A much better view

I was out early this morning to go to market, and bought some lovely sparkley bits for all the windows to amuse J and to buy a magadget to keep the logs next to the fire.


I've been on Superhubby to buy a new car seat for the speedy_bambino for weeks. We finally went out today and bought the seats. Now I can see that gorgeous little face when R is driving and bebe can see me when I am driving. He has taken to smiling for the camera which his snap happy mamma loves. He can also see out the window and clearly enjoys the view very much. Every day with this little man is a joy. We also bought a mini baby gym but neither of us have enough breath to blow the thing up. So off we go tomorrow to buy a pump.

About last night

My Pullip doll Holly, tragically lost her arm while crossing the road in Naples, Italy. She has been waiting for her new body since we returned in October. The body arrived yesterday and I proceeded to perform open doll surgery. It was very stressful. Hubby had to wipe my brow and keep her anesthetized. If you have a sensitive stomach look away now... .

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don't say I didn't warn you!

Alas turns out Mistress (that would be me) ordered the wrong body for poor Holly and now a new effort will have to be made when the new body arrives.

Extreme embroidery

I had a quiet day looking mostly after my supabunnyboy. XhosaMamma took her bambino to the clinic so I was on my own. It was tough. I took him upstairs only once and had to have him lay on the bed next to me while I recovered. Heart pumping a hundred miles an hour. And then the saint arrived, XhosaMamma came in at 11:30 she really is a wonderful. She was worried because I was out like a light most of yesterday.

Anyhow found this very interesting article about Ray Materson an ex-prisoner who does some amazing embroidery, the scale of it is just mind boggling:


Materson's work is remarkable -- 1,000 stitches
per square inch in pieces measuring just 3 inches
by 4 inches --

The cuff

I've been wearing the dreaded 24 hour blood pressure machine since yesterday. I had mine fitted the same time as a woman who was so old she had newts in her hair. Really does it for my self esteem.

It's not a good looking piece of equipment and by last night it was as smelly as a hobo's armpit. I fear I messed the whole process up when I was accidentally (no really) fiddling with it and it restarted. While I had a shower superhubby offered to keep it going around his wing-wang in case it went off *eyes up*!

Anyway I peppered it with talc in the hope that the smell would dissipate and went to sleep with a strong sleeping tablet. The thing sounds like a space shuttle taking off when it measures your BP and attacks your arm like a starving anaconda. Had a lovely snooze till 04:30 when Juan started his morning sermon and found the cuff around my wrist. So much for 24 hours. It had to be returned promptly at 09:00 and superhub dropped it off for me.

I'll have to wear it again I'm sure since most of the readings were so off the charts high I'm sure they will think I broke the thing.

Beautiful Roses and rooms of gifts

I took Juan to 'Kamers vol geskenke' or translated 'Rooms full of gifts'. I did my shopping the previous day and just went back to take photos and treat Juan to a picnic. He was his usual charming self and no women was able to resist him.


The decorations of both the garden and the rooms were lovely and apart from spending way way too much money I took these photographs.





daisies and angels

a bath of pink roses

Rooms of gifts and a beautiful garden

Market season

It's market season in the Southern Hemisphere. Although the weather has been cold and wet the past few days almost all the markets are back in full swing and so many beautiful handmade things are being sold. But how wonderful is this - an online market with the most gorgeous goodies - Poppy Talk Handmade.

I am updating my bookmarks, a fantastic way to procrastinate and reacquaint myself with my favorite blogs and sites.

The only pretty thing I did today was to buy these 3 jars for the bargain price of R16/$2.40 each at Mileu.
In them are all the diet sweeties. The pink one smells like baby's breath.