Journal · page 13

Jasper Jennings is 12 weeks old

12 weeks ago I was in hospital falling in love with the most beautiful baby I’d ever clapped my eyes on. I’m blown away by how much Jasper has grown and how much he has learnt in…

Adventures in Pattern Making

I’ve made up two skirts now and I’m pretty happy with the pattern I drafted, though I’m going to tinker around with the back part as the darts are huge creating a bit more room…

Itty Bitty Drawings2

Wow, Jasper is having a nice long afternoon nap! Better be quick. Our backyard is quite wild on one side of the house but plain old lawn and clothes line on the other side. The…

Little Minutes

I’m trying to quickly post before Jasper wakes from his sleep (Sleep! Yay! he’s just had a 3hr afternoon nap which is a big deal as he hasn’t been too keen to sleep during the day…

Mobiles

I didn’t get Jasper’s room decorated before he was born, but I did make a mobile to go above his change table (sorry for the terrible photo!!!). It was so simple to make and…

Priority

One of the unintended consequences of breastfeeding Jasper is that my hands are idle for hours a day, so my mind is free to cook up all sorts of plans and ideas for things I can…

Baby Baby

It’s all baby all the time here at the moment. I feel like I’m slowly emerging from the baby fog. Though I wonder how we will go next week when Chris’ mum leaves… We’re gonna have…

Itty Bitty Drawings

I’ve started to feel a little bit creative again with ideas for a felting project, some little paintings and some more stitching floating around. Time and energy are in short…

Thread and Needle

I thought I’d quickly pop in here and throw up a picture of some stitching I’ve been doing recently. The cross stitch is something I started this week as I decided I wanted to…

Simple

The Birth Story

Warning: this post describes a birth and contains some information which some may find too intimate or just too much. That’s ok, I won’t be offended if you just skip it 🙂

Arrived!

We are happy announce the safe arrival of Jasper David Jennings. Possibly the most delicious baby ever! Born via emergency c-section at 6:20am, 9 May at Darwin Private Hospital.…