Money off at Splosh

Thanks to An Almost Mrs I can am able to pass on to you a great offer for your first order of splosh. 

Splosh provides an eco-friendly alternative to most house-hold cleaners, and drastically reduces plastic waste.

Take a look at my previous post about splosh  for more info.

You can now save £5 on a starter pack of splosh with the code F9D201

 That brings the price down to around £8 for the 4 bottle starter pack, 

So if you read my previous post and thought splosh sounded like a good idea but never got around to ordering it, now is your chance hop on over to splosh.com.

4 Year Anniversary

Four years ago today I married my best friend.

We embarked on a life-long adventure to discover more about each other, serve God and find out what that means for us as we go.

This year has been our most adventurous yet. 

We went to Cambodia

Jamie survived Pneumonia despite my unsympathetic nursing, and we found out we were pregnant the same week!

We now have another person coming along for the ride.

I love you Jamie, seeing you care for Fred and managing through the tiredness has made me love you even more.

Here's to many more years and so many more adventures ( I'm not sure about any more children though ;0) )

Easy Spicy Pepper Soup

One of the reasons I love autumn, is the re-introduction of soup in to my diet. A week before Fred arrived I had a pack of red and yellow peppers, so I decided to try making soup.

It turned out really well so I thought you might be interested in the recipe, it made 4 large bowls. 

You will need approximately:

4 sticks of celery roughly chopped

5 red and yellow peppers

2 finely chopped carrots

1 chilli

1 1/2 pints of water

A vegetable stock cube

3 tablespoons of natural yogurt

a teaspoon of paprika 

salt and pepper to taste

Heat your oven to 180 degrees, while you chop and prepare everything. 

Roast the peppers until soft and slightly brown, about 15 minutes. 

Fry the celery, carrots and chilli in a large sauce pan, with a little oil.

Add the roasted pepper, water, stock cube and paprika to the sauce pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes until the carrot is very soft. 

Whizz up with a hand held blender, add the yogurt then salt and pepper to taste.  

Great British Bloggers

While Things are going to be a little quiet around here I thought I would share with you some blogs I like to read. I have been readying blogs for years, far longer then I even considered blogging for myself. But for the longest time I didn't know how to find British blogs, they didn't come up on google when I searched and to be fair I probably just didn't know enough about blogging to know where to look.

Since becoming more involved in my own blog and interacting more on twitter I have found some great British blogs, and lovely bloggers. So in no particular order this is a little run down of some of my favourite British blogs.

* Domestic Sluttery is a life style blog written by a group of cool ladies topics include design, recipes, fashion, holidays, reading, cocktails and much more. I have been reading DS for a long time now and regularly recommend it to people.

* The owl and the accordian is written by Vicky, she lives on the south coast and blogs vintage finds, design inspiration, crafts and more. Every post is beautiful.

* Kat got the cream is written by Kat (naturally), her lifestyle blog covers crafting, bargain hunting, design and other fun things. I also recently won a blog competition for a beautiful tea pot from her. It made my week!

* Little green shed is written by Lou, she blogs with beautiful photos of her family, days out, simple pleasures and design inspiration.

* A thrifty Mrs is written by El, She and her husband live frugally but also have fun with it, she shares recipes, money saving ideas and useful links and finds from around the web.

* A Saucy Stitch is written by Giddy aunt Lola, she has 5 kids, is a charity shop queen and maker / crafter of good things.

* A girl called Jack is written by Jack, who after finding her self with not enough food or money to feed herself and her child she decided to write cheap recipes and and to campaign the government for a fairer approach to the benefits system. 

Happy reading :) 

The baby is here!

I am excited to introduce you to Fred Michael, he arrived on the 3rd of October at 2.31am. After a long an arduous failed induction of labour he entered the world via c-section. He is perfect, he has Jamie's nose and feet, my chin (poor boy) blue beautiful eyes and a great pout.

We are having to take things slowly and gently, because of the c-section, which is unusual for me but just as well because so far Fred is a bit of a night owl. Jamie and I are knackered and it's only been just over a week!

I will try and blog at least once a week from now on, but it may start of slowly as I am not doing much! The arrival of Fred does mean I can cross off another of my 30before 30 challenges :)

A baby shower celebration and customised onesies

Last Sunday Rachel and Abbie organised and hosted a lovely baby shower for me.

I had a lovely afternoon, there were presents, cakes and games. 

One of the best things was customising vests, onesies and sleep suits. 

People bought various sizes of the various baby clothes. 

Rachel supplied us with templates, bond-a-web, and cool fabric.

We traced a shape on to the bond-a-web, ironed it on to the back of the chosen fabric, cut the shape out, peeled off the bond-a web and then ironed the fabric on to the clothing.

The results are pretty awesome! 

Have a look for your self...

Thank you so much Rachel, Abbie and my lovely friends for a great afternoon!

Photos from my phone

These Photos span the whole of September! Where has the time gone? 

(I totally sound like an old lady)

One of the last bumble bees of this year.

While Lucy was visiting Alison came for the day and we baked raspberry cheese cake and an awesome autumnal pie. 

I lived with Alison and Lucy during the university years, and we regularly sat on the kitchen floor together.  

My card from work, I love it! (Incase you don't know that is baby chewy from star wars). I am going to miss my colleagues loads while i'm away looking after baby.

 Beautiful sunflowers from my Ladies house group. They are a constant blessing to me :)

Red pepper soup, it tasted so nice, i may share that recipe too. I'm not a brilliant cook or baker, but i do enjoy it and its nice to share when something goes well. I have already made 3 different soups because it is autumn :)

This is the beautiful Claire showing off her hand decorated vest for my baby. I am being thoroughly spoilt. 

I have been treated to a blessing evening at my house group, which involved lovely gifts for me and baby, as well as lots of cake. Last Sunday I was thrown a baby shower which was really fun and involved decorating hundreds of vests and onesies. And next Sunday the brilliant Ladies from my church are getting together and we are having 'Afternoon tea for the mum to be' 

I better get my butt in gear and stop slobbing around in my pyjamas, I have blog posts to write!