Shopping problems...

Well.. not really a problem more that I must not buy anything at the moment, but there is so much nice stuff out there, really summery bright with a lot of dots : ) and I really want to cheer our place up a bit, and myself for that matter, as I was preggies last summer and I'm not sure where my summers clothes are, I seem to only have dark wintry clothes in drawers. Oh well, I must look for them this weekend and see what I got before I go out spending money we don't have.

I need to buy a new pair of shoes as my old ones broke, I wanted to buy a yellow pair of converse, but not sure if they even exist in the UK, so might just buy a pair of these (a bit cheaper as well so that's good) -




It's raining today, grey and damp. This flat feel sooo small when the weather is like this, Axel is sleeping at the mo, think his second tooth is on its way so he is a bit tired and is drooling everywhere ha ha, but he is such a lovely little boy, it's just getting better and better for each week!

I would love these pillows for our sofa, would look lovely now in the spring and summer!



I feel a bit better already just window shopping a bit at home, gonna go and have a look at two houses for us, a bit too early for us to move but I want to have a look at what we can afford in the area : )

Oh, and it's going to be sunshine this weekend, I'm going to a party on Saturday night which will be a lot of fun, so all good !

Easter and Today

Had a good time with my mum here over Easter, went to Windsor one day and on the Monday the day was shining so we walked to the Marina and back which was quite a trek. So hard to have visitors in our flat, can't wait until we get somewhere bigger, it's really getting to us now.. And the neighbour upstairs have moved their living room around so they have their TV just above our bedroom so I have had to sleep with earplugs which isn't ideal, if anything, I really want to be able to hear if Axel wakes up. I must go up and ask them to turn it down a bit , but I hate doing things like that.. Just want to move instead : ) I applied for my first job yesterday, would be surprised if I get an interview, but you never know, maybe maybe. It's was a good exercise to write the application at least, forgot how hard they are to do but will apply for all interesting jobs from now on!

J's mum and grandma came over today, they brought lunch with them and then we headed out and had a look in the laines and had coffee and dessert at Jamie Oliver's new restaurant here in Brighton, was lovely and the food looked sooooo yummy, think J's mum will babysit on the 10 of May so me and J can go there and eat a 3 course dinner and celebrate our 6 year anniversary!

Cleaning with a grumpy boy = almost impossible

As my mum is coming tonight I thought I try and clean a bit today, tidy everywhere, clean the bathroom and hoover for her arrival. Axel on the other hand seemed to have a totally different agenda (or he just don't like to be around people that clean hence trying with everything he's got to distract the person - me). After having a couple of weeks where he has just been so happy and charming he decided to change today just in time for my mum arrrgggg, crying, don't want to sleep, don't want to sit and play on the mat, don't want to eat, don't want to be carried and on it goes. So why am I sitting here blogging when I should take this opportunity when he's finally asleep to clean? I feel exhausted to be frank, and all my cleaning powers have vanished. But, I did manage to tidy quite a bit and the bathroom looks spik and span and I will try and get J to hoover when he gets home.

I bought a second hand Maclaren buggy to have in the car and when I travel, it's quite nice, not new but it does the trick and it's a limited edition from a NY designer Kate Spade, who knows, it might go up in price one day, until then I will just use it ; ). Me and Axel took it for a spin around the block this arvo, he wasn't too impressed, and I think we'll have to try it a bit more before he'll give it the thumbs up.

I might not update the blog over Easter so have a fantastic Easter and make sure you eat as much eggs and chocolate as you wish, after all, it's only Easter once a year ha ah ; *

Supermarket shop...

Before we had Axel we rarely went to do a BIG supermarket shop, maybe every 3 months or so, it always cost us a fortune but we were happy leaving the store knowing that we had food for a foreseeable future. Now I go to the supermarket (ASDA today but it can vary- I'm a Sainsbury's girl myself, but a bit too expensive for my bank account at the mo, at least so I thought) maybe once or twice a month, I always seem to spend around £100, it really doesn't matter what I buy which really irritates me!! But then again, I always end up buying things that I would actually normally buy, like today for example a scale and a bowl came with me home. With this in mind I have started to wonder if it is cheaper to do a big shop with the car?? I never buy things like that when I go to Sainsbury's with the buggy (i.e I have to carry it all home by hand), maybe Mr Oliver's shop is the best in the end?? I'm very excited that my mum is coming tomorrow, hope that the weather will continue to be really nice so we can be outside most of the time, out flat is pretty small with three adults and one baby in it, and when I told mum that Axel wakes up at 5.30 each morning I could hear the fear in her voice ha ha.. as we don't have a second bedroom I'm not sure how we will solve it all yet : )

Axel on our patio (6 April 09)

The end of the tunnel and more cup cakes!

