A Conversation on Pregnancy

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Me: Oh blah blah is expecting a baby

Mum: Aw that's lovely!

Me: Yeah

Mum: Did you say congratulations?

Me: No.. I think that's weird

Mum: Why?

Me: Because it's a weird thing to congratulate them on. I think you should say congratulations when the kid is 18 then it's like 'congratulations, you kept your child alive for 18 years and now it can fend for itself'.

Pretty Words

I like words. I like how they roll off the tongue and I like how the simplest of collections of them can make you look at things differently. Here are my favourite words of late.

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"Staring at the bottom of your glass

Hoping one day you'll make a dream last

But your dreams come slow and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes

Maybe one day you'll understand why

Everything you touch, oh it dies.

But you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missing home

Only know you love her when you let her go"

- Mark Rosenberg, 'Let Her Go'

Smashing

Hello there familiar face (unless you're new to this blog, in which case, hello face I probably have not seen before).

This post is about my love affair with Smash, a company that make the most beautiful scrapbooks you've ever seen. Are Smash paying me for this post? Nope. Do I wish they were? Of course.

 Anyway, grab a biscuit and get ready for some scrolling.

I got a Smashbook the year before last as an 18th birthday present. I wanted a place to document the various goings on in my life from the moment I was officially an adult and, over a year later, I still love it to pieces. It's the prettiest little thing.

The first page reads "This is my Smashbook. I started it aged 18 and it's basically going to be a place where I put all the stuff that's going to give the 80 year old me something to talk about"

I'm not always the craftiest person in the world. I almost always Superglue my fingers together whenever the damn stuff is in a 5 metre radius, but every now and again I go to Hobbycraft and have 'An afternoon in which I empty my bank account on craft supplies cuz they is pretty'.

Who else enjoys a bit of scrapbooking from time to time?