I am a NEW Mummy!

I haven't blogged in ages, I have been far tobusy adjusting to life as a new Mum to my baby girl Eva Joy Reay.
Born on the 21.10.12 at 6.04am weighing 8 pounds and 1 ounce. Life has been a whirlwind lately and I barely have the time to catch my breath.  Thankfully we are all starting to adjust to life together and things are getting easier to do now. I can't believe she is almost 6 weeks old tomorrow, time really has flown by!

my baby girl Eva Joy Reay - a few days old!

cheeky baby smile!

 I thought I should update my blog and let everyone know I am keeping my commitments to a minimum right now so I can focus on bonding and being with my baby girl, so please don't be offended if I don't reply straight away. Thanks for reading and sharing my joy!

 

Brigid Visser

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Maternity Leave Joys

Hey all, I have not been feeling myself at all lately. Least of all because of the jumble of emotions I am feeling every day (3 weeks to go now!) because of lack of sleep etc. I swear I get no sleep these days, I am up through the night so many times to visit the loo ( I can manage in the dark now without even opening my eyes!) OH and so annoying, the only time my boyfriend then puts the toilet seat down is at night!?? WHY BOTHER??? And he does it even though I tell him DON'T! Its now a habit with him.. Nobody wants to head to the toilet, with their eyes still closed, pull down their pants, and hit the cold toilet lid! That wakes you up right there!

Then, aside from frequent toilet visits, I sometimes get woken up and wonder, 'Hey, why am I awake?' and I think 'Do I need a pee? hmmm No' and I realise, someone else has woken up. The baby! By now I have learned to deal with it, switch the light on and grab a book. At the moment its Game Of Thrones, 21 days to go and I reckon I will have read the whole trilogy by the time she arrives. Good book by the way. She decides to wake up at the same times every night now so I am getting used to it, and hope that when she's here she can keep that pattern.
I hope to co-sleep with her so she can breastfeed at night, and I won't miss feeling her close by as well. My boyfriend is against this as he thinks he will roll over her, but I tell him she will be on my side anyway, far away from him.

Today I just had to say something about it all as I feel awful, have had a headcold and stomach bug for a couple of weeks now and I hope she doesn't decide to appear early as I want to be well over this. Right now it really doesn't help trying to sleep with a banging sore head and churning stomach.

AND... I have been nesting since like JUNE! Its not gone away, the whole house is transformed and I can't see there being a limit to what I want to do. Right now I am working on sewing up some cushions. But then the sewing machine I borrowed from my boyfriends mum decided to not work for me and in my sleep deprived way I just decided to go buy a new one today.

Please wish me luck, I want to get these cushions sewed asap and I am determined the living room will all match and be tastefully decadent by the time my baby decides to make her appearance.

Enough said. Here's a cute picture. 

Maggie the cat curled in a ball this morning

Brigid Visser

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My week in pictures

Maggie and Midnight licking the bowl - aww babies

splat nails, used a straw and blew the paint on

OMG friends? for all of 5 mins

35 weeks and 4 days

As you can see been busy baking and chilling with my nanimals, feeling a lot more tired these days, thank god for time off!

Brigid Visser

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Snaps taken the night of the meteor shower

I already shared these on facebook but thought I would also update my photography section on blogger for folks who aren't necessarily followers of my facebook page.

This one's for you guys!

Some snaps I quickly took at the side of the road the night of the meteor shower  (link here as well http://cr8v-design.blogspot.co.uk/p/photography.html), WISH I had been awake around the time the meteors fell though! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9559670/Spectacular-meteor-shower-over-Britain.html

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Social Media Changes

Hey, I have been catching up with a few changes of late and that has meant updating my twitter and facebook pages, and other social media,  to reflect the new look I am going for which, as you see, is also reflected in the blog.

I dont know if you guys know but Twitter changed its profile page layout so now the text you wrote about yourself kinda covers up most of the text in an image if you are using one behind the text, this text used to be below the little bit about you? Its hard to explain but I doubt many people will have really noticed a difference as most of us tend to use an old link by typing it in as a url and hitting enter, thats certainly the way I do it.

I dont know what you guys think about my new image? is the text pretty hard to read? As soon as I put it up I did think that but hoped it wouldn't matter to much, yet!

Take a look at the one I made for Argyll Chalets Twitter:

 I really like what this does for their brand but I may have to move the background so that it sits higher up or try using a mirror image of the one I am using for them so that the word Apartment isn't hidden.

Brigid Visser

contact@cr8v-design.com

www.cr8v-design.com

Professional, creative, media design from CR8:V-Design.

Contact me: brigid.visser