After a tough weekend with tooth ache like someone just hit you in the face, to the point when you almost feel a bit nauseous cause you are off balance as your ear is hurting of the pain(actually, I have never been hit in the face IRL, but I imagine that's how it feels like). I took full strength ibuprofen, paracetamol and codeine and still pain.. arrrggg!! For you guys who follows my blog will know that I have been on weekly visits to my dentist trying to fix a flipping hole (that I didn't even knew existed until he told me), but it's never been good and I have started to forget how it feels like to eat on both sides like a normal person, I've had enough and it's coming out next week!! I got some penicillin and some better anti-inflammatory tablets and I'm feeling a little bit better, well, it's bearable. Hope it's better tomorrow.

I made a new batch of cup cake icing with some frozen sponges from last week. I think I've nailed it!! - I'll make the actual cup cakes the day before (as they were a bit dry today after being in the freezer for a week) and then ice them on the day. And I've found the most amazing "icing" receipt, I can't take any credit for it, I found it at the my friend R's house last Friday while having lunch, she got loads of nice cook books including Nigella Lawson's Love Buns. No butter, more like soft meringue topping that melts in you mouth. We had one each today to test and now I'm just craving the other 4 in the fridge ha ha... Evil business this cake making malaky, must go for a fast walk tomorrow ; )

Nigella says that you should just take a dollop and swirl it over... must practice on the swirling bit!

Friday Show and Tell - Yellow

Västmanländskan is the host for April's Show and Tell. Today's theme is Yellow!

Axel only allows me to write max one posting a day and as I've already written one below and he has slept now for over an hour and will wake up any minute now I have decided to SHOW more than tell today. I've started to like yellow more and more, unfortunately I can't wear yellow as I look really weird in it : ) but here are some picture's I found online (click on them if you want to know where I found them).



Ohh, and isn't this bunch of flowers just lovely - might have something similar for my wedding.

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Wedding planning and cup cakes

Me and J are getting married in July after 6 years and 1 child together : ) I can't wait being married to J, I already feel we belong together, he is my best friend and I look forward to our future, more babies and travels. I can't (and don't want to) picture my life without him by my side. As we live in England (including most of J's family) and my family living in Sweden we always knew that our wedding would be slightly complicated. We started looking for places in Sweden quite a while back, lovely castles and restaurants but realised quite quickly that it would be too expensive for our economy. We spoke back and forth about different alternatives, but the only thing we could agree on was that the most important thing was that we got married. So with that in mind we decided to get married in the registry office here in Brighton where we live. A small ceremony with some drinks down the pub with a couple of friends and then a "honeymoon/ summer holiday" in Sweden in a rented cottage. All sounded good and low key, BUT.. I realised pretty soon that I didn't really looked forward to it as I felt that I wanted it different (as I hope I'll only get married once). I'm a very social person so the low key theme just wasn't for me. So the drinks with friends down the pub have now become a party for friends in a lovely function room above a pub, pints are now bubbly, snacks and cupcakes, decorations, balloons and music. I have changed my mind a couple of times with the dress (J's mum is sewing a white one for me as well at the mo as I'm not sure about the flowery dress for the England party).
The relaxing honeymoon in Sweden has changed as well. My mum started to say that maybe she could do a surprise party for us which sounded nice, until she started to ask me things after just one day. So to avoid the whole "surprise which isn't a surprise at all as I have arrange the whole thing really" we decided to have a lunch in a restaurant in Ven with my family and J's family who's coming over from England. We are then going to BBQ back at ours with drinks and mingle. So a bit of a change, but now I look forward to it soooo much I'm almost exploding. And I feel that we really got the best of both, we are going to celebrate for weeks which feels amazing and much better than spending a ridicules amount of money on one day!

After the painful production of about 70 invitation cards for both events I promised myself not to do anything handmade again, unfortunately that only lasted about a week and until we reached the cup cake booking. They charge an absolute fortune for cupcakes here in Brighton so J's mum said that maybe she (and M) could make them which is lovely, except I can't just leave it to them, no.. instead I have made some myself to get the perfect sponge and the perfect icing (not there yet, but think I know the perfect receipt now so must try it next week). I made some Swiss meringue buttercream icing yesterday(a bit too buttery for my taste) but I used a cheep and nasty nozzle from Tesco's so the decoration bit looks a bit weird so I'm now on the hunt for some nicer nozzles, oh and some scales oh and a bowl for water baths!!! Actually, maybe £1.50 per cake is starting to look pretty reasonable ha ha, we only need about 80 of them top ; )

Cup cakes made yesterday evening!