doing – have kept up drawing habit for 3 whole days!

doing – start to draw your life

Sometimes things just come into your life at exactly the right time. Discovering Michael Nobbs has been one of them… at a time when I feel like I really need to remind myself of what I like doing, Michael has launched an eBook called “Start to Draw Your Life” …you can download it for free here. This afternoon I printed it out, put the pages in plastic sleeves and went to read it in the bath, which was lovely by the way. When I got out of the bath, I drew the picture above. I enjoyed it so much that I (hereby!) intend to make this a daily habit. And in the tradition of Michael’s list-making (you’ll see what I mean when you read his blog!) here are 5 reasons why I think this is a good habit for me to develop:

1. Stop me being so goddam precious about “getting things right”

2. Drawing helps me to be present. It’s difficult to think of anything else whilst drawing.

3. It’s a way to record my life – I don’t really take many photos, and I suspect my memory isn’t very good (what did happen to my 20′s?)

4. Hopefully I’ll get better at it!

5. I really like it. And what better reason does there need to be?

thinking – decent baby furniture

So, baby is due in just over 8 weeks and we have finally started nesting! Having done some research into sleeping options for bub, we are both really interested in the benefits of co-sleeping… but don’t want the extra danger/fear of squashing little one in our sleep. I couldn’t stand the thought of putting a newborn in a room all by itself – after so many months in my cosy womb (assuming my womb is a nice place to be), I think it would be quite traumatic for a baby to be left alone…

Anyway, we found this option – the bednest. The bassinet attaches to the bed and the sides slide down so that you can co-sleep with bub in a safer way. Plus it looks good – a rarity it seems in the baby furniture market. There seems to be so little in the way of well designed furniture for baby – it’s all bloody ye olde fancy pants French provincial or heavy wood which seems really inappropriate for a baby. Of course, the Danes can be relied upon to produce gorgeous stuff… but I’m afraid I’m not going to spend the majority of my fortnightly baby bonus installments paying off a cot… how will I afford my plasma TV?

See how calm and happy and not screaming this baby is?