Photo A Day April Round Up

I found this photo challenge on Pinterest and decided to join in. 

But on the 1st April I found out that this is last year's challenge. I really wanted to join in with an active photo a day so I switched to this years. As I had already posted the old one to facebook and instagram I decided to continue with both challenges by posting daily for #fmsphotoaday and a round up post at the end of the month.

This was my April 2013 based on #photoadayapril 2012...

1. your reflection

I took my photo using my Banksy print for the reflection. I feel really awkward in this photo. I'm not normally in front of my camera/iphone. 

2. colour

I love these Berol felt tip pens.

3. mail

I waited for the postman for ages but he didn't come. Luckily Ruby was playing Post Offices all morning.

4. someone who makes you happy

I obviously couldn't choose just one of them so I photographed them both :)

5. tiny

A tiny blue button next to a 1p. Taken with a fisheye lens.

6. lunch

Raw vegetables and salad with a cheesy muffin and lime pickle.

7. shadow

I cheated with this one and used a photo of Ruby and I that I took a few weeks ago because there was no sun out today. She really is my shadow and always wants to be by my side. Usually just to annoy her brother!

8. inside my wallet

My Orla Kiely purse. I call it my Mum purse because it is big and when I was little my Mum always had a big purse. It's full of receipts and coppers!

9. younger me
Me and my brother dressed as Native American Indians for a picnic in the park. Mum made our outfits including one for my dolly. If you look closely you can see Andrew's arrow that didn't travel very far! I'm guessing that we are 4 and 6 here?

10. cold
I felt cold so spent an hour snuggled under my duvet watching Prisoners Wives on the iPlayer.

11. where I ate breakfast
Jacob went on a sleepover last night. I expected a call at 10pm saying he was coming home but the phone didn't ring! Ruby and I had a relaxing breakfast, sitting on the sofa, watching cartoons and eating toast.

12. stairs
The majority of people who have visited our house ask when we are getting rid of our stairs! We have no plans to, they are one of the reasons we bought this house. As long as you start off on your right foot and keep going till you get to the top you won't fall down!

13. something I found
I didn't actually find this, Ruby did but she gave it to me.

14. how I feel today
Today I feel proud of my little man, who ran the Brighton Marathon Mini Mile. He is feeling proud of himself too. 

15. sunset

I missed the sunset tonight, luckily Jacob made this sunset badge at Hove Museum.

Half Way! I'm loving this photo a day challenge. It's like a diary. I've always intended to keep one but never find the time. Taking a photo a day is a great way of remembering what happens over the month.

16. flower
Forsythia on the way home from dropping the kids at school. I love the colour. It tells me that it is spring and it makes me miss our old front garden.

17. something you don't like
Soggy cereal!

18. hair
This should have been for yesterday when I was having a good hair day!

19. orange
It's always the oranges that are last to be eaten in our house.

20. something you drew

Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?

21. bottle

Jacob's science experiment! A weather barometer now lives on the windowsill. How long till I can recycle it?

22. the last thing you bought

The weekly shop.

23. vegetable

We eat a lot of carrots in our house.

24. something you're grateful for

My sewing machine. It keeps my hands and creative side busy! How cute is Jacob's little machine next to mine!

25. looking down

Hello Baby Bernard and Gobi!

26. black and white

Wallpaper samples. Orla Kiely Acorns and MissPrint Mountains

27. somewhere you went

Rachel's Party!

28. 1pm

Mum Cabs! Dropping Jacob off at the St George's Day Parade.

29. circle
Blue circle inside the Polka Dot Cake!

30. something that makes you sad
Ruby starting school in September. Her pre-school days are nearly over :(

My favourite photo...

...of this challenge is this one of our Guinea Pigs, Baby Bernard and Gobi. Now that they weather is warming up we are able to let them out of the garage and into the garden. I'll be honest I am not a big fan of rodents but these two are growing on me and I find it peaceful watching them sitting in their playpen eating grass. 

And that was it, April is over and now it is May. It feels like this year is flying by but when I look back at the first couple of photo's they seem like a long time ago. 

Crafty Catch Up

The kids went back to school/nursery yesterday and although there was part of me that didn't want them to go the other part was jumping up and down with excitement! Two days all to myself! I avoided the cleaning and decided to get on with and finish up some craft projects....

Just in time for spring! I made myself a scarf and some wrist warmers using my knitting loom.

Ruby now has a sun and cloud to go with her rainbow. I used yellow and white stickers to create a scallop effect on the sun and cloud and buttons for the raindrop earrings.

I'm half way through this year and last year's FatMamaSlim's photo a day April challenge. Today's theme is "my favourite colour" Yellow! I walked past this lovely forsythia this morning and it made me smile. We used to have a massive one in our old front garden that I miss. 

 A sneak peek at a little felt project I started today!

Have you made anything this week?

The Sun is Finally Shining!!!!

My windows have been open all day, the kids have been outside playing and I have got three loads of washing dry on the line!

It's a little chilly but it feels like spring might be on it's way after all. Inspired by the weather I have been tackling a little bit of the cleaning I blogged about a couple of weeks ago. This is my Spring Clean Mission:

• Organise kitchen cupboards

• Buy and label food storage jars

• Bathroom and washing bins

• Kids toys

• Cleaning cupboard

• Kids craft stuff

Last week with the help of my Mum the kids rooms and toys had their spring clean. Today I have tackled the cleaning stuff cupboard. I am so chuffed with myself, I keep opening it to have a look!
So that's two down four to go!

Before Picture:
First, I emptied everything out on the floor. We have too many plastic bags! I need to remember to keep my shopping bags in the car so that I don't forget them when I go shopping.

After:
My tidy cupboard! and the Key Hanger I found at a charity shop. I love the font and numbers on this.

It's the little things that make me happy and a bag full of line dried washing is one of them. I am rather envious of the kids having clean air dried bedding to sleep in tonight. It's a bit of a random picture I know but I just wanted to share the awesomeness of the Big Blue Ikea bag. 

I have thought about making a laundry bag so many times but I can't come up with anything better than this bag. I have about three that I use for the washing and ironing. I end up buying a new one everytime I visit Ikea because I forget to put one in the car, I have even been once with one in the boot and forgot to take it into the shop! I really need to work on my memory skills! Where was I? Oh yeah! The Big Blue Bag - The best laundry bag ever!

Today's FatMumSlim April photo a day topic is something Blue to promote Autism Awareness. Here is my bit of blue. My Bitossi Owl.