It's safe to say that recently, I've been a little hard to find. I was tinkering with my website earlier and realised my last blog post was nearly a year ago, and I've barely added any new photos to the site in that time either. I can feel the Instagram business gurus looking down their noses at me as I type! However, I have had a very good (and very cute) excuse in the form of a 6lb 7oz bundle of joy who arrived in late October. Baby Nell was born at home in the small hours of the morning, looking just like her big sister and filling our lives with the wonder and sleep deprivation of a newborn once again. She is terribly sweet and we feel very lucky!
Nell at 4 months. Wearing the romper I made for Immy from quilting cotton when she was a baby. It’s lovely to see it in use again!
Maternity leave is a funny one for me - I'm spending an awful lot of it thinking I should be doing something when all there is to do is cuddle a baby. My glamorous assistant (aka my husband) is monitoring my inbox and I've got a few KIT days lined up from May, but that still means a lot of naptimes to fill! As a result I've been diving into the boxes of unfinished craft projects with vigour… and getting inspired (distracted!) by new ones along the the way. I keep thinking of things I want to say, want to write about or photograph, but they don't fit the blog as it was and don't make sense on my Instagram. So you may notice a bit of a branding change at the top on this blog, or you might have come from the new Instagram, because we’re taking a bit of a change of direction on here. I’ll still write about flowers and the cutting garden and weddings; but also our homespun adventures through the year, a seasonal exploration of life in a little yellow house on the side of a Devon hill.
Winter sunrise in the valley. It’s all sorts of beautiful.