Blogtober 2022 - Day 21 👖

🌟 Jethro's Top 10 Outfits SO FAR! 🌟

1.    I think we've got to begin with the outfit that Jethro came home from the hospital in. I found it on eBay fairly early on in pregnancy and I thought it would be cute to put the newborn baby in a yellow chick onesie because they'd be like a little chick freshly hatched from an egg haha 🐣 I didn't realise until a few days after we'd got him home that it almost perfectly matched a t-shirt I have, so that was a bonus! Sadly this was also the first onesie that he grew out of 😢

2.    The green and blue overall suit was an item I'd been holding onto for at least 5 years! It's from the brand Little Bird by Jools Oliver  and I managed to find it with the tags still on for 50p in a charity shop 😄 result! It's such a cute brand but pretty pricey so I knew I'd found a bargain that would be worth saving for the future. It looks fun paired with this stripey long sleeve underneath which was a present from his auntie and uncle 💕 This outfit just about still fits him but it's getting a bit snug, they really do grow so fast!!!

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3.    Not really an outfit in itself but we can't not mention this little vest! A very cool present from our friend, with that much loved quotation from Psalm 139 - "For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well." 📖

4.    Ahh this very simple turquoisey green onesie (also a gift, we've been very blessed!) 💚 Somehow this ended up being my favourite comfy thing to put Jethro in, I just thought the colour suited him so well. Not much more to say really, doesn't it just look so nice with his skin tone?!

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5.    This funky little combo was a supermarket sale rail find, £3 for the top and trousers! How could I not grab them when the trousers are covered in leaves?! 🌿 The bib and socks just happened to match perfectly as well, 10/10.

6.    This Baby Dior onesie is another one that I've been saving for about 5 years! I found it in a charity shop when I lived in Falmouth, can't remember how much I paid but probably about 50p again 😆 I'm not sure how old it is or how much it would have cost originally, I didn't even realise Dior made baby clothes but here we are and it's very sweet. Paired here with a blue cardigan knitted by my mum and the mustard yellow socks. You'll notice that I love to put him in those socks, they just seem to be the perfect addition to almost any of his outfits! Unfortunately they too are soon to be outgrown, I think I'll have to keep my eye out for a yellow pair in the next size up!

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7.    This one is fun - a charity shop red top which is really soft and says "Make everyday brilliant", with his v cute Winnie the Pooh trousers from Auntie Ellie. You just can't beat primary colours! ❤️💛💙

8.    Jethro's first time wearing proper dungarees! These are a soft corduroy covered in woodland animals, soo sweet 🐰 It's another charity shop combo of course. If you can't tell I'm loving browsing the second hand baby clothes, I often don't even bother looking at the rest of the shop anymore and just head straight to the children's area! He is gathering quite the collection of stripes (we like stripes in this family).

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9.    A jolly outfit for a jolly baby, he was definitely the most colourful person at church on Sunday in this rainbow number 😄🌈 It was a gift from Ed's parents and we were very excited when we realised it now fits him perfectly! With a top covered in bananas 🍌🍌🍌 because why not?!

10.    The final entry...look how cute this lion top is 🦁 and some cool stripey trousers. Thanks again to the charity shops for this ensemble. He wore this to baby group with his mushroom cardigan to complete the look 🍄 very cosy and very stylish indeed.

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Can you tell I'm enjoying having a little one to dress up? And this is only the first 11 weeks (how? 😭), gotta make the most of the time while he has no opinions about what he's wearing lol. The photos in this post are in chronological order so you can see him grow and change so quickly already. His smiles are the best thing ever right now.

Hello April, hello charity shops 👀💪💫

Bonjour friends 🌼 hope you've had some sunshine today like we have! Here's me knitting in the garden this morning with Juniper for company, she's chilling out after chasing bees and fetching sticks like a puppy.

Here's a peek at my new sock I started last night, it's made from leftovers of a few different balls of wool and I'm very excited about it!

Happy April! Belated happy Easter...

