Doing up our little home into a family nest...

This weekend involved Tom and I moving in some new furniture to our little home, a friend of my mums was having a garage sale, she has a 2 storey home so had plenty of furniture to sell as she is replacing a lot of her own. It was a great sale as she also had a rumpus room full of toys as she was a child carer, such good quality things, even baby O scored some new pieces at mates rates!!
            
    The kitchen dresser pictured above was what we were after to show all our beautiful pieces of china.

              Pictured above is my Carltonware Rouge Royale set that I bought from a local antique store a few years ago,this now has a new home on the kitchen dresser!

   A new corner in our home, new armchair to curl up in next to our new lamp and read country style magazine!!

                      A find for Baby O , a playgro playmat, with so many toys to stimulate hand/eye coordination.

This pic is for my blogger friend Jennifer from plushpussycat, can you spot the congratulations card you sent me Jen. Its also good to be able to now diplay some finds for baby O such as the childrens typewriter, toy phone, my frankie magazines, noddy books, beatrix potter books,a lot of the childrens books are extra special because they were mine  
                                 Till next Blog, and hopefully I have more pics of new pieces of furniture/ china items for our home! I am sure I will have fun looking for new pieces to make our home a nest for a little family!

                             Kate xxx

A mixture of Xmas and baby goodies...

It's been a little while since i have gotten around to doing another blog, the flu annoyed me for a few weeks!

    I thought I would start off with a lovely present all the way from America off a lovely fellow blogger friend, Jennifer Rydell from Plushpussycat sent baby O'malley the Peter Rabbit which she found on one of her vintage finds, he is an original peter rabbit and Tom and I are so grateful, thankyou so much Jen, it was such a lovely and most thoughtful thing of you to do that it brought a tear to my eye

    This is the beautiful congratulations card that Jen also sent to us, she makes them herself and does such a great job, we will treasure the card in baby O'Malleys baby book, thanks again Jen xx

    We love Peter Rabbit so much that he is starring in baby O'Malleys xmas stocking that my mum made!!

 

            I came across this baby carrier/ sling on an oppie find! the little doll in it is one of mum's for her daycare children!!

        My sister has bought me this baby bath-Fisher Price, I am very lucky and spoilt by my sister with all the pressies that my sister buys for us and baby Omalley! Tom and I want to make my sister godmother.

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     Because Tom and I have a small unit we thought a tiny tree for the mantle would be perfect this Xmas!

             Mum made Tom and I this lovely Xmas bunting for the unit also....

              I was lucky again this week to open some xmas pressies early! my good friend Moira gave me this book! it really touched me as it's such a thoughtful gift to have thought of my pregnancy :)

                    Moira also bought me these beautiful teapot earrings for xmas, arnt they the sweetest!! I love them so much!

    I even managed to finish off an order for some crochet candle jar covers this week...

      

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Xmas

I thought I would leave you on an extra special note that we got to see Baby O'malley at 13 weeks last week!!

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year

 xxxx