guest post: Karis & her beautiful candles

 Hi friends. Here is the first of the lovely guest posts while I look after little Lucy girl. This is Karis a lovely friend of mine who has just created her very own etsy store. But I'll let her tell you about it.

 


Hello my name is Karis Nightingale and I am a sister, a daughter, a friend, an artist and a child of God. I love singing, freshly baked bread and my lop eared bunny Butters. I cook, I read, I paint, I create. I have a dry, complicated, sarcastic sense of humour and I can take some getting used to. But as they say, anything worth having is worth working for.

I have just opened a store on Etsy called Sans Darkness. Sans means without and I have used it in my title because I wanted to highlight that if you have one of my candle holders you will be without darkness. I am both nervous and excited about having my own store. Creating candle holders has been a hobby of mine for some time now and I am pleased to be able to share them with the world.






 
The process of opening an online store has been both time consuming and exhilarating. I have made many mistakes in the process of creating the perfect candle holders for my store. In the end I am satisfied with the final product and I hope you are too.



I have also grown closer to my brother throughout the process. Tim, my only brother, is a graphic designer and has helped me by designing the banner at the top of the page and photo-shopping the photographs so that they look as professional as they do. My boyfriend Alaric has also helped me by giving me feedback and coming with me to buy certain supplies for making the candle holders. I could not have done any of it without them.

Please feel free to visit my new store at http://www.etsy.com/shop/SansDarkness or email me at sansdarkness@gmail.com

Karis Nightingale

more of the babe

I just had to post this photo my sister took of my little baby girl.
She is such a good baby.

We had her first big outing today. (The official first was to her aunt and uncles house last night for dinner.) We went to church this morning and she was so well behaved. She pretty much just slept the whole way through with breaks for cute eye blinking and little smiles.

She is such a calm little girl. Feeding has been such an interesting and wonderful time. I'm getting the hang of attatching her and my body is getting stronger to cope with a little one feeding from it. She is such a hungry little girl and is getting fatter by the day. It's nice to see her growing from the food that I produce for her. Pretty special.

She doesn't much like the bath or having her nappy changed but is easily soothed by a cuddle. She is a very cuddly girl. She is never as happy as when she is lying on someones chest or being held tight.

She has met lots of her family and is getting used to some faces. She has lots of quality Granny hugs with my mum. They like each other. She likes seeing her aunts and uncles. (Especially her aunts.) She takes to anyone who will give her a cuddle really.

She really loves her dada. Myl has been reading The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to her. His deep voice puts her straight to sleep so she doesn't hear so much of the story but enjoys it anyway. I'm sure he can read it to her again. She knows his voice and looks around for it when she hears it in the room. His smell can calm her down and he has been such a trooper in changing nappies. He has changed way more than me.

I have had such a great time being a mum so far and I'm sure it's because I've got Myl and my mum here. This afternoon I had a looong nap and Mum had some granny time. There is always food around that I didn't have to cook, nappies changed, baths given and babies handed to me in the middle of the night. I feel so so blessed.

That's enough for now. There is so much to write about my little girl and being a mama. I'm sure I will have many a post for the next few weeks. Not to mention all the photos I still haven't taken off my camera.

Stay tuned for a sweet guest post tomorrow!

introducing the little one...

At long last our sweet baby girl was born on Tuesday at 4:17am.
One week late.

Her name is Lucy Erin Elton.

She was 3.3 kilos and 51cm long.

We had an emergency c-section but all is well and we are both healthy and happy.
I'll be writing the whole birth story soon. I'm just enjoying my new little girl and having lots of lovely rest times.