I asked Chris to take some 'baby belly' pics to mark my 32nd birthday (which is today!).   I think the bump is looking less weird now, and it's certainly grown since my last photo 3 weeks ago.

Here's another one:

The preganancy is going well, I'm taking it easy with lots of relaxing and pottering around the house.  Now when the baby moves I can physically see my tummy move around.  It's strange but I find it fairly amusing :-)

I've been working on another quilt salvaged from my shoe box stash.  I must admit I'm begining to get a bit bored with the colours, but I'll stick with it and not fuss too much.

I'm sort of itching to get into a bit of embroidery after this quilt.  I've been reading Sheila Paine's book Embroidered Textiles : a world guide to traditional patterns and I'm feeling very inspired.  

Another book I read this week was Francis Bacon's Studio by Margarita Cappock, which I got out of the library.  I didn't know a lot about the artist, but I'm glad I read it as I found it really interesting to see how he manipulated photos to distort figures and how he used sources over and over again.