the day my world came crashing down

That would be today.

We got the diagnosis of Edwards Syndrome - Trisomy 18, for the baby. It is a devastating piece of news, even though we knew that there were some problems we couldnt help but hope everything would be OK.

It is a genetic disorder common (1 in 1800) in pregnancy, although unlike Down's Syndrome the prognosis is 'not compatible with life'.

As it stands, we dont know if the baby will survive until the birth, or how long after the birth. I can only pray that we get some time to cuddle at least.

6 months and still going with my blog

I signed up for a blogging workshop by Shimelle in Sept 2010. 6 months later and i am totally surprised at how much i have managed to learn about blogland.

Shimelle is running another session which suits me totally because i joined well after the course was finished and tried to plough my way through the prompts, but i find it much easier when they are sent to your email on a daily basis. That way the blog is well kept and it doesnt overload you trying to do too much at the one time.

hopefully there should be some more crafty stuff on the blog in the following weeks.

baby thomas - my new nephew

I have managed to do some pages here at the crop last night. This one is my favourite photo of Thomas, and for the moment my mum's favourite layout (but that changes like quicksilver). Luckily it meets the UKS weekly challenge of lots of white space and a bit of bling.

The next one shows photos of us the first time we saw Thomas. He was only 2 days old. It was so lovely to have a cuddle with him. I'm quite lucky to have seen him a lot over the past 2 weeks, i can hardly even believe that 2 weeks have passed at all.



This page is coming back with me so that i remember just how cute he was as a new born.



Its all his fault......

Well I took DH to the airport yesterday morning, he would have got into Turkey by 10pm local time. His last words were that he would have liked to have seen some snow.

This morning we woke up to a whole load of snow falling down. Ofcourse, DH is now sitting in a very sunny and warm Turkey. I might just post some cold white stuff off to him.

I really wanted to see snow at Christmas when i was over there, but i have to say I would prefer to be seeing snowdrop flowers than snow drops falling as we are mid March now!

home with mum

well i got home on friday, after a very fraught week. I didnt think i was going to be allowed to fly on thursday, but we made it. Kerem is here for a week and then heads back to Turkey.

I'm staying for the forseeable.

The craft show on Sunday at SECC in Glasgow was nice to get me back into the swing again, but a little disappointing in terms of how few new products and demonstrations there were. Of course, that didnt stop me spending some money.

Had lots of cuddles from my new nephew, which has been nice.

Can see blogger now i am back home again, which helps when you are trying to keep a blog up and running.

thanks to everyone who left messages on my last post. i managed to read them via the dashboard even though i couldnt access my page.

blogger blocked in Turkey as of 1 march

As of today (2nd) actually, i am unable to view my own blog and infact anyone else who blogs on blogger/blogspot.

As if there were not little enough ways to communicate with friends here, now there is one less. Typepad seems to be OK, but anyone whom i normally visit via blogger will be unavailable to me in the (undefined) future.

It is incredible that i can still post onto my blog, but i cant actually view it myself.

woyww 91

well today there isnt much on my desk as it is all packed away as i am off on my holidays tomorrow. Off to visit my mum for 2 whole weeks. I am so excited.... even more excited that DH is coming with me for a week.

In my bags there are a whole load of layouts for mum that i have posted over the past few months. Here is the last one that is still lying on my desk, soon to be packed away.

I am hoping that there will be a whole load of crafting going on that 2 weeks, and ofcourse I will be popping in to the craft fair at the SECC in Glasgow on Sunday for my yearly dose of craft goodness. So if you see a manic shopper that cant put anything down...that's likely to be me.

Hopefully i will also get some time to play with my new stash that i will no doubt come home with, and i hope to have some photos of a certain new nephew that i can start to put into pages.

What do you tend to come away with? Paper, cardstock, punches, inks???? for me i think it might be a bit of everything this year.

have a great wednesday, off to drop by and visit with some of you now...