Easter Sunday was a blissfully sunny afternoon in the garden, with family and multiple desserts as you can see below. It felt like summer...and then we had a sprinkling of snow a day or two later! Strange April weather.

I went for a run last week (it's becoming a very rare thing 😆) and mostly just enjoyed seeing what new flowers had popped up nearby. I saw a mini wildflower meadow, these unusual daffodils, and 3 different houses with plants for sale outside which was nice.

Meanwhile, young Juniper is always pushing the boundaries and trying to get to places she shouldn't:

I just looked at the date and realised that she was seven months old yesterday! Little teenager cat 🐾

We have officially entered into the exciting time of year when the houseplants are all taking off with lots of new growth! This pothos plant started off as a few short cuttings just last summer...I can't believe how quickly it has tripled in size! I bought the original plant from the Eden Project about two years ago and when it stopped doing so well I took cuttings and started again. You can see the other one climbing up the wall behind me in these photos, I'll have to show you a close up next time because the leaves are starting to get BIG. Vining plants really do well when they're climbing upwards!

Pussy willow, forget-me-nots, and one of our growing collection of begonias in the sun:

Some footage of night time Juniper, wide-eyed and absolutely hyped up because she loves when we change the bedding. This is her actually inside the duvet case:

My beautiful peace lily spathe in all its glory! ✨✨✨

Last week I had a little photoshoot for the snails, I don't think I'd taken proper photos of them since last summer. I'm not sure if they've grown since then, I'll have to look back and see! I can't really tell them apart anymore either. Sebastian used to be noticeably bigger than Sabrina but she seems to have caught up in size 😄

Ed and I picked up this pretty streptocarpus from someone's plant sale recently. We didn't really know anything about looking after them but it has been very easy and is flowering non-stop! It's so sweet and delicate and the leaves are slightly fuzzy and very soft.

My little jug of muscari bulbs are popping up on the windowsill, and there is a new leaf emerging from my monstera deliciosa. It's all happening round here!

We've started baking sourdough loaves in a tin to give them a more regular shapegmt BV[;'''''''''''' (lol that was Juniper's typing and I decided to leave it in!) We'll still make lumpy round loaves too but it's nice to add something else to the bread repertoire. We're thinking of making some non-sourdough bread too, my goal for the future is to make enough bread so we don't have to buy any extra from the shop for sandwiches etc.

 

Some yum soooup - carrot and sweet potato! 🍠🍠🍠🍠🍠

We went for a lovely evening walk a couple of Sundays ago and I picked a little wildflower bouquet along the way (one of my favourite pastimes). 

Some striking tulips in the garden, and our nepeta which we rescued last year and were surprised to see covered in little purple flowers now!

A snapshot of what our kitchen looks like a lot of the time 😂 

On Tuesday last week we took a long awaited road trip to Falmouth to visit my sister and our friends who live there. It was the perfect day, chatting and catching up over cups of tea and burgers in the garden, going to every charity shop in town, and ending the day on the beach of course. We even got to meet a few of the local cats, some which we knew from when we lived there! 

Wildflower bouquet, Falmouth addition:

The charity shops were bountiful! I came home with quite a few goodies such as a Noah's Ark pillowcase (I like to collect fun pillowcases), a little jug with white Juniper cats on, and a 1980s Fisher Price toy clown in perfect condition. Maybe not your cup of tea but definitely mine haha.

The tree outside our church is blossoming beautifully right now, it's a particularly vibrant, rosy shade of pink which I love every year! Any idea what kind of tree it is?

We've got more seedlings on the go...the nasturtiums are really blowing my mind, it seems like each time I look at them they have grown a few centimetres! I can't wait to enjoy their colourful flowers throughout the summer, I wonder if we'll get a caterpillar infestation like last year 😆🐛🐛🐛

A pinky red colour themed cat mirror selfie (try saying that 5 times quickly), and a fireside game of sunset giant jenga in the garden:

And I'll finish with some sleepy kitten pictures.......notice her napping on my laptop mousepad 😂 she does keep us entertained that's for sure!

Lots of love 🐝💘🌾 see you anon!