Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News...

So I'm suffering from quite a bad case of crappy-day-itis and have been desperately searching for a remedy. Fortunately, I stumbled across something online and I am so happy with the results, I just wanted to share my secret.


This was me before:



Apply the following tonic liberally:



And within minutes you should see some improvement:

Cheer up, Charlie.

It's a sunshiney day.


This old favourite was featured somewhere overnight and I now have lots more Etsy love. A small thing, maybe, but it's made my Monday morning far less blech than it may have otherwise been. (2 hours sleep + kicking bub + squeaky fan + sore hips = crank factor of 10).

So let's just keep the sunshine coming, shall we? I've been checking out some of my fellow tweets (I am loving Twitter these days) and these are the treasures I've found.


This most delightful brigitta bracelet comes from the b-line. Loves! There's also a birgitta ring that's calling my name, repeatedly.


Is this Lapin de Lune bunny not the sweetest little creature ever? LouLou & Oscar create the most adorable critters... Sigh.


And while not really sunshiney, the sweet works of Nichole from little brown pen make me so happy, it's as good/better than sunshine anyway! I can't wait for B3 to A) be born and B) grow up enough to colour in these lovely little printable colouring-in cards. Oh, and little brown pen's blog is one of my must-reads each day. Ah, Paris...

And that brings an end to today's dream-shop. Now, for the Monday fun-ness that is:

- Laundry
- Ironing
- Cleaning up all the spilled paint from our bedroom-painting adventures on the weekend (Why be cautious when you can have your own Jackson Pollock moment??)
- Visiting the bubs-doctor this afternoon (yay!)
- Going for a swim/float
- Possibly retaking my photos... (Possibly.)

Happy Monday!
B x

Back to Scheduled Programming...

I did have a dreadful night last night, but I've bucked up this morning and feel much better.

I've already ticked off a few items on the to-do list - namely sending off my Fashion Week application (more on that in a later post, because the whole thing is quite exciting), cleaning the windows in B3's room and cleaning the house - which makes me feel immmeasurably more positive.

I also discovered that applications for the next FindersKeepers Market open on the weekend, which makes me very, very happy. I had a stall at the December market and it was one of the most successful events I've attended. The organisers just seemed to nail the demographic and got a great mix of artists/crafters there.


This is me and Cousin Cody at the end of the Saturday, where I'd virtually sold out of all of my stock. No earrings, about 5 rings and some pendants left. It was fabbo!

So I'll get my app in for that shortly and will get to planning my stock out over the next week or so. I don't want to be caught short again.

Beyond that, it's a weekend of blissful domesticity that awaits. Painting our bedroom, doing some light gardening (I can't wait to get our compost heap going and build our new garden beds and dwarf citrus orchard, but that will have to wait until B3 arrives and the weather cools a little) and we're clearing out the garage in preparation for my new studio!! YAYAYAY!! It's being built next weekend and I can't wait!! I'll take some pics to show the progress as we go.

So I may have had a glitch in the happiness radar last night but things are certainly looking up and up and up. How could they not when the sun is shining, B3's only weeks away, I'm listening to Paul Simon and it's a Friday.

B x