Little Girl Bedding

The current bane of my existance, besides my pelvis which feels like it is about to shatter, is finding bed linen for the babies room. As we won't be finding out the gender until the baby is making its noisy entry into the world, it needs to be gender neutral, with the ability to adapt to either a girl or boy when the time comes.

However, on my searches I found the most adorable little girl linen from Baby Lovin Bedding

It is made with Amy Butler's Modern Midwest collection in shades of pink and green. Pink and green together tend to make me swoon, so it is no surprise that I love this set.
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The Great Pram Debate of 2011

This debate will go down in history as the one that caused many long and heated discussions in our household.

On the left we have the husband who votes for the Baby Jogger City Select in black.

On the right we have the baby and I rooting for the Bugaboo Cameleon. ( I am taking charge of the babies vote given it is the one kicking me constantly)

My requirements in a pram were pretty simple, it had to be a four-wheeler, easy to steer, able to fit through checkouts at the supermarket, and ideally it would have a bassinet attachment for a newborn. We like that both prams allow the baby to either face the parent, or the world and that it was easy enough to change the seating based on our requirements at any given point in time.

We own a small hatchback, a Toyota Corolla, and space is an issue. We did what everyone suggested and took ourselves to a large baby store and tried pushing them, along with many others, around and in the boot of our car.

This is what we came up with

Baby Jogger City Select

Bugaboo Cameleon

From that, the Baby Jogger looks like a clear winner, but there are some downfalls. The frame weighs a couple of kilos more, which I could notice when lifting it up into the car. It also requires the wheel to be removed before the hatch will actually close, which whilst easy enough to do, could get annoying REALLY QUICKLY!

Although it looks like the Bugaboo takes up more room, I am pretty sure I could have packed it better. According to a bit of googling, if you put the chair in first, and then the frame, like below, it would be more compact, even with the wheels left on.

Both prams have things we didn't like. I am not a fan of look of the Baby Jogger, it seems very masculine to me. I wasn't a fan of the carry basket (not shown) on the Bugaboo. If we were to design a pram it would be a complete mishmash of several prams on the market (the Bugaboo with its light frame, the Baby Jogger with it's 17 different seating combinations, the Strider Plus with it's massive basket, the ease of folding of the Peg Perego Skate and the convertible bassinet/seat of the Silver Cross Surf).

After a week of debate, the jury is still trying to come to a verdict, however I think I will win on this one, even if it is only because I will be the one placing the order ;)
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Tragic Pages

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Let me tell you an embarrassing secret. When I was 17 my bestie and I went through a phase.

A Mills & Boon phase. Tragic I know. We couldn't get enough of them though. Clearly we were bored, and living life through the saucy pages of a book.

When I saw this framed artwork on Etsy I laughed out loud, which was rather unfortunate that I had just taken a mouthful of lemonade! Original it is.

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Front Door Progress

One thing I wanted to accomplish this year was to makeover our front veranda. I have managed to talk the husband around to my way of thinking about this project, and he agrees that the posts need replacing, the tin on the roof quite possibly needs replacing, and the house needs to be repainted in new colours.

The first step of this project was to decide on a new colour scheme for the house. I compromised with the husband on this, as he didn't want to change the base colour of the house, but agreed to change the trim colour. So after a lot of too-ing and fro-ing, I decided on

as it meant that when we replaced some guttering, we wouldn't need to paint it, we could just buy it in colorbond. Smart thinking 99!

The next step was to buy some new pot plants for the front door. I wanted some slight contrast, so chose some black ceramic pots, and planted some classic box hedge plants in them. I plan to eventually trim them and keep them alive enough to become topiary trees.

Now to paint the front door and resurface the floor.
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Shopping for Baby

Last November I went shopping online during the Black Friday sales at Gymboree, and scored Gymbucks. Now for those who aren't in the know, Gymbucks are basically free money that you get to spend during a designated sale period. Awesome, I am rewarded with more goods just for buying something.

Finally, it was time to claim my Gymbucks, in the form of $25 off every $50 I spent. I had my cart well stocked for weeks before the sale, just so I wouldn't forget what I wanted. Also made for a quicker shopping experience at work one boring lunch time.

Here is what I ordered this time around for a little boy

and for a little girl


Clearly a lot more for a little boy this time around, but that makes up for my last lot of shopping where it was mainly girl based.


PS - I am buying both genders for our baby, as I don't know what we are having. I figure with 3 friends all due within 10 weeks after I am, one of them has to have the opposite gender to my baby! Surely... Pin It

I will love you today, tomorrow and forever

Today marks the day where I brought a tear to the mister's eye for all the right reasons (and not just because I spent too much on shoes AGAIN!). I love you my dear, more than you will ever know.
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Bold Nursery

I am fascinated by sgallacher's nursery, with it's bold orange zebra rug and dark blue walls. A colour combination I wouldn't normally think of together, but it works!

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