New Work Days

We are slowly settling in to the new weekly routine. This week is actually half term so I have my little whirlwind back midweek but he's been really enjoying nursery, although he finds it very tiring (conked out on the carpet there last week bless him), and I've been enjoying having the time back. 

The morning part of the routine is the worst bit I think, he starts at 8.30am so to walk there we leave at about 8am but he likes a long gap between waking up and breakfast so we are struggling a bit to get him to eat breakfast before we leave. I'm turning more and more to bags of apple rice cakes and raspberries which he can nibble on the go but it's not a particularly filling breakfast. 

Last week as we were walking it was oddly muted with a dense fog. The air was wet without actually raining and Baby F seemed a bit confused by it all, pointing at the shadows and talking about monsters. 

Having dropped him off, I spent my morning working on a new workshop project I'm developing to have at a new studio location I've discovered near to me called Juicy Lemons. They currently have mostly pottery classes but are opening up their workshop spaces to other tutors to create more of a diverse range of creative classes. I met with one of the owners a couple of weeks ago and we share a lot of the same ideas behind why people should be creative and the benefits you get from working with your hands and creating time for yourself to be creative. 

We are just organising a stitched Christmas card workshop which is really exciting and I had to make up some samples to photograph to advertise the class. Eventually there will be a couple of sizes on offer and everyone will be able to stitch a small piece in a hoop before cutting it out, backing it with felt and stitching it to cardstock for an extra special Christmas card. 

Putting together this card took me a couple of hours, so I've suggested a workshop time of 10am - 2pm to allow for discussion and stitch demonstrations but, more importantly for me, it should fit into my little nursery time-off routine! 

I have advertised this workshop on my website events page, but it's not yet up on the Juicy Lemons website to book. I think it will be by next week though so do keep checking back. There are two other workshops we have planned for next year as well which you can see more details of on my events page, but again they aren't currently available to be booked so I'll keep you posted. 

I pick Baby F up about 3.15pm so leave at just before 3pm and honestly, these photos were from the same day as the first photo in this post and it was totally different! The sun shone, the sky was, oh so blue, it was warm and the colours of the leaves just glowed against it all. Quite amazing. I do love living in England when it's like that - you can experience all weather types in just one day. 

Of course, I'd also had to allow in my day time to create monster crispy cakes for the nursery's fundraising cake sale. I got some very strange looks wheeling my tray of cakes through town in the buggy but it was much easier than carrying them and pushing the buggy along. Baby F is often so tired at the end of nursery that he can't walk home so likes to sit in it as we bump over speedbumps up the drive from the school, and then he can also sit back and chill with another snack of some kind - or whatever is left over in his lunchbox from earlier in the day.