft stuff as a bumper lot for cheap on a local site. But glad that's sorted and one less thing to do!

19 weeks tomorrow

And now I have a proper bump! It's hard to believe I am 19 weeks tomorrow... 1 week away from being at the half way mark! Now if only the hospital would hurry up and send me my 20 week scan date through, it seems like I'm the only one in my November group to still be waiting :(

 

Monday, 17 June 2013

Pretty cards

Ah, so excited because my persnickety prints order arrived! I had some of my 3x4 and 6x4 digital cards printed up, from various designers like brittish designs/sahlin studios, digital design essentials and one little bird designs :)
I have seriously got to get some 6x4 photos printed. I need some photos to put in my albums! I have gone a little bit nuts with the cards, I have a bunch of simple stories cards in addition to the ones I had printed and I am awaiting my Midnight edition of Project Life to arrive which I pre-ordered months ago :) I cannot wait! But what use are the cards if I have no printed photos to use them with ;)

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I had some laptop issues which are now thankfully resolved & it is working again so I don't really have much of an excuse. I'm taking 3 days off work starting with today, to catch up on some rest and sleep, as at 17 & a half weeks I appear to wake up every few hours! But in addition to that I have some serious sorting out to do around here. We need to make some room around here, and that means I need to go through my craft supplies and that my mini craft table needs to go later on this year to make room for a cot. That in itself has been a headache. There was one we wanted but even though our bed is up against the wall (that's my side of the bed, not sure for how much longer though as I need to climb over my husband in the night to pee. I never have to get up in the night normally but I won't be able to climb soon lol) the cot was too big for our bedroom, unless we wanted to try and squeeze between the bedside table past the cot and have a narrow passage to the wardrobe & built in cupboard! We have since decided on a winnie the pooh cot bed but need to double check the measurements, it is smaller than the other one though and in sure it will be OK. I have several albums in my cupboard for my cousins kids that I need to finish off and give to them to clear some more space! I have a heck of a lot of work to do.

I have also started on Taz's album, and while putting it all together this morning, I realised I actually need to print some more little "filler" cards. I used Digital Design Essentials "A Dogs Life" kit. And I may have put in an order at Crafty-Charlie for some more page protectors, and to switch Taz's album to an orange one and use this green one as either a pregnancy/baby's first year or December Daily (I'm not sure whether if we find out baby's sex whether I may just get a pink or blue album instead for that!)

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And I have also done this for my Project Life album:
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But one thing that made us chuckle, we asked Oliver what he thought his new cousin was going to be and he said a girl, and when asked if he wanted to kiss baby (in my tummy), he said "No, I will wait until it comes out!" Love him! Gareth originally thought baby was a boy but the more he thinks about it, he thinks it's a girl. My brother has 2 boys and we found out my brother in law's baby, due roughly 4 weeks before our baby is also a boy. I have already said I have no idea what baby is, nor would I like to guess!

Monday, 3 June 2013

Where's my glow?

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I have been getting lots of freebies for baby, and with such boxes as my Cow & Gate and Aptamil (above) with the company logo all over the packaging, I have no doubt our postie knows our news LOL!
My latest colitis appointment was a relief, I was told to double my current meds so we can put off having to take steroids a little longer. Though my symptoms have all kind of combined into my pregnancy symptoms. Everything I have read so far say how in the second trimester things get easier and you have a pregnancy glow... Well I am still tired (could be colitis though) but one thing is for sure the feeling that I am breathing fire which I've had since the beginning, is definitely baby related! :D I have the teenage outbreak over my face, but I'm savouring it all, but just wondering where that elusive glow is!

It's strange, even though it's been in the planning stages for about 2 years (tracking periods, wanting to be married for long enough that we got to enjoy the time just the 2 of us, assessing where we were in our jobs and when we felt ready etc) It still doesn't seem real. I often just take a moment, sit and think "there is a baby in my tummy!"