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I Have Become a Mum

I know, you may find the title of this entry a tad obvious given that Isabel is 8 months old now (holy shit...) but I am just sat here evaluating my day and it occurred to me that I am a mum. I do mummy things. Today I went shopping for 'responsible' things and didn't get sidetracked by shiny crap I don't need. I changed nappies. I made salmon fishcakes from scratch. I made conversation with 2 total strangers. I got stared/giggled at by teenagers.

I think that last one was the key to my sudden revelation. I am no longer the carefree cocky starer, I am the older recipient of the disdain shown by "hip n trendy" emo types.

Fetch me my slippers and a paper, I'm officially old.

(I was feeding Izz in case you're wondering. Unless it was my hair they were staring at... thinking about it, I did have a pretty bad hair day.)

Favourite Layouts in July

After posting about my favourite layouts in June I figured this is something I could keep doing! And so here we are, my favourite layouts this month...

Rainbow Stuff

Ashley has added a personal touch with her cartoon representations of herself, husband (I think!), and cats.

Skylish

I love the splash navigation detail in this one. It's different, but without being all "mystery meat" like graphic site navigation of the past.

Kya's Blog Thing

Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom with this one, hehe.

It's all too much

Juggling so much at the minute. Constantly teething baby (she's currently on her 4th tooth) coupled with crawling, dropping feeds and reverse cycling, plus she bit me for the first time last night :( / surprise visit from my Dad / work pressure (do I return or not? I have no choice, I can't afford not to) / websites... the q*bee, tutorialtastic still hasn't been sorted, new projects for myself and friends / money(!) my maternity pay runs out this month - I'll be getting £17 and that's it until I go back to work in November. Desperately trying to sell off old books etc so that I don't have to dip into my savings to cover the next few months.

So yeah, if I'm not posting a lot on twitter or whatever, it's 'cause I'm busy trying to extract my head from my arse :D