November Photo A Day Challenge

I take so many photos on my phone every day so I love the photo a day challenge. For me it makes me look at the world around me differently and I love the look of my photos once I have applied a filter in Instagram! 

I have a wonderful friend who has posted a photo a day every day on Facebook this year. I admire her staying power and look forward to her daily photo post every night. While a whole year may be too much of a challenge for me at this point in time, I can do a month! I know I can! I did it last June! So as the end of October approached I looked up the November challenge list at fatmumslim and thought I'm going to do this again. 

I usually post my photos via Instagram (search pinchey) and on Facebook but I thought I might share some of the stories behind the photos here this month.

Today I was all ready to take a photo of Harper eating his blueberries or the blueberries themselves but alas this didn't happen! My little man loves his blueberries so they were 'all gone' (to quote Harper) before I could grab my phone!

Instead I took a photo of my incredible cherry tomato plant when I snuck out to hang washing on the line during nap time. This is my first go at growing cherry tomatoes and I can't wait until they ripen up!

I suppose the moral to the story is although I have ideas about the photo I could take for each prompt this initial thought rarely ends up being the final shot!

Justine xxx

Hello again

It's been a long time since I was here but a few very crafty weeks and reading some amazing blogs has inspired me to start blogging again!
The last two years have been spent nurturing my little man Harper.

We have had a ball learning from each other, with lots of laughter and tears and so much fun!  Our days have been spent at swimming lessons, Baby Bounce at the library, catching up with friends at mums group and attending physio to help correct Harper's low tone and torticollis.
I've learnt to crochet and knit while breast feeding or holding my boy and discovered the joy of stealing half an hour of nap time to finish my sewing projects.
Over the last month I have also rediscovered the joy of completing small beautiful crochet projects thanks to two washer swaps hosted by Jellywares.  I'm excitedly waiting for a lovely washer to turn up in my letterbox! Here is the washer I sent off to my secret swap partner today!

Scalloped potholder pattern can be found here

What have you created lately?

Justine xox