~ International Baby Loss Day ~

Today is International Baby Loss Day - a day particularly close to my heart after the loss of our precious Laura 6 and a half years ago. I would love you all to watch this wonderful presentation we put together earlier this year for our annual ball and remember all our precious angels in heaven.

In addition to raising funds for stillbirth research, the Stillbirth Foundation Australia also aims to increase public awareness about stillbirth. We have recently created this video which beautifully demonstrates the reality of stillbirth whilst highlighting the need for further funding and are thrilled to be able to now share this with you.

The Stillbirth Foundation Australia would like to thank all of the families and photographers that have kindly shared their photos with us in order to make this possible, as well as Emily Bird for helping us to create this wonderful video.

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One Lovely Blog

Thanks so much to Virginia from Mum Toddler Babe for awarding me a 'One Lovely Blog' award! So sweet of you... now, I just need to reciprocate by awarding other blogs I have recently discovered. hmmm so many amazing blogs, might have to give me a few days on this one.... xo

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Glitter Skulls

I bought the glitter skull candle holder from TK Maxx for £4.99 about a month ago. I love it! It was the inspiration for my glitter skulls.








I bought two "Bag of Bones" from Pound Land. Each bag contained six plastic mini skulls and six bones, and cost £1 for the bag! I painted them in PVA glue and then covered them in silver glitter. I used a spoon to spoon up the excess glitter and re-cover the skulls and bones. A 50g glitter shaker covered all the 12 bones, 12 mini skulls and 2 larger skulls. On the smaller skull I put pink beads for the eyes to give them more definition. I love how they turned out!






So, when I saw these plastic skulls in Asda for a £1 I had to buy them and glitter them too!

Have a sweet day!

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Lost in Translation

Ok, so almost all of us have typed our own name into Google at least once, whether we would admit to it or not, right? I take a macabre sort of pleasure in knowing there are 278,000 articles with my name in them, even though I know around 277,997 of them don't relate to me personally at all.

Today, I went one step further and typed my blog details in, just to see what came up. I discovered a strange reference to a site I didn't recognise. Intrigued, I probed further and discovered the following website, written in a language I think (though I am far from multilingual and can only guess) is German: www.kinderraeume-kreativ.de. 

I then discovered a very fun interpreting website, which translates one language into another. It turns out that this...

ein schönes babyzimmer, das auf den ersten blick ungeplant aussieht und scheinbar keinen gestaltungsgrundsatz folgt. trotzdem entwickelt es einen ungeheuren charme und strahlt unglaublich viel wärme und geborgenheit aus.

translates to this...

a beautiful baby room, which looks at first glance unplanned and apparently follow no principle of design. Nevertheless, it develops a tremendous charm and exudes an incredible amount of warmth and comfort from.

The site then links back to the pics of Fern's nursery on my blog! I don't know whether to be flattered that Fern's nursery has found its way onto a German children's design website... or slightly perturbed that the room is "unplanned and apparently follow no principle of design." I think I'll go with the former.

Regardless, there are some really sweet nursery pics on the site that require no language skills to appreciate. Here are a couple of my faves:

Hallo Deutschland!

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