Make Your Own Baby Birth Stats Wall Art

This week whilst I am on holiday I am passing over the blog to a few lovely bloggers, first up is Emma from Handbags To Change Bags, her blog is beautiful and a great insight into her life and her beautiful family. Anyway enough babble from me, over to Emma.

Hi I'm Emma from Handbags To Change Bags and I'm guest posting for the lovely Ellie today while she is away on holiday. Today's post is a DIY, hope you enjoy it!

I'm always on the lookout for cute ideas for my kids bedrooms and the home in general, I recently saw a lovely personalised piece of wall art with your baby's birth stats on it and thought it would be perfect for Summer's bedroom.

However when I noticed the price was £28 without a frame and when you add in the frame it was £68 I just couldn't justify paying that amount.

So I decided I'd take on a little DIY project and have a go at making one myself and I'm really pleased with how it came out!

All I did was use PicMonkey to add different texts in different colours and fonts to a white background and printed it out. I chose to design mine a little different to the one I'd seen but you can design it anyway you want.

I got the frame from Ikea and the whole thing cost me the grand total of £4!

I think it looks lovely in Summer's bedroom and goes perfectly with her room decor, I'm going to make another one for Riley's bedroom and I'm also making one for my nephew as part of his birthday present.

Thank you so much Ellie for allowing me to guest post and if you enjoyed my post then please pop over to my blog and say Hi!

XXX

A hard decision!

So a reminder letter and a talking to by some work colleagues has got me really panicky about my sons school application for next year.

The deadline is 15th January and I haven't been and looked round a single one! I feel like such a bad mummy, this is his life and future I am being blasé about! I really think I have been putting it off because I can't cope with the fact my baby is going to school!

The last few years have flown by and my time with PND really took some quality moments away from me, he is the most amazing little person I have ever met and I feel really sad that this is happening!

I know every mum and dad go through this but my heart really aches with the thought of him being in school!

I think I have found a nice one within walking distance, which is something I had really hoped for. Well I say walking distance I think I am going to be super fit this time next year. We live on one side of a huge hill the school is on the other side and a bit a long!

The next decision will be what am I going to do about work? If we can't find a school with before or after school clubs then it just won't be worth me going to work and thus my daughter won't need to go to nursery.


I think this is so sad as my son has always enjoyed nursery and I did enjoy my time in work, but for what will be about £20 after we have paid for nursery is it worth it?!?

I really can't believe I am looking at schools for my son, it really does only seem like five minutes ago that we bought him home from the hospital all small and squishy!

My house is nearly a home!

So after nearly five years of living in our house we can nearly call it a home, last weekend I decorated my sons new bedroom.

He loves it, as do I. Me and my husband have finally claimed the lounge back instead of it being full of his toys.

Today I am hoping to sort out my daughters room, poor thing is nearly nine months and still doesn't have a bedroom. I remember having my sons nursery all set up and looking pretty before he was born, adjusting and readjusting everything until the day he arrived.

I have this gorgeous set I won from Peanut and Pip on Red Ted Art's blog months ago waiting to go up on the wall and am itching to put it in pride of place, it also means I can get on and order some fabric for her curtains with some extra to send to Knot Just Jigs to make into something scrummy.

My poor old neck is begging me not to paint but I am really eager to get it all sorted and finally have a homely home.