Hi guys, happy new year to you and your families.

Lately I’ve lost my blogging mojo but maybe with the new year and all I will regain it. I’ve also been super exhausted lately. Siobhan comes back from maternity Monday, though I’m off all week and I feel a certain duty to make sure everything is up to date and in the same way she left it. I’m not looking forward to going back to my old role at all. Time for a new job me thinks. Oh to not have to work for a living!

Plenty of things have happened so I will catch you up briefly. Saran, Sean’s sister, had a beautiful baby boy on the 17th of December a full day after she was induced! Mother and baby are doing well!

Introducing Jack Patrick Milane

Sorry about the poor photograph, I didn’t take it obviously *cough* Sean *cough*, he wasn’t so happy to be photographed, but I was happy to be holding him.

The next day, a full 8 days late, Nelia Lubar entered the world! Pics are to come but she is absolutely adorable. We went round to the birthing center when she was just 1 day old and again this evening. Lisal, the new mommy, is a much better photographer than Sean so will let her photo’s do her daughter justice. She put on the hat I made for her and apparently it’s a big hit. It’s the go to hat as it fit’s so well so I’m so glad. It’s a newish pattern for a new baby hat that will stay on a wriggly babies head. Think a cross between a bonnet and beanie. I didn’t think to write down the pattern but I am going to do her another, babies grow so fast! Once I do I will share the pattern.

I’ll round off this brief post with cupcakes I made for Lisal and Lee’s New Years dinner today….

…because everyone loves cupcakes

Pssst I made those flags. Real easy, rub-offs, ribbon and double sided tape attached to lollypop sticks.

Let’s hope theres another post from me this year hehe.

Hey people!

I’m back! For like the third day this month, go me! *Waves at Adele faithful commentor XD*

I am making this. It’s Bronwen by Dawn Toussaint (Isn’t that an awesome name?). Only thing is I’m stuck. From the instructions I can not for the life of me figure out where to put her arms. I put them on and they just did not look right. I’ve also used cotton so my doll will be a lot stiffer once finished.

I will persevere and maybe update later!

National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo as its affectionately known
is this month. So I will try and make the effort to post every other day. Try being the operative word here.

So I was thinking about things I could blog about, thought I’d blog about our anniversary and realised I haven’t blogged about our wonderful holiday in Turkey!

We had an amazing time there. I think the first time you go away with someone can make or break a relationship. Luckily for us it was a lovely one.

We stayed in apartments in Armutulan just a stone throw away from Marmaris. Our apartment was on the top floor with balconies off the living and bedroom areas. It was lovely to be able to sit out there in the morning. We didn’t take any pictures of the inside, I guess because we didn’t spend too much time in there.

There are a lot of pictures so if you want to read on click…

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Starry’s back, back again, starry’s back, tell a friend.

Yes I found my camera lead so I am extremely happy to have pictures yay! AND look what I have to share with you….

See those sprinkles? They’re Dr Oetkers Barbie sprinkles. They were hard and not that tasty so not that impressed with those. Still they look pretty and the edible sugar was pretty!

From this you would assume I have masses of free time and stuff. Um, no… Work has been a bit manic and I have been very stressed :(. Baking is very theraputic though and with a lovely BF to help with the cleaning up (and eating) it’s even nicer. Works a bit of a sod of late so pretty things cheer me up. The cupcakes were for my moms birthday. Which was last Sunday, mothering Sunday for all you Americans. Take a look at the rest…

I didn’t take that photograph by the way if it doesn’t look like my usual style lol, Sean did. I love those toppers. I didn’t have any letter cutters (Now I do, thank you ebay and Nigella) nor any piping bags (grrrrr ebay seller for not sending them on time). But they were just as effective imho. Cupcakes are all me, icing is courtesy of Betty Crocker, if you’ve ever tried to make butter cream without a mixer you appreciate why I used shop bought. Doesn’t taste as nice but still yummy. Making them rainbow was not so hard. Four layers spread across a cupcake liner…

Is it necessary to do a how to?

Ok so it was my birthday 20 days ago. I’m slacking… I know. Sorry!

Apologies aside, I had an excellent birthday. Really REALLY good. Didn’t actually go out on my bday cos it was a Thursday but the OH made me dinner. Paela with chorizo and prawns, was so good! For my actual birthday I went to a local bar, was meant to be a bar in North London but so many people weren’t sure about it I scrapped the idea. My sisters came over, did my hair. I did my make up, put on my shoes and off we went. Well you can see from the pictures we enjoyed ourselves.

See that hat? I stole it :O

Awwwww!

I stole Anthony’s (unpictured) hat again this year so I now have 2 Fedora’s I doubt I’ll wear very often but are so cute! My sister and I are looking more and more different! Guess who’s older…

In crafting news I have finished my baby cord bag and I LOVE it. Even better than Sepia. I’ve named it Dora. No pics as I have been using it for a month so it’s not looking so hot tbh… It’s well loved. I still have 2 bag’s to make. Both are for christmas so cutting it fine. Are you done with your christmas crafting??